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Re:Opera Neon concept browser by mbesto on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:43AM (#13383058)
I don't need my browser to "innovate". It just needs to continue doing it what it does best - consistently render a presentation layer. All of the innovation should be under the hood (which it appears Chrome/Firefox have been doing)
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by rospaya on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:44AM (#13383075)
So you don't use bookmarks or tabs?
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by gkya on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:18PM (#13384081)
Bookmarks and tabs are there already in all major OSS browsers.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by wongarsu on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:26PM (#13385262)
Bookmarks and tabs are far from being easy, solved problems. For example adding a Firefox addon to display tabs vertically in a tree structure instead of a horizontal list has changed the way I use the internet (and I have always used a lot of tabs).

In the end tabs are just like booksmarks, except that they keep state during a browsing session. I find it very weird that we keep those very similar concepts in completely different UIs. There's a lot of room for improvement in that area.

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by gkya on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:02PM (#13386075)
> In the end tabs are just like booksmarks, except that they keep state during a browsing session.

Agreed.

I'd not say that there's no room for improvement WRT bookmarks and tabs, but this has nothing to do with the comment thread I responded to.

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by wowtip on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:37AM (#13388907)
> For example adding a Firefox addon to display tabs vertically in a tree structure instead of a horizontal list has changed the way I use the internet

Sounds interesting, which extension would that be?

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by isxek on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:41AM (#13389357)
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by wongarsu on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:46AM (#13398320)
Yes, I'm using Tree Style Tabs.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by wowtip on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:10AM (#13417613)
Thanks
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by smsm42 on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:10AM (#13389023)
They are "in" there, but they are very far from being perfect. Managing bookmarks is a constant pain, and most browsers don't even offer things as simple as watching if bookmark has gone bad, let alone any added-value services. Tabs are not spectacular either - I regularly keep dozens of tabs open, and no browser I've seen handles this scenario very well, most just show something like "ok, you've got a lot of tabs, guess which is which". Handling them better, separating by importance, supporting grouping etc. - haven't see it anywhere. I'm sure there are also other places browser experience could be improved.
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by 0xCMP on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:23PM (#13385766)
tabs, but I use https://pinboard.in/
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by domenukk on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:50AM (#13383127)
Why do you need bookmarks, either you google it again or can access it through some kind of chat... Tabs are nice though
Re:Opera Neon concept browser by lsh on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:40PM (#13384312)
in vivaldi you can ctrl-d to bookmark then shift-tab to set a shortcut name

in future you can just ctrl-t then shortcut name to go straight to bookmark.

yeah, it's bookmarks under the hood, but being able to just go 'ctrl-t' then 'webmail' or 'workmail' or whatever saves the convolutions of smartcomplete and autocomplete and displaying history or suggestions and such in the url bar.

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by aroch on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:07PM (#13385117)
^d in Firefox and Chrome also bookmarks the page

Both Firefox's awesomebar and Chrome's omnibox let you go to a shortcut by typing its name

Re:Opera Neon concept browser by yoz-y on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:03PM (#13383927)
Or use the browser history/read it later system