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Browser innovation is a big deal. There are very few "real" (usable daily) browsers with interesting UX concepts due to the complexity of embedding a browser engine and keeping it up to date (yes, including with Electron).

So this is great, even if only from that perspective! Maybe as a base to work from.

I'm not sure I agree with all of the design concepts, but I'll definitely call it interesting - finally something legitimately new! That's great to see, specially in this (somewhat surprisingly) stagnant field.

(Source: Tried to find some way to get a version of Chromium with tree style tabs. All options I found were bad. )

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> (Source: Tried to find some way to get a version of Chromium with tree style tabs. All options I found were bad. )

Give Firefox a try! Revolutionary features such as: Extensions can actually change the browser chrome! TreeStyleTabs is a extension I can't live without, another one is "container tabs" to separate things a bit more. Ad blocking extensions also will continue working in Firefox, compared to Chrome which are slowly limiting their usefulness.

I'm a Firefox user because it has tree style tabs (Sidebery). I used to make a point out of using it for browser diversity but Mozilla has lost all of my good will and more.

Just because I'm curious, which browser has TreeStyleTabs (or similar) and also more good will than Mozilla? I can't figure out what you would be using today, if not Firefox. For me, Mozilla is the lesser of N evils when it comes to browsers, and I get TreeStyleTabs.

> Ad blocking extensions also will continue working in Firefox, compared to Chrome which are slowly limiting their usefulness.

What do you mean?

There are many issues with the proposed Manifest V3, but the relevant part is that extensions will no longer be able to have full control over requests, so ad/tracking blockers will be less efficient at their job. From EFF:

> As the name suggests, the new declarativeNetRequest API is declarative. Today, extensions can intercept every request that a web page makes, and decide what to do with each one on the fly. But a declarative API requires developers to define what their extension will do with specific requests ahead of time, choosing from a limited set of rules implemented by the browser. Gone is the ability to run sophisticated functions that decide what to do with each individual request. If your extension needs to process requests in a way that isn’t covered by the existing rules, you just can’t do it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...

Firefox also has that tags feature (advertised on Bonsai’s home page) baked in too.

I used it multiple times a day as it’s ridiculously handy.

I had to look it up, but I guess this is what you are referring to:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-...

Yeah. It’s really easy to use set and intuitive to use. The only caveat is you still need to bookmark the site. But that makes a lot of sense when you think about it (how else are you going to catalogue the sites?).

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