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So I've ranted about this in various places on the internet...

Some recent HN comments of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541173

I am 100% down for building this, open source, if I had a team to help me see it through as it's just too much for one person.

Do you have any dev experience / interest in helping create such a thing?

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How much work would it be to convert either Firefox / Chromium / Nyxt into this instead of starting from scratch?

There are always going to be limitations to extension-based approaches but Firefox with tridactyl is most of the way there capability-wise IMO (https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl). I use that plus tree-style tabs and find it excellent. There's always some extensibility limitations that break the integration though, like extensions getting disabled on mozilla domains.

I love projects like nyxt and respect their priorities, but without big-player extension support it's usually a no-go for me. Still, I'll be interested to see the ideas they develop trickle out into the rest of the power-browser ecosystem. I especially like that lossless tree history – history management is a very under-explored UX area IMO

You can let extensions run on Mozilla domains by tweaking some settings in about:config [1].

Mozilla believes that it creates a security risk and that you shouldn't do it.

[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/27/how-to-enable-firefox-webe...

Oh thank you so much! Some of these exclusions make some sense to me but having my ctrl+n mashing interrupted by support.mozilla.com was fairly frustrating. Also security wise if I install a malicious extension with permissions to abuse these domains I'm already a goner haha

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