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Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by TeMPOraL »

entropicdrifter wrote: post #75
exe34 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers I have too many bookmarks, I'd never find anything in there. Keeping it open is the only way.

I was thinking more about people who use Tree Style Tabs and have nested Tab folders and such when I wrote that part. It's simple enough to save an entire session as a bookmark folder, to open an entire folder of bookmarks as new tabs (rather than needing to hibernate tabs to save ram while still keeping them "open"), and to search through bookmarks ad-hoc. Bookmark folders can be infinitely nested, categorized, orde…

It's simple. Tabs keep state[0], bookmarks don't.

The web went to shit a long time ago; you can't rely on being able to bookmark a site and then go back to where you were. Half the sites are infinite scroll, or dynamically generated pages, or SPAs[1], or some other ephemeral invention du jour. Keeping a tab open gives you some chance to return to where you were for some time; bookmarks are just giving up.

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[0] - At least until the browser decides to screw with you and unloads the tabs you needed. Firefox on Android is particularly aggressive at that, which incidentally makes PWAs unusable, too.

[1] - You're lucky when those let you make a bookmark that won't drop you back to index page when loaded.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by reustle »

Yeroc wrote: post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm getting "%s" as the initial prompt, even though the text is properly displaying in the URL. Almost seems like an issue on the Claude side.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by iansinnott »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #119

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

There are a ton of alternatives if you search around. I created my own because I wanted something keyboard centric, and use OpenRouter with it: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta. They all accomplish roughly the same thing though.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by submeta »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #119

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Try MultiGPT which is a Chrome extension that consolidates several AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Claude, and more, into a single interfacee

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by dzhiurgis »

pants2 wrote: post #113
notatoad wrote: post #106

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.

100% - amazing this crap get released when "Add to Dock" is far better - zoom, copy/paste, search, font size - all works just like in normal browser.

Amazingly both implementations burn 100% CPU when rendering text, which is just bonkers.

Claude's web app crashes after few days and uses 30% on idle.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#126

Post by dzhiurgis »

alwayslikethis wrote: post #105
freedomben wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics

You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.

That requires user to accept permissions (which lately macos giving so many popups made me fatigued and accept everything)

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by frankacter »

Yeroc wrote: post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI

Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search

Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by gregorymichael »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #87
sv123 wrote: post #11

Perhaps a gateway to run computer use locally? https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

I don't think they could release computer use for $20/month plan. It seems super expensive and you could easily involve Claude for hours of work for manual tasks like data entry or data cleaning.

My experiments with computer use clocked in at $15/hour

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by TeMPOraL »

yboris wrote: post #24
pjmlp wrote: post #10

An Electron app is anything but fast.

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron! You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

More like 400MB, and the problem isn't that I can't spare it. The problem is that I can only spare 400 MB a few times at most before it starts becoming an issue.

I have stuff to do on my computer, stuff that often involves multiple programs (one of them almost always being a browser!). Then there's bunch of support stuff that I want, or have to, keep around. A music player, an IM, a mail client, etc. When everything gets packaged as Electron apps, even those tiny utilities add up quickly, and everything slows. down. Or worse, gets starved for RAM and starts stuttering (Windows) or just gets OOM-killed (Linux).

And I say that as a dev/techie, who has plenty of RAM. Non-tech people tend to have computers that are memory-starved by default. Building trivial stuff as Electron apps, where native would be 100x less resource-intensive, is just peak developer laziness/selfishness.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by Yeroc »

frankacter wrote: post #127
Yeroc wrote: post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.

Yes, I'm aware of @gemini on Chrome. If you look at how it's implemented they are purposely stashing the query into a HTTP header so it's not possible to use a simple bookmark to launch it.
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