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You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by zx8080 »

Mistletoe wrote: post #4

If I had to guess, Google will only change Chrome in ways that make it more money. Browsers could do all kinds of awesome things but Google isn’t going to do any of it if it interferes with sending people to ads. It would be kind of nice if the majority browser wasn’t owned by the people selling you ads.

Maintaining Chromium takes at least around $1B annually. This involves playing around with all that shiny new standards to pass the unneeded stuff together with needed one to make sure a browser engineering does not need less than that sum. Why? Because if it's cheaper then anyome could make browser. And allow it ignore ads.

DRM (or hardware attestation) is the key to the market now.

It's actually very clever: once banks start blocking non-DRM browsers, that's a game over for all opensource and competing projects. The browser (and therefore the internet for most of the population) will then be controlled by the largest ads corporation in the history.

Sad, but this kind of an entrenching seem to go very quick and very well in the mobile land (see second part of the comment [0]).

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38124214

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by agg23 »

DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

If you're a Mac user, Arc Browser does exactly that, at a configurable time interval. I have too many long running projects, so I don't like Arc for precisely that reason (and the vertical tab display doesn't scale well when mobile).

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by clouddrover »

DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

> A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable.

Yeah! It'd be like a way to easily see where you're up to in a book but for the web! They should call this feature "bookmarks".

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by ff2400t »

DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

Firefox on Android have options for those. You can configure when tabs get automatically closed, and tabs get automatically moved to an Inactive section after two weeks of not opening them.

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by makeitdouble »

bee_rider wrote: post #9

I’m not sure exactly what the proposal is, but a server in ever web browser so you could host, like, a little tiny social media and file sharing site could be nice.

But then wouldn't you want to sync it between your devices ? Wouldn't it be nice if your tiny social media site was available while you're on vacation at the beach ? Would be also convenient to have it in some place with a cheap and plentiful internet connection ?

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by charlie0 »

DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

Searching history almost never works for me.

1. The page titles don't often align with my search terms. 2. Most of the history is clutter of Google searches and other noisy stuff I don't care about (as you've mentioned).

To that end, I've been using readwise or raindrop to great effect. I can save the pages I really care about and then organize them as needed. I don't really believe in the whole "I need 100's of tabs open" model, get some help y'all.

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by charlie0 »

agg23 wrote: post #12
DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

If you're a Mac user, Arc Browser does exactly that, at a configurable time interval. I have too many long running projects, so I don't like Arc for precisely that reason (and the vertical tab display doesn't scale well when mobile).

I've been using it for a while, but it's a free product, so I can't help but wonder what kind of data they are siphoning off me to sell. Of course, Chrome does that as well, but it's a mega company and I trust them from a security perspective more than Arc.

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by bee_rider »

makeitdouble wrote: post #15
bee_rider wrote: post #9

I’m not sure exactly what the proposal is, but a server in ever web browser so you could host, like, a little tiny social media and file sharing site could be nice.

But then wouldn't you want to sync it between your devices ? Wouldn't it be nice if your tiny social media site was available while you're on vacation at the beach ? Would be also convenient to have it in some place with a cheap and plentiful internet connection ?

I’m sure it could be hosted on my phone.

Bandwidth-wise, it should be fine to host over the cellphone network, I’m not very interesting, I’m sure I’d only get one or two visitors a week.

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by julianeon »

Curiously I fall in between the two groups he describes.

I usually have about 3-4 browser windows open, each in its own workspace (I'm on i3) - basically its own screen.

In each one I have about 5-15 tabs open. That's about the limit of what I can read at a glance to quickly flip between them.

Periodically I close a few. That's how 50% of the tabs get closed.

The other 50% go when I declare 'tab bankruptcy.' If a window has been at the tab limit for a couple days and wasn't compelling enough for me to act on before, I'll close all its tabs. If I didn't take notes about it or process it in some way, too late, gone now.

I actually do take screenshots of some of my tabs, full page screenshots, which I think in practice is my 'bookmarking' system. I title the file with what it's about - say, "shadcdn.png". Now it's 'saved', in theory anyway for me to look at at some undefined future date (no hurry).

That's my system, which works well enough.

Re: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

clouddrover wrote: post #13
DennisP wrote: post #10

A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. History search helps a bit but that includes all the tabs I ended up not caring about. If I didn't close the tab myself, then assume I'm modestly interested in it.

> A big improvement for me would be if the browser just archived and closed old tabs after a few days of not getting focus. Then made the archived tabs searchable. Yeah! It'd be like a way to easily see where you're up to in a book but for the web! They should call this feature "bookmarks".

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