New Experimental Browser

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It’s quite interesting! Thanks for sharing!

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Is it a Chromium web browser?

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I believe so. It’s…very experimental right now. Mac only but Electron based.

The UI is super basic and loading webpages doesn’t always work for me.

But the concept has legs!

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Electron?

So it isn’t native?

I hope it does get better, but I’m turned off for now.

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Far from native. Though I don’t understand what a “native” browser is.

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I thought you were talking about the user interface?

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I have no way of knowing which part of the app is using Electron :grin:

I don’t think it’s all that crazy to design the chrome of a browser using web technology. It’s already going to be there anyways.

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Did you find any way to change the hotkey? It hijacks my Alfred and I don’t feel like unbuilding muscle memory :sweat_smile:

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I don’t think it’s currently supported but is highly requested.

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Glad someone posted this. I played around with it a bit yesterday. The visor/overlay approach combined with a forced single window is a neat idea. You can script Safari/Chrome/FF to appear and disappear similarly, but unless you’re diligent about window and tab management, you can’t rely on its appearing a certain way. That’s where the visual workspace and associations come in–your eyes can jump to the lower right, or center, as you’re hitting the shortcut.

I might actually like to see this become much smaller, like if GhostNote had a tiny browser. That’d obviously be a significant rendering challenge since mobile/narrow-width views are designed for a different use case and have too much whitespace (you wouldn’t want to do much scrolling when quickly referencing an overlay.)

Here’s a simple Hammerspoon config that will let you toggle Safari’s appearance. I use a few of these; Terminal sees the most daily action (basically continuing the habit from when I used iTerm.)

hs.hotkey.bindSpec(
	{{"ctrl"}, "s"},
	function()
		focusedApplication = hs.window.focusedWindow():application()
		if focusedApplication:title() == "Safari" then
			focusedApplication:hide()
		else
			hs.application.launchOrFocus("Safari")	
		end
	end
)
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That’s an elegant Hammerspoon snippet. Thanks!

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