Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
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#2I love this idea, I've been using Arc Browser for a while now and it looks like this would be a very nice addition to that browser.
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#3This is sweet! When we made Chrome some of us (OK only me) were enamoured with an IE shell browser named iRider - it had tree style tabs and pinning, so was useful in very similar ways
IIRC one of the things they did well that could work here is batch control of tabs by dragging across them - you could click on a close or pin button, then drag vertically across other tabs to apply that action - it made handling the glut ever-spawning tabs very easy
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#4Orion - Safari with support for FF/Chrome extensions (ALSO on iOS. For free), and has tree-style tabs if you enable it.
My browsing has become so much more enjoyable. Also, since it’s almost the same as Safari, great resource management, great gestures, great performance. Definitely recommended
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#5Love this idea.
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#6I had this exact idea and I've described it to colleagues before. Fun to see parallel evolution. It feels like a simple concept that should already exist, so I'm surprised it's not more commonly attempted. But you're missing a few of the features that I came up with that build on the initial idea. I haven't gotten around to implementing it yet, but it's on my todo list for this year/next year.
I was planning to build it with ultralig.ht, but I'm not 100% sure if it's ready for it. But since most of the content I'm interested in for research is textual/reader mode, and the rest can be viewed with yt-dlp, I think it can render them and it seems the lightest weight. Otherwise it's webkit or servo that I could think of for this.
Good to know there's interest in this.
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#7Cool, thanks for sharing.
Been using the grouping and pinning feature in chrome for a bit then saving the groups i care about to try to emulate this behavior, but still a long way off from ideal; the one dimension of tabs at the top level means the UI gets crowded quickly.
Had the tree-style tabs extension for a bit but didn't love its interface and found it to be more trouble than it was worth.
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#8This is pretty neat!
And I strongly suggest that you contact Kay Xu , who is doing research on sensemaking [1] [2] and berrypicking [3], I think he is currently working on newer and better version of his approach with browser extensions (as opposed to a separate renderer), and you both would benefit from collaboration.
[1] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/paper.pdf
[2] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20080112091521/http://www.gseis....
Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
#9As a "Watership Down" fan, if I were ever go down the rabbit-holing rabbit hole, I'd be tempted to name the resulting tool "flayrah" (or maybe "Rabscuttle").
But in the meantime (my current rabbit holing technology being a text file in a side window), I'm more than happy to try out everyone else's!
Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
#10This is sweet! When we made Chrome some of us (OK only me) were enamoured with an IE shell browser named iRider - it had tree style tabs and pinning, so was useful in very similar ways IIRC one of the things they did well that could work here is batch control of tabs by dragging across them - you could click on a close or pin button, then drag vertically across other tabs to apply that action - it made handling the g…
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