I am a longtime very “Mac person” and don’t like non-Cocoa / standard Mac UI apps, but I used Min for a long while. I went back to Safari once Cloud Tabs stabilized, but Min is just incredibly lean, fast, and reliable. Big fan — and I may yet go back!
Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly! Or Safari of course, it's really a great browser if one's on the Mac.
I switched to Safari last year. The battery life improvements over Chrome makes it worth. It’s been a solid browser experience and I haven’t gone back to Chrome for anything. I wish I could add Kagi as a default search.
Which Adblock do you use?
Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
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#114A browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!
The advantage of Min would be the UI, which I find quite appealing myself.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could find a add-on to get close to that. I used one for Firefox in the late 00s that gave a similar minimal effect, just not as extreme.
Today browsers are one of the most important pieces of security software on our machine. They have a huge surface area, act as a sandbox for gobs of untrusted code and many of us conduct our most sensitive work in them (online banking etc). I'd be hesitant to use any browser that doesn't have the team behind it to quickly manage threats and maintain high quality code.
Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
#115From reading the headline, I was hopeful that this would be one of my most desired apps that doesn't exist yet: a browser that renders pages in Reader Mode, but all the time.
Unfortunately this is just a regular browser with "minimal" only meaning practically no UI.
Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
#116Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png
Just... give Firefox a shot people I did. But the Firefox UI is still very Windows-centric, and doesn't feel like a real Mac program at all. But the big reason I don't use it is that you can't define how to switch from tab to tab. Every program on my Mac from Safari to Nova to VS Codium to my database manager allows me to switch tabs with the standard macOS Keyboard Shortcuts settings. So I use the same keys to switc…
That's absolutely baffling, I had no idea. I've been lucky in that my muscle-memory-trained tab switch shortcut is the one that Firefox uses (Cmd+Option+arrows) and I apply that to every other app on Mac.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
They didn't say "fork of Electron", rather Electron is essentially "Chromium - browser UI" so they are saying there is a simplification to be made in an app that is "Chromium - browser UI + browser UI"
> They didn't say "fork of Electron" Flagging that the phrase "this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron" is ambiguous between "this shouldn't be a fork of Electron" and "this shouldn't be Electron".
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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
#118All software products start like this - minimal, less memory, etc. Wait for a few months and things go south. Sorry, doesn’t excite me.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I switched to Safari last year. The battery life improvements over Chrome makes it worth. It’s been a solid browser experience and I haven’t gone back to Chrome for anything. I wish I could add Kagi as a default search.
If you use Kagi for search, I'm assuming you've used their Orion browser [0], where you can set Kagi as default. Any reason why you didn't like it? [0] https://browser.kagi.com/
I use kagi and had not even heard that they have their own browser. Why would why use that over one of the "big three" (FF/Chrome/Safari) with serious corporate security teams backing them?
edit: Okay so it's webkit based, mac only, with built-in adblocking, which sounds nice, but honestly the idea that it can easily install extensions from both chrome and firefox sounds like a security nightmare to me.
The fact that the only mention of security in their FAQ is to conflate it with privacy
"Most browsers regularly "phone home" dozens or even hundreds times. Each request poses a security risk"
is a red flag IMHO
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
The advantage of Min would be the UI, which I find quite appealing myself.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could find a add-on to get close to that. I used one for Firefox in the late 00s that gave a similar minimal effect, just not as extreme. Today browsers are one of the most important pieces of security software on our machine. They have a huge surface area, act as a sandbox for gobs of untrusted code and many of us conduct our most sensitive work in them (online banking etc). I'd be hes…
Sadly, modern browsers don't allow add-ons to significantly alter the UI, so you'd never see an extension like this today.
You can do some neat stuff with userchrome in Firefox (not as an add-on) but it'll break after basically every update. There's no infrastructure in place to update the userchrome in sync with the browser, and Mozilla appears to be hostile towards the whole feature.
There are decent reasons for all of this, but it means the only way to experiment is to basically make your own app, as Min did.