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Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by IanS5 »

fctorial wrote: post #50
0x_rs wrote: post #38

The "lossless tree history" is an amazing feature to have. I have yet to find a modern, usable replacement for the Norwell History Tool XUL extension for older Firefox versions. It allowed one to see browsing as it happened in a logical, orderly timeline instead of a collection of URLs and their last accessed value, so that you could see for example what webpage led to another. I wish this project success for allowin…

You can emulate that by opening tabs only in new tabs. It works fine for <10 tabs.

This + tree style tabs works pretty well for me. It’s kind of a clunky system. I tend to end up with a _lot_ more tabs than I need but it’s nice that the hierarchy in tree tabs shows which site a new tab was opened from, even if I’m not using the original site.

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by opan »

0xCMP wrote: post #20

Wish this were easier to download since it's more common to use Brew now. Very excited at the idea of having fast fuzzy switching of tabs. I wish more things operated like that.

Can be installed from Guix which can be installed on other distros. (but not sure about macOS)

Re: Nyxt Browser

#73

Post by Cloudef »

boogies wrote: post #35
danShumway wrote: post #27

Nyxt seems amazing, but it's hard for me to imagine using a browser without Ublock Origin. I understand that it doesn't really make sense for everyone to support webextensions, and it's a huge amount of extra work, but it's just a huge barrier to adoption. It's hard to trust the smaller browsers to keep me private online if there isn't something that gives me that same level of control over blocking. And there's a hu…

WebExtension support is ‘on their roadmap’ (thanks dang for the discussion and so much else): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972374

WebExtension support might make me consider this over qutebrowser.

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by Haarisgrey »

Of course we got people like this!. I smoke and I’ve been a smoker for years. Most of the time I am surrounded by people who do not smoke at all. Doesn’t amaze me. I have some close friends, we hangout together international;y and vacation parties but they both have never smoked weed and I am a regular smoker and this thing doesn’t affect our friendship at all. It’s not about something being legal or illegal. If a thing is facilitating you either way it is totally okay for the other person to use it. I started using it for my chronic pain and eventually ended up like this. https://www.weedmarket420.us/ Being a marijuana enthusiast I keep on researching for good material and here I came across 5 new researches! Have a good day!

Re: Nyxt Browser

#76

Post by pasdechance »

Any individual or group of people that task themselves with making a browser deserve some sort of accolade. What I appreciate here is the minimalist approach and similarities to qutebrowser, uzbl, dwb and probably others.

No uBlock Origin is not a deal breaker for me. Even with ubo on and JavaScript blocked the web is bloated as hell. I feel bad for all the folks who work on these projects because they need to deal with the same comments over and over again. That doesn't help the project.

So, hats off to Nyxt.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#77

Post by aidenn0 »

christophilus wrote: post #30

This looks amazing. I've never used Common Lisp how common is it (heh heh)? I really enjoyed hacking around in Clojure, so I may have to pick it up. I'd love to hear from anyone who's done serious Common Lisp work. Why'd you choose Common Lisp vs any alternative?

It's just a great balance of dynamicism and pragmatism.

I can redefine a function without restarting, and then get assembly level profiling of a benchmark faster than a typical C++ program can link.

Most of the features that made lisps unique when I started learning lisp have been adopted by modern languages, but the debug tooling and dynamicism in a compiled language are both rare.

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by sva_ »

ekianjo wrote: post #21

Looks like qutebrowser in many ways. https://qutebrowser.org/

It also remindes me of Tridactyl[0], which promises to bring vim shortcuts to firefox. I tried it for a while but found that I just enjoy using the mouse more to explore the web, even though I'm mostly a keyboard-only user on the rest of my system.

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by LockAndLol »

cassepipe wrote: post #24
alrs wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run Firefox myself, but you can't really blame developers for not wanting to deal with the whims of Mozilla.

I am looking for info. Why is Firefox web engine no the go to choice for foss projects? It is not embeddable or just really complicated or or what? If so are they making any progress towards more adoption?

Mozilla is not very developer friendly. Gecko uses a two decade old method of RPC, the lib interface (XPCOM based on Microsoft's COM) is about the same age, the documentation hasn't been updated in a decade even though the code evolved, and I've heard from 2 employees directly that it's not important to them.

It's not really a surprise that gecko isn't the primary choice for browser developers.

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