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SHOW HN2017

264points
78comments
#92of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

15 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.

Idea: 8 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Hierarchical tabs prevent getting lost in links

    From 2 comments
    • I switched to Firefox (dev edition) a month or so ago almost completely becuase the TreeStyleTabs extension is better than anything for chrome. I LOVE having nested tabs. It…
      jdc0589 on HN
    • > besides it being difficult to navigate between them That's it. Hierarchical pages makes it really easy to contextually browse or what I call "immutable browsing" which is never…
      kodablah on HN
  • Bubbles feature sounds great

    From 1 comment
    • Bubbles sound like a really great feature! I'll be waiting on a Mac version too so maybe this already exists - but it'd be awesome to be able to pin domains to bubbles so they…
      mcintyre1994 on HN

Objections

  • No macOS version yet

    From 2 comments
    • No OSX support? :( :(
      Cacti on HN
    • Looks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
      mateuszf on HN
  • Fails to run on Ubuntu due to Qt version

    From 1 comment
    • Cool idea. Can't run on the latest Ubuntu though, it seems the latest Qt in the Ubuntu repos is 5.7? ``` $ ./doogie ./doogie: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version…
      cjbillington on HN

Requests

  • macOS support

    From 2 comments
    • No OSX support? :( :(
      Cacti on HN
    • Looks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
      mateuszf on HN
  • Vim or Emacs keybindings

    From 2 comments
    • Looks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
      mateuszf on HN
    • > My fear is that even if I develop a OSX version, it will become stale Being open source and hosted on Github, I doubt that will be a problem. The Mac community is rather…
      dotancohen on HN
  • Side or vertical tabs in Chrome

    From 2 comments
    • Great work! I never understood why this isn't the default. Hopefully this will finally gain traction in mainline Chrome. But I'm not holding my breath...
      moe on HN
    • Never. Chrome had side tabs, but some being wiser than all others determined unreadable microtabs to be the appropriate punishment for the sin of opening too many (good thing…
      otakucode on HN

Questions

  • What problem does it solve?

    From 1 comment
  • Why CEF instead of QtWebEngine or QtWebKit?

    From 1 comment
    • You should look into distributing an AppImage. Its author has a very nice script that you can use to ship Qt apps that works on all linux distros:…
      jcelerier on HN

Alternatives named

  • Firefox with Tree Style Tabs extension

    From 2 comments
    • I switched to Firefox (dev edition) a month or so ago almost completely becuase the TreeStyleTabs extension is better than anything for chrome. I LOVE having nested tabs. It…
      jdc0589 on HN
    • The Firefox extension "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" by Mozilla has the exact features you mention. I've been using it ever since it was first released as a Firefox Test…
      tradesmanhelix on HN
  • Tabs Outliner Chrome extension

    From 1 comment
    • I love this way of managing tabs and windows! Today I approximate this by using Chrome and the under-appreciated Tabs Outliner[1] side-by-side. [1]…
      CharlesW on HN
  • Vivaldi sidebar tabs

    From 1 comment
    • Vivaldi has sidebar tabs, chrome under the hood.
      rasz on HN

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