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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 RodericDay »

SwellJoe wrote: post #15

What's almost as interesting as what they've built is that they've built this based on Firefox. It's impressive that the UI can be so thoroughly re-imagined with not that much code (not to say it is a trivial project, or to diminish the work put into it; it's very impressive). I've never thought "I want a panoramic browser", but I never thought I wanted tabs until I had them, and a dozen other large and small now-man…

what I really want is to be able to navigate the web, as 3D stacks of elements with writing on their faces, with a Tron-bike

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

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Post by polysuite »

Raphmedia wrote: post #14

This might be the very thing I need on this big 4k screen. Edit: Feedback: - This logo is way too big. Use logo only, no text. I know what browser I'm on already - Allow the viewports to snap to the side of the screen - Allow grid. Right now, I have a lot of websites horizontally but this vertical space is wasted - Allow me to have a regular search bar - Allow me to zoom / un-zoom individual viewports - I feel like t…

If you open the menu and select Customize PolyBrowser, you can add the standard Firefox search bar back, and get rid of Firefox Hello. Also, the tabs automatically collapse in size when there get to be too many, reducing the need to "Pin" tabs. Otherwise, thanks for the punch list! Please let us know if you or someone you know would like to contribute to the project on GitHub to help make these features happen.

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

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Post by polysuite »

RodericDay wrote: post #21
SwellJoe wrote: post #15

What's almost as interesting as what they've built is that they've built this based on Firefox. It's impressive that the UI can be so thoroughly re-imagined with not that much code (not to say it is a trivial project, or to diminish the work put into it; it's very impressive). I've never thought "I want a panoramic browser", but I never thought I wanted tabs until I had them, and a dozen other large and small now-man…

what I really want is to be able to navigate the web, as 3D stacks of elements with writing on their faces, with a Tron-bike

You will... in the year two thouuuuusand.

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

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Post by Raphmedia »

polysuite wrote: post #22
Raphmedia wrote: post #14

This might be the very thing I need on this big 4k screen. Edit: Feedback: - This logo is way too big. Use logo only, no text. I know what browser I'm on already - Allow the viewports to snap to the side of the screen - Allow grid. Right now, I have a lot of websites horizontally but this vertical space is wasted - Allow me to have a regular search bar - Allow me to zoom / un-zoom individual viewports - I feel like t…

If you open the menu and select Customize PolyBrowser, you can add the standard Firefox search bar back, and get rid of Firefox Hello. Also, the tabs automatically collapse in size when there get to be too many, reducing the need to "Pin" tabs. Otherwise, thanks for the punch list! Please let us know if you or someone you know would like to contribute to the project on GitHub to help make these features happen.

No problem, this was my first impression. Those are valuable, so I love to make lists out of them.

I added the search bar, but I can't figure out how to make it bigger. It shows correctly in "edit" mode but shrinks to something very small on the actual browser.

As for the pin tab feature, sure, they get smaller (like they would in Chrome) but I usually pin a media player and my email client to the left, in icon format. I let my 10 other tabs at full width. This allows me to ignore the media player altogether unless I need to change the current playlist.

In poly, I wish I could hide those tabs and only have them display when needed. A minimize tab feature, perhaps.

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

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Post by polysuite »

Octplane wrote: post #25

Nice stuff ! 3 Qs: - any keyboard shortcuts ? - any list of all the features (apart from the one listed on the website home) - touchpad usage, hints or doc ? Keep up the good stuff !

Thanks! We worked hard to maintain all of the keyboard shortcuts that are used in Firefox. See here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...

Our own (limited) FAQ is here: http://polybrowser.com/faqs

It's fully touchscreen-compatible, and you can pan and pinch/zoom with your fingers.

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