Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by awinter-py on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:29AM
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freeze is critical -- I don't need scroll events running once my news article loads.
+1 on easy build process
* Browser written in a way that prevents most exploits.
* Built-in Javascript and cross-domain request blocking.
* Single-process sandboxed browser where only the active tab is allowed to run.
* Tab content written to disk so it can be restored in the event of a crash or running out of battery.
* Ability to "swap out" tabs to disk so they consume no memory.
* Ability to freeze all javascript code on a tab temporarily.
* Deep searching of history (i.e. page content).
* Created by a privacy-friendly organization/people who aren't trying to spy on you.
* Avoid doing things automatically (download files to a folder, search for misspelled URLs, send URL to Google when typing it in, etc). Don't have keyboard shortcuts that are hard to undo (also, don't have single-key letter/number shortcuts at all).
* Don't have an over-engineered build process. The browser should be possible to build (not necessarily fast) on an old or low-end computer.