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YC commenters are brutal. Not a single positive comment, so far. That feels a little unnecessarily mean, given that it's a free software project.
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YC commenters are brutal. Not a single positive comment, so far. That feels a little unnecessarily mean, given that it's a free software project.
That's Min.
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> It's the same size as Firefox (160MB) despite offering significantly less features. Part of that is because of Electron. From the day Electron was released, I knew somebody will build a Web Browser upon it. Now that day finally came, again. LOL
That day came a while back: Brave.
Muon is similar to Electron, in that it uses Chromium, but different as in, it's really pretty much Chrome[ium], not some hacked together fork, avoiding branches like 'upgrade-to-chrome-61' [2]. It also puts back in the security features from Chromium (ie, the Sandboxes[6]) and allows for Chrom(e|ium) extensions to run inside Muon directly.
The Brave team have been working[3] pretty hard to re-unify Chrome[ium] into Electron.
You could make the case that the UI is written in Javascript for Brave, but then again[4], Chrome calls Javascript code when you open a new tab[5], and renders out the New Tab content as HTML, so, what's the diff?...
1: https://github.com/brave/muon
2: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10213
3: https://github.com/brave/muon/commit/5e32814490ae33eee08589e...
4: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab
5: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab-serviceworker.js
6: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/brag-sheet
I don't see what's "smarter" about it. - The UI seems clumsy and is so flat that it doesn't offer any directional hinting at all. - It's the same size as Firefox (160MB) despite offering significantly less features. - It's resource consumption seems to be about 25% more than a fresh Firefox instance.
and is so flat that it doesn't offer any directional hinting at all. These featureless, "wide expanse of pure white" UIs are one of the things that most irritates me about "modern" software today. They give the impression of being unfinished and opaque.
so its basically chrome-headless with a different UI and 20% slower because it is running via an interpreted nodejs rendering that is then compiled into a binary. why not just use chrome? If you're going to use an existing browser, why not use Dillo or Lynx as the backend, which really are minimalist in terms of memory usage.
Honestly, I’d say qutebrowser¹ is both smarter and more minimal than Min. ―――――― ¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/
As a user, that would make me nervous at least.
Honestly, I’d say qutebrowser¹ is both smarter and more minimal than Min. ―――――― ¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/
From the FAQ; "I believe efficiency while coding is a lot more important than efficiency while running." As a user, that would make me nervous at least.