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Install firefox, use an extension. Or use brave and its built-in sidebar for tabs.
Why don’t we just use Edge? It offers a superior experience with features like vertical tabs, collections, and more.
I bought a lifetime license to Horse a while ago but haven’t really used it until recently (Arc is my main). It’s pretty good, opinionated, but it doesn’t support extensions. The built-in ad blocker is okay but Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin are my winning combo in mainstream browsers. I also use Raindrop in a regular basis so until Horse at least supports those three extensions, it won’t be my main browser.
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> To comfortably maintain our own build pipeline with Chrome Extension Support.
Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.
If true, horse browser devs need to read the Security section on Electron docs: > With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#pre... I feel like they should’ve used Chromium.
A very minimal Rust-only browser with security and privacy in mind at every single step is completely missing from browsers today. Things like waterfox et al are enormous projects that take far too long for one person to audit the entire code base to ensure correctness. Something like the 'wireguard of browsers' in this regard is needed (single repo that one person can read over in a day and can be built with a single cargo build command). Even servo unfortunately falls just barely shy of this goal, but one can dream.
So the point is to have hierarchical tables groups? Aren’t there Firefox / Chrome extensions that do that? I wouldn’t mind paying a lifetime fee for a better browser, that also seems to align with how I take notes. It’s the support of various obscure web gotchas and things like in-browser visualizations that worry me. I run into issues of some page not loading properly on Firefox and have to fire up Chrome, I imagine…
I think it's a cool idea and something I'd buy for 20-60$, but only if it was an addon, not its own standalone browser. Those are too important to get from a tiny startup.
Why don’t we just use Edge? It offers a superior experience with features like vertical tabs, collections, and more.
Too much nagging.
Funny how these sort of solutions come up. I never understood the tab problem, I don't even use extensions to manage tabs, group tabs, or whatever. I like to keep my work focused, so apart from the 4-5 tabs I keep permanently open due to convenience (email, tasks, calendar, etc), I rarely have more than 3-4 others of stuff I'm working/researching. When its done, I close them. If I need them, I either bookmark or save…
Basically there's two ways to deal with an emergent user behavior: see it as a problem to control (make people use bookmarks instead), or embrace it as the path of least friction for the user and actually encourage it more, and make it easier, and more robust (Safari sometimes loses all tabs which is obviously a catastrophe for my partner).
Then the remaining question is, can a single product solve both user behaviors? Or do you need a new product to solve for the second behavior? And maybe that's a great reason for a solution like this to come up.