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
How many browser tabs is too many? The science says 8. - Horse Browser
Chrome can technically run 9,000 tabs. Your brain starts to stress at 8. Here's the research, the real ceiling, and what actually fixes the gap.
Why Browsers Get Built - Infrequently Noted
There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn't be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar.
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.
What is a Browser?
OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox - save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter
Whenever you have too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert them into a list. When you need them again, you can restore them one by one or all at once.
Feeling overwhelmed by normal browsers? - Horse Browser
Your brain isn't broken. Your browser is. Horse Browser replaces tabs with Trails, a branching sidebar that keeps every page visible.
Feeling overwhelmed by normal browsers? - Horse Browser
Your brain isn't broken. Your browser is. Horse Browser replaces tabs with Trails, a branching sidebar that keeps every page visible.
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.
Break up the Browsers. A Proposal to Save the Open Web. - Movement For An Open Web
The Open Web is one of the world’s modern wonders. Based on core, universally recognised technical standards and owned and controlled by no one body, it is a unique structureRead More
The AI browser wars are about to begin
Artificial intelligence is already writing an obituary for the internet as we know it. So why is everyone building new web browsers?
You might be ghosting the internet. Can it survive?
Your clicks have immense power. Collectively, just moments of our attention can lift or sink a site. But our browsing is changing, and it could reshape the internet you know and love.
Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Trust me, this is a better way to Chrome.
in Semble, your open tabs get composted, turning information overload into ecological complexity. e.g. there's an "overwhelming" amount of activity in a forest, yet it is grounding and harmonious. Tabs -> seeds
♍ Bee 🐝
Logging On to @semble.so
Turns out when 4,500 of you ask for something it actually comes to life... Tab groups are here 🫶 blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-communi…
You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here | The Mozilla Blog
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