Re:Ask HN: What Features Would You Want in a Minimalist Brow...
by rzzzwilson on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @01:25AM
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Must have:
* cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Apple, Android.
* handle great majority of HTML/CSS "features" handled by the mainstream browsers.
* easy to use bookmarks, allowing sub-folders within folders (see below).
* allow position within each bookmark folder to be remembered on next view.
* ability to seamlessy synchronize bookmarks between versions of the brower on different machines, preferably without having to create some sort of account to do so.
* an effective ad-blocker.
Should not:
* include calendars, email clients, etc.
* have hard-coded bookmark folders like "mobile". Populate the bookmarks with top-level folders like that if you must, but allow the user to delete them. I want to organize my bookmarks my way.
All of the above is just off-the-cuff points I remember. Given time I could probably dredge up a lot more suggestions. Like treating bookmark views almost as a web-page, so you could open a bookmark with either a click (replacing the current view) or as "view in new tab". Opening a bookmark with a click would show the new page and clicking on "back" goes back to the original bookmark view.
* cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Apple, Android.
* handle great majority of HTML/CSS "features" handled by the mainstream browsers.
* easy to use bookmarks, allowing sub-folders within folders (see below).
* allow position within each bookmark folder to be remembered on next view.
* ability to seamlessy synchronize bookmarks between versions of the brower on different machines, preferably without having to create some sort of account to do so.
* an effective ad-blocker.
Should not:
* include calendars, email clients, etc.
* have hard-coded bookmark folders like "mobile". Populate the bookmarks with top-level folders like that if you must, but allow the user to delete them. I want to organize my bookmarks my way.
All of the above is just off-the-cuff points I remember. Given time I could probably dredge up a lot more suggestions. Like treating bookmark views almost as a web-page, so you could open a bookmark with either a click (replacing the current view) or as "view in new tab". Opening a bookmark with a click would show the new page and clicking on "back" goes back to the original bookmark view.