Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:45AM (#10071885)

A history tree seems interesting

A dev roadmap is just a general program requirement. Not specific to web browsers but good.

And you're right about mobile and extensions. There's no need to restrict when you don't have to! For a web browser on iOS, sadly you have to use Apple's engine but that's workable with js injection for extensions. And of course on Android there's no problem. I like that iOS is opening a little (I have an iPhone) but I wish it was more open like android, that way jail breaking would not be required for a lot of features. The one good thing now is that they're letting you side load apps from source with Xcode 7 without paying, but it's some michigas to go through. Mobile platforms are weird.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by IngoBlechschmid on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:48AM (#10071895)

There is an experimental browser project which was created for this very reason (tree-like history): http://rainbow-lollipop.de/ (page is in English)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by grindhold on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:50AM (#10072418)

Yeah, indeed, we got tree-style history and mode-based distraction-free browsing. You can see the project directly at https://github.com/grindhold/rainbow-lollipop

Contributions are very welcome :)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:50AM (#10071902)

Cool. And of course github at the moment is the best out there for open source. And open source is a must.

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