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Re: Nook Browser

#21

Post by chrysoprace »

gcr wrote: post #18
chrysoprace wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An integrated experience. In the past I found that the vertical tab options in Firefox had the tabs duplicated across the side and the top, which I always found to be a subpar experience. Again, probably something you could accomplish with user.js and user.css but there's a good chance an update could break your modifications.

If you haven't tried firefox' vertical tabs recently, try it again. Firefox's default vertical tabs UI is quite nice now.

Seems quite similar to Zen's experience, except it seems to be missing folders (which I admittedly don't use often, but they're sometimes handy to group a Jira ticket with a PR, or similar). I'll probably still stick with Zen while it's around, and maybe I'll hop over to LibreWolf as I'm not too happy about Mozilla's recent stance on privacy.

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by normie3000 »

65 wrote: post #12

It's nice, but it feels like Yet Another Browser. I'm interested in seeing all the new browsers that will come out in the next few years that are based off Ladybird. Or alternatively what Ladybird will enable in terms of customization. I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered.

> I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered.

I'm going out on a limb here and betting they're numbered in the high thousands minimum.

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by LoganDark »

normie3000 wrote: post #20
LoganDark wrote: post #4

I think I like the idea, but the structure of the code doesn't look the best. What most sticks out to me is the "Managers" directory. I've seen similar patterns before, even at my current place of work, but they seem to correlate with less experienced implementations. For instance, I clicked on one of them randomly and already found an issue: https://github.com/nook-browser/Nook/blob/09a4c6957a2e9fd7c5... I guess `ww…

> the only TLDs with two components are `"co.uk", "co.jp", "com.au", "co.nz", "com.br". Is this sarcasm? The public suffix list will give some ideas for omissions: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

That was me pointing out what was plainly implemented in the code snippet I linked. It is obviously nowhere near the truth.

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by valleyer »

normie3000 wrote: post #20
LoganDark wrote: post #4

I think I like the idea, but the structure of the code doesn't look the best. What most sticks out to me is the "Managers" directory. I've seen similar patterns before, even at my current place of work, but they seem to correlate with less experienced implementations. For instance, I clicked on one of them randomly and already found an issue: https://github.com/nook-browser/Nook/blob/09a4c6957a2e9fd7c5... I guess `ww…

> the only TLDs with two components are `"co.uk", "co.jp", "com.au", "co.nz", "com.br". Is this sarcasm? The public suffix list will give some ideas for omissions: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

Right; top-level comment is saying that those are all missing from the linked code.

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by FuturisticGoo »

chrysoprace wrote: post #21
gcr wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you haven't tried firefox' vertical tabs recently, try it again. Firefox's default vertical tabs UI is quite nice now.

Seems quite similar to Zen's experience, except it seems to be missing folders (which I admittedly don't use often, but they're sometimes handy to group a Jira ticket with a PR, or similar). I'll probably still stick with Zen while it's around, and maybe I'll hop over to LibreWolf as I'm not too happy about Mozilla's recent stance on privacy.

Is it similar to tab groups? It's available on Firefox Nightly, don't know about stable.

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by agoodusername63 »

normie3000 wrote: post #23
65 wrote: post #12

It's nice, but it feels like Yet Another Browser. I'm interested in seeing all the new browsers that will come out in the next few years that are based off Ladybird. Or alternatively what Ladybird will enable in terms of customization. I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered.

> I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered. I'm going out on a limb here and betting they're numbered in the high thousands minimum.

chromium/blink is going to be ship of theseus'd before it "dies" imo

Re: Nook Browser

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Post by darthcircuit »

TheRoque wrote: post #5
linkage wrote: post #3

How is built-in ad blocking not the foremost priority? Brave and Comet both have it. uBlock Origin is not as effective as it used to be as of Manifest v3.

uBlock is still as efficient if you're using Mozilla, blame the browser not the extension

Very correct. I’m on Zen and UBO works great for me. Chrome based browsers are screwed for ads
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