The other day, I found myself looking at a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I wanted to waste time, but … I didn’t know how.
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
The end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the upcoming new semester. I found myself clearing out old bookmarks—yes, bookmarks: that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'. But this nostalgic act of tidying led me to despair.
I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf every day. To find it, you just have to uncheck one little box.
OmniATP - Chrome Web Store
Create a post to Bluesky, without leaving your current tab. You can just update status from the Omnibox(a.k.a. URL bar or Address…
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Open tabs are cognitive spaces
Nobody actually wants to use a web browser. It becomes evident the second you open your browser and notice that you don’t have internet connection. What we like about browsers is what they offer on the other side. What they connect us to. In that sense, browsers are transitory spaces - similar to airports, planes and train stations. Most of us have lost our childish curiosity towards these spaces - we go there because we want to arrive somewhere else. Arriving somewhere else with early browsers was quite one-dimensional - you clicked your way from one website to the next, in the same window. You surfed. You bookmarked the pages that you wanted to return to. Later, as the web became richer, you sometimes had more than one browser window open. I vividly remember having seven Internet Explorer windows open, thinking to myself “this is way too much to keep track of!”. Right now, my Firefox has 477 tabs open. How could this happen? Tabs are externalized cognition
The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It
What do you notice about the website above? It doesn’t have a navigation bar. The text links are floating in space and obscured by the background image. Navigation is there for users to find what they want. That’s hard for them to do without the navigation bar. The navigation bar is an affordance. Users rely […]
Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app
Meet the GenTab, nothing like the plain ol’ browser tab.
at://wormhole - Chrome Web Store
Open at:// links or the active tab URL in various AT Protocol tools and Bluesky clients.
Google Zero is here — now what?
The old web is dying and the new web struggles to be born.
apexskier/DefaultBrowser
A macOS menu bar app to intelligently control your default web browser.
Dormancy – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Dormancy for Firefox. Dormancy 'retires' tabs that have gone unused for a while, freeing up that memory. It then restores the tabs to life when accessed.
Semble bookmarklet
Learn how to add our bookmarklet to your browser to quickly open any webpage in Semble.
Search — a browser with nothing in the way
A 3 MB browser for the Mac. Opens in a third of a second. Free.
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
