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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by mahmud on Sunday October 03, 2010 @04:04PM (#1753478)
Chrome with thirty tabs

I found it very helpful to actively and violently close down tabs. 4-5 is just about the ideal maximum. I keep a separate lightweight browser, Opera, open to API documentation, and firefox for other stuff. For wifi, I removed the internal one and use an external one. Whenever I need to focus, I close firefox without saving sessions and unplug the wifi.

When I go out to cafes for reading, I leave the wifi at home.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by adbge on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:15PM (#1753778)
> I keep a separate lightweight browser, Opera

Opera is not particularly lightweight, even compared with Chromium. Check out Midori.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by mahmud on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:24PM (#1753803)
That was an excellent suggestion. It is more lightweight than any other full-functional, graphic browser I have used so far.
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