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Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by skulk » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 3:08 PM UTC

hakunin wrote: post #49

I remember reading this jwz post[1] in 2012 where he said he never uses tabs at all, and realizing that I can use a combination of windows and tabs. So now I just have each window contain a bunch of tabs for one topic. If it's WIP, the window stays open or minimized, if it's a long term thing, I convert it to Safari's tab group. Not sure why more people don't use multiple windows, it's way more convenient than just h…

> The point here is, you cannot turn off Tabs in Firefox. You may think that you can, but history proves you wrong. I spent literally years where, each time I upgraded Firefox, I had to spend half an hour searching through the thousands of lines of about:config looking for the newly-added checkbox that I need to un-check -- and then it would only work like 60% of the time anyway, and I'd still end up with tabs.

I ran into this problem and came up with a jank solution: https://github.com/sid-code/tabs-are-windows

It's about 5 lines of code and punts all new tabs into their own windows. I've been using it for a while now and it works, except when you press C-t (my muscle memory for opening new tabs) it doesn't focus the new window's address bar due to the rigamarole of pushing it off into a new window.

Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by wonger_ » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 3:43 PM UTC

n3storm wrote: post #36

I have used for several extended periods of time Min browser to stay focused on docs and spaces: https://minbrowser.org/

I like Min too. I've been using it for 3 years. The workspace separation is nice, along with the minimal UI. I think it has the best defaults of any browser. Unfortunately, there's a couple uncomfortable quirks and bugs to deal with. I'll probably be switching to Firefox soon and spending lots of time customizing.

Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 4:50 PM UTC

konaraddi wrote: post #8

danpalmer wrote: post #5

Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.

If true, horse browser devs need to read the Security section on Electron docs: > With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#pre... I feel like they should’ve used Chromium.

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Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by quyleanh » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 1:48 AM UTC

timeon wrote: post #41

quyleanh wrote: post #12

Why don’t we just use Edge? It offers a superior experience with features like vertical tabs, collections, and more.

Why this chromium flavor in particular? You can have these with Firefox and even Safari has it by default.

Google services like YouTube and Gmail may not work smoothly with Firefox because Google slows them down. If you don’t use Google services (which most people do), you don’t need to worry.

Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by TomK32 » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 6:35 AM UTC

elashri wrote: post #34

TomK32 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It won't do anything with the folders though. That's a pitty. I love putting my bookmarks into folders.

I am not sure if this still works but this python script [1] helped me when I moved bookmarks from Firefox to linkding long time ago. It converted folders to tags. Linkding doesn't have folders concept and rely on tabs. [1] https://github.com/ulixxe/Netscape-Bookmark-File-Parser

Yeah, read a github issue on the topic, looks like this won't change. Tag with some spacer like `:` would be great, but the app would have to treat them differently from regular tags to be useful to me. Or maybe I'll make a pull request :-)

Re: Horse – The Organized Browser

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Post by ax0ar » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 12:32 PM UTC

Looks like an Arc alternative, but how trustable is this? I read some comments here mentioning how electron is not very safe. Besides, it's a one man project. Can a browser be a one man business?