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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?

#31

Post by geographomics »

I like the idea you've developed here, it's a really interesting take on the multi-page browser interface.

However after testing your browser, I think I'm probably not your target audience as I primarily use a rather old laptop with trackpad only (no mouse) and a screen that isn't touch sensitive, which didn't lend itself to an easy experience of the panning and zoom controls - right-click and drag is unwieldy for me regardless of the target software.

Apart from that, just a minor comment on your website code - the Google Fonts stylesheet link element should reference the https rather than http link. Otherwise Chrome refuses to load it: https://i.imgur.com/GaW3Vay.png.

Also this is possibly a transient Cloudflare problem, but I received this error on first visiting the website: https://i.imgur.com/inugvt0.png. It resolved itself upon refreshing the page.

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

#32

Post by digitalcreate »

andegre wrote: post #25
digitalcreate wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We haven't experienced that issue, even behind corporate firewalls, but will look into it. Thanks!

Anything logged on my end that I could send to you? (Edit: can't navigate to your Feedback/Support page either)

If you could send screenshots of the error, that would be perfect. Send to (email removed).

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

#33

Post by andegre »

digitalcreate wrote: post #32
andegre wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything logged on my end that I could send to you? (Edit: can't navigate to your Feedback/Support page either)

If you could send screenshots of the error, that would be perfect. Send to (email removed).

email containing screenshot is en route.

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

#34

Post by gespadas »

digitalcreate wrote: post #10
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).

Nice! I hope the linux release don't take so long.

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

#35

Post by digitalcreate »

geographomics wrote: post #31

I like the idea you've developed here, it's a really interesting take on the multi-page browser interface. However after testing your browser, I think I'm probably not your target audience as I primarily use a rather old laptop with trackpad only (no mouse) and a screen that isn't touch sensitive, which didn't lend itself to an easy experience of the panning and zoom controls - right-click and drag is unwieldy for me…

Thanks for trying PolyBrowser. We were shooting to make PolyBrowser work even on setups like yours (trackpad, no mouse). You can still use Ctrl +/- to zoom in and out, and Control Tab to switch tabs, plus drag with the right mouse button. Thanks so much for the screenshots of those issues!

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

#37

Post by k__ »

digitalcreate wrote: post #22
chris-at wrote: post #20

I couldn't find a license. Is it open source?

Hi chris-at, the open source license is discussed on our website here: https://polybrowser.com/faqs/where-can-i-download-the-source...

So it is open-source, but the poly-specific source can't be modified, just reviewed?

Interesting concept.

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

#38

Post by nickysielicki »

I'm kind of a broken person, I can't use a web browser without getting distracted if it doesn't have vim bindings. This kind of browser really doesn't lend itself to that.

I don't see how this browser will ever suit me or people like me, which is kind of a problem; how do you expect random non-techhy people to discover this if the techhy people don't move first?

I do like the idea. I find myself wishing I could do a vsplit/split in pentadactyl all the time... So much so that I've considered moving to something like surf with i3. But it's not worth it because none of them are polished enough.

I'd like to see Mozilla really take a stab at integrating pentadactyl-like behavior into their new development browser they're creating. One thing that's really interesting to me is that in recent years (~5ish) we've seen a real split in terms of the browser that developers prefer. I think someone can take that market if they did it well.

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

#39

Post by TD-Linux »

andegre wrote: post #21

Any site I try to navigate to throws the error that the site isn't trusted (gmail.com ???). I click the "Add Exception", and then nothing happens. I'm not able to open ANY website. Love the concept, hopefully you can get this bug worked out. It's probably because of my companies EXTREMELY strict firewall and proxy...

Your company is man-in-the-middling all of your HTTPS connections. They probably have their own certificate for their MITM-ing proxy installed in your operating system or browser's trust store. This browser is not using that certificate.

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

#40

Post by TD-Linux »

cyborgx7 wrote: post #23
digitalcreate wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gecko. It's based on Firefox.

So it should be open source, right? Wasn't able to find anything on their website.

Yes, all the parts that are MPL licensed (the vast majority of the browser, minus their frontend) need to have their source code released. As far as I can tell, they are currently violating the license.

EDIT: Found the source code release here, so they are fine: https://polybrowser.com/faqs/where-can-i-download-the-source...

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