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If you think this is awesome you should check out a browser a friend of mine is building called Horse (yes, called “horse”)

https://browser.horse/

The reason I like it is that he’s unified tabs and bookmarks almost, it’s a great UX that looks like some things you might have seen but still feels different.

He’s also got wicked design sense — but I’m biased so. I also feel like I’m doing him a disservice — he’s got one of those silly lifetime deals going right now.

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I'm curious but somewhat discouraged by the lack of a single screenshot. I don't want to install a minimalist browser that won't have extension capability and a lot of other features just to see if I like one thing that it does.

I'm so sorry, this is actually great advice for my friend, I'm sending it to him right now, here's a screenshot:

https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408

I've passed it on, hopefully he'll have the website updated with a screenshot in like... 10 mins

This does look spiffy despite the other limitations. I fully agree that treed history makes far more sense than a flat list and wonder why this has been such a blind spot for other developers. I'll give it a whirl.

Gonna be honest, that website is doing a big disservice for the product. No screenshots and the navigation disappears when I click a link so I have to hit the browser back button to go to the next page.

No screenshots is huge though. That should be front an center for something that is all about the UI experience. Why would I commit $100 dollars to something I can't see.

Thanks for this feedback, sorry I'm so late in getting to it, but here's a screenshot:

https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408

I'm talking to pascal right now and urging him to put a screenshot up!

I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Your comment is completely earnest, but the website seems to be a send up of websites that don't tell you anything about the product.

But, it does have a 3D horse. So, there's that.

The comment is earnest, and it's not a joke!

Here's a screenshot of the browser: https://twitter.com/PascalPixel/status/1585224743480721408

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Would you mind providing just a little more information? This is clearly an issue but I'm not sure what it could be -- I'm not sure sentry is installed on the site either.

What page were you on where you saw that? Were you not able to load the page itself?

If you wouldn't mind opening up the browser console, I'd love to know what went wrong.

It probably happens due to the disabled hardware acceleration (or just WebGL). At least it's happened to me. Not surprising as the page draws a literal 3D horse.

thanks for this debug -- I think you might be right. I've been talking to the dev and he has to fix his sentry setup! This... might be a while. I'll pass this on though

I’m on Safari on an iPhone loading the homepage.

I have the same on Mull on Android, just the homepage from clicking the link above. Annoyingly there doesn't seem to be a dev console on mobile Firefox so I can't see what the error is.

Have you tried feeding the horse?

I thought this was dumb until I opened his Twitter and read through it for a bit and saw what his vision for it was and how he's creating it. Now I'm interested.

Needs extension support before it's really viable though.

You are a doll! As you can see, I can currently do the silly lifetime deal because I have an equally silly website. Neeeeigh.

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