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Re: Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

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Post by jjdirac »

heipei wrote: post #28
pam-b wrote: post #21

This is super cool. Good for people with slow/older computers and also presumably reduces the surface for web based attacks

Yeah, the kind of people that need high-performance productivity apps for their jobs but can't afford to upgrade to a $1000 M1 Macbook Air but will be able to spend what I assume will be more than $10 / month indefinitely /s

Bro I _have_ a $1000 M1 Macbook Air, and it's slow af when I browse the web. Constantly lags, freezes, runs out of RAM.

And that's a $1000 that I have to spend every few years, for just a mediocre experience (Since by the time it's 4-6 years old, it's virtually unusable for anything but the simplest of websites).

Maybe if people just wrote more HTML+JS rather than these big hefty "500kb of JS" React-based websites, this wouldn't be necessary. But as it is, $120/year is actually very cheap if it actually solves the problem it claims to solve. (Even $300/yr wouldn't be unreasonable tbh, esp if it's on my employer's card since work tabs are the hefty tabs for me)

Re: Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

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Post by night-rider »

sshine wrote: post #15

I like the alternative of treating tabs more like bookmarks better. So instead of explicitly bookmarking a page, not closing a tab is the indicator that you may be more interested in this page in the future than any page you visited in the past. In the meantime, you don't think that having many bookmarks requires more RAM. As for the faster load times, I can see the lure, but I think it's a sellout. I'd like to know…

I only recently learned that people like to tab-hoard, hence addons like one-tab that collapses your tabs into a neat page for revisiting later. That’s just how people use their browser. They assume their machines can hold all those tabs in the background but are then shocked when their CPU fan whirs violently. Remember a browser is the most complex piece of software on your system apart from the OS and has to do many things simultaneously.

Re: Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

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Post by loh »

kotaKat wrote: post #46
skyfaller wrote: post #41

"Whist is a fork of Brave", and advertises their "Crypto Wallet". I'll pass.

I'm in the same camp. If it was a fork of regular Chromium I'd be all over this.

I'm curious. What do you (and the GP) have against Brave and its "crypto wallet"? I use Brave myself, but have never bothered with the wallet. Last I checked, you could earn BAT from watching ads provided by Brave, which is why I never personally bothered with it. (I really don't like ads.) Is that your reasoning as well? Or is there another reason?
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