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Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Re: Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Post by nachtigall »

gmurphy wrote: post #17

This is a great use of Chromium! Storytime! When we started designing Chrome back in 2006, and despite having spent the past year working on Google's Firefox team, my favorite browser was iRider, which was an IE shell with tree-style-tabs. It was too power-user for what we were going for, but some of the concepts (pinning) live on in Chrome today.

> It was too power-user for what we were going for

Chrome might as well support the Sidebar API to make this possible like Firefox will do with Tree-Tab-Style Add-on iirc. I read a bug report once at the Chromium bug tracker saying roughly "Sidebar API wont be implemented because UI needs to stay simple".

Re: Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Post by jkeat »

heywire wrote: post #22

Completely unrelated, but I just had to comment that I love the style of this webpage. Those double-line borders take me back to my days of writing toy programs in Clipper.

Yes! It reminds me of some sites listed on http://brutalistwebsites.com (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517491)

Re: Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Post by agumonkey »

CharlesW wrote: post #15

I love this way of managing tabs and windows! Today I approximate this by using Chrome and the under-appreciated Tabs Outliner[1] side-by-side. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

most functions aren't free though

Re: Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Post by johansch »

gmurphy wrote: post #17

This is a great use of Chromium! Storytime! When we started designing Chrome back in 2006, and despite having spent the past year working on Google's Firefox team, my favorite browser was iRider, which was an IE shell with tree-style-tabs. It was too power-user for what we were going for, but some of the concepts (pinning) live on in Chrome today.

I wish you guys would build a multiple rows of tabs UI, like Opera for desktop had. It was self-balancing (since you would eventually run out of browsing space), but in a better way than having everything just made tiny per column.

The one UX challenge you would need to solve though, that Opera did not, is how much horizontal space to use per tab, after it gets cramped. No-one would be happy with any particular default...

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

Bubbles sound like a really great feature! I'll be waiting on a Mac version too so maybe this already exists - but it'd be awesome to be able to pin domains to bubbles so they always open in that bubble. Then Facebook can have their own bubble and can't see anything even if their scripts/buttons get through ublock.

Re: Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

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Post by sparkie »

bradhe wrote: post #3

What problem is this solving exactly?

It's solving the problem that Firefox has nuked the tree-style-tabs browser extension in FF57. It also highlights a good reason to write a separate browser as opposed to implementing it as an extension for one of the big player's browsers, because you can guarantee they'll break your extension within 3 years.
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