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Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#14

A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.

Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows.

However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko.

Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#15

Is this standalone or an emacs plugin? I rather use vim motions, so is this locked to emacs, or can i do vim style for things instead?

The only connection between this and emacs is that both use a Lisp language (Nyxt is written in Common Lisp)... and that Nyxt is inspired by how emacs works. Anyway, why did you assume it is an emacs plugin? It doesn't say that anywhere.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#19
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In the spirit of promoting curious conversation, I'll ask: Can you identify the specific feature(s) you don't like?

When someone responds like this, it's not to specific features, but to the general over-saturation of "AI" features because they are trendy, despite the majority of such features being poorly thought out, misleading, poorly integrated, provide serious privacy concerns, don't address concerns about bias or hallucination, etc.

If the marketing copy actually referred to specific features, rather than the "AI" buzzword of the day, people might be less likely to interpret it as a negative signal.

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