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Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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Post by polysuite »

We're excited to announce that the source code for PolyBrowser, the “Panoramic Web Browser," is now available to the community on GitHub! Please join us in developing the browser of the future, or share the news with your friends and colleagues. Let's re-imagine web browsing, together.

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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jackmaney wrote: post #3

You know, I don't consider myself to be OCD, but the thought of scrolling horizontally through webpages that essentially never really align worth a damn on the actual browser window honestly makes me a bit nauseous.

No problem. It's not necessarily for everyone, but it's fantastic for anyone who switches between websites for comparison searches and multitasking.

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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robinhoodexe wrote: post #5

Seems pretty nice, but I'll stick with Firefox + the TreeStyleTabs addon.

We're shooting to add the TreeStyleTabs addon in an upcoming release. PolyBrowser lets you zoom out to see all of your websites at once, so you might want to give it a try anyway.

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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Post by kodablah »

robinhoodexe wrote: post #5

Seems pretty nice, but I'll stick with Firefox + the TreeStyleTabs addon.

Someone is going to take the chrome content API (or CEF or something similar) and make this happen and will become very popular (or even better, an "IDE" environment of sorts for browsing w/ good context switching). No, I am not talking about a separate window with hierarchical tabs, I am talking about being able to use some of this horizontal space I have plenty of.

The other barrier (which I guess PolyBrowser suffers from too) is that Chromium is so adamant on separate processes per tab that it becomes painful to use a lot of tabs. I wish they would officially support "--single-process" (doesn't need to be default or anything).

Edit: I see PolyBrowser is in XUL so it's already FF, pardon the comparison.

Re: Show HN: PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing

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Post by polysuite »

kodablah wrote: post #8
robinhoodexe wrote: post #5

Seems pretty nice, but I'll stick with Firefox + the TreeStyleTabs addon.

Someone is going to take the chrome content API (or CEF or something similar) and make this happen and will become very popular (or even better, an "IDE" environment of sorts for browsing w/ good context switching). No, I am not talking about a separate window with hierarchical tabs, I am talking about being able to use some of this horizontal space I have plenty of. The other barrier (which I guess PolyBrowser suffe…

Well, PolyBrowser is designed to make the most of your screen real-estate, not matter what screen size you have. It automatically utilizes your horizontal space for large monitors, and you can zoom out to fit more on small screens.

PolyBrowser also supports large browsing sessions with better memory manegement than Chromium.

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