Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

Ehhh.. seems it is closed source, and if so, I am not exactly happy to try it at all...

Browser, handling so much important stuff, being closed source is a bit of... just no.

The rendering engine is Chromium so… that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. At least for this usage: it's a browser for web development, not for everyday use.

Happy to see this here on HN. I usually get the sense Chrome Inspector new features seem to be inspired with what Polypane usually already offers.

Is it you that audit the code or just having a piece of mind with the thought: "Someone MUST HAVE looked at that code and if I haven't stumbled upon any bad press, probably this is good to go!"? Maybe you are running some automated tools that identifies whether particular software accesses data it doesn't have to or makes network connections etc?

Something being open source doesn't automatically mean it is secure. On the other hand, any software running on your pc requires you to put trust in the developers. I think it would be easier to just setup monitoring (like preventing outgoing traffic or identifying DNS lookups etc) and limiting permissions on what particular software can do, be it black or white box. White box of course allows running some analyzers, but... do any non-contributors actually do it?

I remember seeing some tool here, don't remember - was it Microsoft made or what? That scanned the code and tried to identify what accesses software makes.

I don't mind paying a subscription for a quality product but 60USD a month is very excessive.