Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by vdhus on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:28AM
(#10072017)
solutions to some of the things mentioned above, that people are happy with and using?
Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by jakub_g on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:31AM
(#10072029)
For session restore, I use (on desktop) Firefox + Session Manager + BarTab Lite
"Save for offline" is quite good on Opera for Android
Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by eivarv on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:28AM
(#10072366)
Zotero [0], with browser connector (extension), or alternatively a bookmarklet.
Originally intended as a research tool to manage sources, hence the added benefit of being able to export collections as BibTeX.
- Option to stop all audio/video in all tabs
- Lazy session restore
- Reliable "save for offline viewing"
- Decoupling of "read later" from bookmarks and a separate interface for both
Going wild:
- Automagic unloading, archiving and clustering of opened tabs, perhaps with an auto-extraction of TL;DR from long articles
I very often open lots of pages (from HN etc.) but have no time to read them all at the time of opening. They linger as background tabs until the background tabs count is so big so I have to close them all and probably never come back.
Would be cool if the browser was able to somehow unload and archive unused tabs (to free some memory), and perhaps automatically group them into several categories: say, "angularjs", "bash", "youtube", "news" etc. and provide a good interface to return to them later.
However due to sheer amount of links I follow, my problem might be unsolvable :)