Working on an experiment playing in the space left behind if browsers are gone and only web pages remain. Instead of tabs... it installs a new local native app for each URL leaving behind a growing pile of 228mb Electron apps that each load a single web page.
Feb 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell
A minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.
Migrating from BrowserView to WebContentsView | Electron
BrowserView has been deprecated since Electron 30 and is replaced by WebContentView. Thankfully, migrating is fairly painless.
Opera Mini is a game change : Cloud-Based Browsers and Its important to know them.
Index Introduction
AgregoreWeb/electron-extended-WebExtensions
Extend the built-in functionality of Electron Web Extensions with additional features commonly used by browsers.
Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app
Meet the GenTab, nothing like the plain ol’ browser tab.
How suitable is electron-browser-shell for building products on? · samuelmaddock electron-browser-shell · Discussion #129
Fantastic work, thanks for making this 🙏🏼 The readme has basic information about the code, but not much about the broader project, goals, funding, etc. Do you want companies to use this as a base f...
Perplexity AI's Comet browser will streak across the web this month
Is this comet an omen of doom for Chrome?
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
dietrich (@burrito.space)
A lot of Peek is window manager-y fun things, but with web pages, eg this design detail: - global hotkey -> cmd bar, doesn't take app focus - opening a URL there *does* take app focus, but *only* for the new/matching window, doesn't bring the rest along You get the page, but it *feels* in-place.
Forget the Fate of Chrome, Focus on the Fate of the Browser
In debating what undoubtedly won't happen, we're looking past some key things that are -- and might...
How Fugu is my browser?
The cross-company effort Project Fugu has the objective of making it possible for Web apps to do anything iOS, Android, or desktop apps can. Find out where on this exciting journey your current browser is!
Who Wins The Browser Wars?
Impressions from my time with Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia
The Electron changes here are quite interesting. It's not "add full browser extension support to Electron". Is more like "add special limbo space where extension support and things like it are possible". github.com/electron/electron/pull/44411
feat: service worker preload scripts for improved extensions support by samuelmaddock · Pull Request #44411 · electron/electron
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