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Show HN: PolyBrowser 1.0 – A new way to browse the web. What do you think?

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Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser 1.0 – A new way to browse the web. What do you think?

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Post by digitalcreate »

We’re proud to announce the “Version 1.0” release of PolyBrowser, which represents a culmination of years of work combined with community support and feedback. We feel that latest release brings together the speed, features and user experience needed to successfully introduce PolyBrowser to the world.

For those who are new, PolyBrowser is a “Panoramic Web Browser,” meaning that it stitches your websites together, side-by-side, like a panoramic photo. You can zoom out to see all of your websites at once, or zoom in to see the details, plus much more. PolyBrowser enables you to browse faster by breaking free of the limitations of current tabbed browsers.

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser 1.0 – A new way to browse the web. What do you think?

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Post by digitalcreate »

mapimopi wrote: post #4

Wow, this is most definitely interesting! Is it optimized, though? Are all tabs active at once? Also, I wonder, is this idea original or was there any attempts at making something similar to this before?

Yes, it's optimized for running multiple websites simultaneously. All tabs are visible and running, but whatever you click on becomes the "active" tab, which helps with resources. Also, non-visible tabs aren't rendered by your video card.

We didn't base this designed on any previous ideas. There have been some other attempts to solve similar problems (tile tabs, etc) but nothing that we felt quite "hit it."

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser 1.0 – A new way to browse the web. What do you think?

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Post by conradk »

Looks interesting. Wondering about the performance of it. But it definitely looks cool to have tabs next to each other instead of individually. I tend to have two windows open a lot of the time, but the current browsers don't optimize this use case.

As I'm mainly a Linux user, I'm wondering though: is a Linux build planned (in a near future) ?

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser 1.0 – A new way to browse the web. What do you think?

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Post by digitalcreate »

conradk wrote: post #9

Looks interesting. Wondering about the performance of it. But it definitely looks cool to have tabs next to each other instead of individually. I tend to have two windows open a lot of the time, but the current browsers don't optimize this use case. As I'm mainly a Linux user, I'm wondering though: is a Linux build planned (in a near future) ?

Definitely! For the first release, we had to focus on the biggest bang (Mac/Win) but Linux is coming (as soon as we can).
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