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Perhaps you may find Hug of your interest… :)

http://www.hug.rest/

It may not last for long on the paper, that's why it is suggested to use ink.

> Jobs: [...] there’s been virtually zero innovation since IBM got dominant control of that market place 15 years ago. They are going to do the same thing in every other sector of the computer market place if they can get away with it. The IBM PC fundamentally brought no new technology to the industry at all. It was just repackaging and slight extension of Apple II technology, and they want it all. They absolutely want it all.

> This market place is coming down to the two of us, whether we like it or not. I don’t particularly like it, but it’s coming down to Apple and IBM.

> [...]

> Playboy: It’s not all competition [...]: You buy your disk drives from Sony, for instance.

> Jobs: We buy many of our components from [...]. We save a ton of energy not having to make and design floppy-disk drives or microprocessors that we can spend on software.

So, nowadays Apple is the new IBM and "needs" serious competition...

The Pacific Timezone (PST) is currently in the middle of the night; I suppose we have to wait for them to wake up.

Why should you dismiss Firefox based on UI similarities ? :/ And, by the way, it's not Firefox being like Chromium in terms of UI…

I've been a long time Firefox user until the early days of Google Chrome and I remember doing the switch just for the amazing startup time of the latter and then being acquaintanced to it. Nowadays I use the Opera (beta) flavor of Chromium due to the team effort in providing a slightly (but appreciable) better experience.

Firefox seems to be in period of internal renaissance which I greatly appreciate; something that remind me of the hype around it during it's 3rd major release.

I tried the Nightly release last week and, being on a laptop, the only thing that currently hold me back is it's lack of a battery-friendly mode – like the one I use daily with Opera – and other little details.

IIRC, yes. I should check again…

That's sadly true, but the reported values were pretty high (~45), even when in idle (~15) with a couple of tabs.

At the moment my "sweet spot" is on Opera with the "battery saver" mode.

I've given it a try, but macOS's "activity monitor" reports a very high energy consumption, so to me it's a big no (being on a laptop).

I've filled a "feedback" about that within the browser UI…

Actually, there was a long running discussion about making a runtime mode of Electron, in order to address many issues: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673

I also recently joined the discussion with a more general idea which I (partially) expressed here: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673#issuecomment...

This list should have been posted weeks ago, when the StackOverflow's 2017 survey asked us about fictional characters and I wasn't able to recall any particular title...

The "defunct" term is an exaggeration allowed due to the fact that the blog audience is composed of "creative" people with focus on fiction and poetry, as you can see from the referenced "Code Poems" work by Hannah Weiner; the author provided an introduction and a not-so-unrealistic status of their use (it isn't a defunct language because you are requested to know them in order to get a boating license; source: I got mine early this year).

I think that @prismatic posted it here on HN because there are people who doesn't know them and are likely to be interested (other than being bewitched by the use proposed by Mrs Weiner).

I was just trying to mitigate your disappointment ;)

> [...] it also has mouse gestures that are core in the browser [...]

> It has one-button keyboard shortcuts [...]

> I can configure activation, deactivation of js, plugins (flash, etc.) [...] I can tell plugins like flash to load on demand [...]

> I can have a vertical tab bar and a horizontal one at the same time.

All of this is still here.

> [...] I have 100+ tabs open and the thing sits at 2 GB [...]

I'm not used to leave opened such a large number of tabs, but even today's Opera seems to handle them quite good (I may be wrong, but I think that Chromium smartly remove some tabs from memory and reload them later, on demand and with cache).

> A very powerful url blocker [...]

If you really need this, I think that /etc/hosts is the way.

> I can actually manually edit menu and toolbar ini files [...]

> I can add custom panels in the side panel [...]

> I can open a list of all links on the current page, filter it by various conditions, select the ones i want and hit "download these to a folder" in one action.

Perhaps extensions (which I do not use) are designed to simplify and customize the process...

> I can edit text-based style [...] to completely restyle the browser effortlessly.

Not really a feature, but a "nice to have". As for myself, I'm ok with the OS-native look.

> Getting to the screen where i can view and edit cookies [...]

> I can disable all CSS for the active page with one click.

I think that you can achieve the same result from the Inspector with a couple of more clicks (that's not a behavior that most users need).

:)

You get my attention and curiosity; it is a browser, what were the "features" that you are talking about ?

At some point I've read that it had an e-mail client, later externalized; if those are the "feature", so I'm also ok with that, as I'm more into Vim than emacs. That's my point. If you're referencing something else, I'm curious. :)

I have to say that I haven't experienced* the 12 to 15 transition that you refer; to me Opera is just a browser that changed over the time and, because I'm not a long date user, I never ever seen it as the advertising medium that you say. Of course they could have chose to better differentiate themselves, but the actual decision/strategy seems to have worked also for me.

BTW, as long as I know, they also pushed some code into Chromium so I see it as a solid step toward the consolidation of web standards by using a common and open base. Better achieved if performance exists as well.

[*]: Even if I occasionally tried some desktop versions of Opera during the years, I've always preferred Firefox and later Chrome as default browser.

Those controversies of Qihoo 360 (stated in Wikipedia for both the society and the product of "360 Secure Browser") and Haier (for their partnership in the mobile platform) can't lead to anything good for Opera (browser).

Also, the presence of a "consortium" for which I haven't read any other relevant name sound like a way to cover the direct acquisition…

What I can see here is: - A Chinese company trying to both comfortably beat their (Chinese) competition while gaining (out of PRC) customers for their "services" (which will likely be integrated within the browser); Which is fine, except for their "controversies". - An executive team (at Opera), that seams pretty all about finance and economics, trying to make the most (money) from an offer in a market (the web browsers one) that is (at least, I think so) hard to remunerate. Obviously those shareholders will be happy; but are those shareholders really involved into the product that they own, or they are just silent speculators who made an investment for the sole purpose of profit when they realized the company's potential of being acquired ?

I'm also disappointed because I used to like the effort that Opera has put into their own browser in the latest months; the same effort that convinced me to adopt their browser (beta version) instead of Chrome and advocate them.

P.S.: Obviously, those are just my thoughts after having read the article; I hope for a more detailed statement from Opera…

For what concern me (ref to my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219018), I was in need of two thing:

- A "cool and easily editable" (as you've pointed out) CV/Résumé (I graduated last month).

- A little project to work on as long as I was (also) studying Javascript in my spare time.

So I merged these things into a useful (for me) one.

The following sharing of the outcomes, is a thing that IMHO one may or may not decide to do. If one (as @StevePerkins says) add "features" that could be useful for others, then I can't see any reason for prevent him/her from sharing it... even if it's just another fish in the sea (furthermore, one can always become the "big fish").

The "funny" thing is that I'm currently working (on spare time) on such a thing for JSON -> [Website | PDF] without even knowing the existence of jsonresume.org etc.

I started from JSON by defining a meta-model with a certain semantic with the aim of rendering it with HTML+Javascript (and using CSS for both online and PDF printed version) but, instead, I should better have checked the web first...

By the way, I really like the "raw" JSON format for the CV/Résumé (perhaps as I have defined it)... if it wasn't for @mixmastamyk point, I'd be glad if it would be accepted as is.