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Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by mod50ack » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:52 AM UTC

gregoire wrote: post #22

Full text history search.

Through caching pages? Fetching on the fly?

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by mod50ack » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:53 AM UTC

exodust wrote: post #30

A browser where the security updates aren't married to "interface enhancements". Just give me the security updates for the version I have, because I don't want your designer's latest idea of what a browser should look like, and unwanted new features forced down my throat with the security updates. Choice about what new features to install - much like Windows updates, would be nice. At the very least provide ways to k…

Keep a separate UI and backend component and this should be trivial.

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by devbug » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:53 AM UTC

nitin_flanker wrote: post #16

I want a web browser that let me open multiple accounts of a similar site at once.

You can do this in Chrome, already.

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by V-2 » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:55 AM UTC

hadrien01 wrote: post #19

zkirill wrote: post #6

The reason why I originally switched from Firefox to Chrome was because Chrome was minimalistic and very, very fast - a chrome for the web. Now I'm seeing Chrome become bloated, and slow. On top of this, it's now trying very hard to identify me by asking me to sign in with my Google account. I want my next browser to make me forget that I'm using a browser in the first place, and also to not care about my identity.

Why not Opera? The new Opera is Chromium with what I think is a better design[1] that respects your OS[2]. You don't have to sign in to sync, but you can if you want. It's not open, but they're not an ad company. And finally, it's said to be faster than Chrome. [1] I prefer Firefox so I use the FxOpera theme [2] Well, it tries its best on Linux (unlike Chrome), but it's near perfect on Windows and Mac OS

Personally I don't use Opera because it doesn't let you customize mouse gestures. They consider it too geeky a feature :) http://i.imgur.com/fDSjYZq.png

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by OnleMeMeMe » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:57 AM UTC

Bookmark sidebar as in Firefox (the thing I miss most in Chrome)

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by sup » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:58 AM UTC

hadrien01 wrote: post #19

zkirill wrote: post #6

The reason why I originally switched from Firefox to Chrome was because Chrome was minimalistic and very, very fast - a chrome for the web. Now I'm seeing Chrome become bloated, and slow. On top of this, it's now trying very hard to identify me by asking me to sign in with my Google account. I want my next browser to make me forget that I'm using a browser in the first place, and also to not care about my identity.

Why not Opera? The new Opera is Chromium with what I think is a better design[1] that respects your OS[2]. You don't have to sign in to sync, but you can if you want. It's not open, but they're not an ad company. And finally, it's said to be faster than Chrome. [1] I prefer Firefox so I use the FxOpera theme [2] Well, it tries its best on Linux (unlike Chrome), but it's near perfect on Windows and Mac OS

>but they're not an ad company

I got bad news for you

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by moviuro » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 8:58 AM UTC

devbug wrote: post #33

nitin_flanker wrote: post #16

I want a web browser that let me open multiple accounts of a similar site at once.

You can do this in Chrome, already.

Could you elaborate, please? (link, pointers?)

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by cJ0th » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 9:00 AM UTC

1arity wrote: post #20

See the history as a tree, not as a list, so branch points can be preserved and you can navigate back over everywhere you've already been. A detailed development roadmap. Privileged browser Apps and Extensions working on mobile. C'mon, it's 2015! ( no PhoneGap required ) An automation API. The same really committed team who optimized V8. Source on GitHub ( not necessarily all of it mind, some can be privileged access…

This may be not exactly what you are looking for but there is a session management tool for firefox. It allows you to save/restore the tabs (and their history) of a session.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/session-manager/...

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by OnleMeMeMe » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 9:00 AM UTC

hadrien01 wrote: post #19

zkirill wrote: post #6

The reason why I originally switched from Firefox to Chrome was because Chrome was minimalistic and very, very fast - a chrome for the web. Now I'm seeing Chrome become bloated, and slow. On top of this, it's now trying very hard to identify me by asking me to sign in with my Google account. I want my next browser to make me forget that I'm using a browser in the first place, and also to not care about my identity.

Why not Opera? The new Opera is Chromium with what I think is a better design[1] that respects your OS[2]. You don't have to sign in to sync, but you can if you want. It's not open, but they're not an ad company. And finally, it's said to be faster than Chrome. [1] I prefer Firefox so I use the FxOpera theme [2] Well, it tries its best on Linux (unlike Chrome), but it's near perfect on Windows and Mac OS

Trying Opera now, turned off after 5sec b/c it uses an 'installer' in OS X instead of drag&drop to apps.

Re: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

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Post by kbody » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 9:01 AM UTC

Scalable tab management. Being able to (name) group them without restrictions and being natively implemented on the browser without separate screens etc.