If you like visual layouts like the one offered then OK, but not me, I think it's distracting and unnecessary.
BTW the headline is blown af
It's always good to have more players in this game and to me what they are trying to do seems more approachable than the examples you showed.
I agree with your overall points but this but stood out to me because it's not clear if Bonsai uses its own rendering engine of it is just another reskin of Blink / Chromium. What we really need is more competition with browsers which use their own rendering engines. Or at the very least, more browsers using Gecko (Firefox). If this is another Chromium-based browser then it's still definitely good to see some new ideas in UI but we don't really see much other benefit having more players in the game.
What worries me the most is that this is closed source but presented as if it is open source. Their binaries are stored on Github but there's literally nothing in the repo aside a README (https://github.com/hyferg/bonsai-browser-public). This is of particular concern given the sensitive content that people use browsers for these days (banking, shopping, research on potentially sensitive topics, etc). It would be trivial for a malicious browser to do some real damage to people and there's no way to prove this browser's intentions are sincere given how little information (ie "none") is published about its developers or even the code.
I'm mainly using Firefox, but it's really becoming a resource hog and making my laptop fan spin more violently. I have a lot of tabs open.
But innovation in how to manage lots of tabs is welcome and this is what these guys seem to address too.
Our website got 1TB of traffic yesterday (which it turns out I have to pay for) and thats without hosting the binary on our site!
the message wasn't about me or you, it was about browser space
I'm confused why the thread got so much upvotes, and a lot of comments made me more confused. Not trying to be rude, but I don't really understand the usefulness ..
wat? I responded to this:
> this is the most innovative thing in the browser space for a long while
I simply mentioned how there have been some other browsers for a while that have an equivalent feature set, therefore this isn't so innovative.
The fucking snowflakes. Where every opinion must be cherished and never argued with.
Your tone makes it seem like you just want to toot your own horn and not like you want to actually have a conversation about the topic.
Maybe you could’ve said “there is this other application that I’ve been using that’s been out for a while and has innovated the browser in similar ways, check it out”
Do whatever you want, I just think you might promote healthier conversations if you don’t come across as pedantic. Unless you’re a troll or proud of your tone, either way, thanks for your time.