Visual organizational tools are very important to me. I don't care that much about the other stuff tbh :) So the visual categorization and search looks like a huge win. They're somewhat organized with tab groups but the overhead of managing them is a huge pain point for me. I typically have hundreds of tabs open and my sanity maintenance method is to keep their number under 256. I've been griping about the tedium of trying to organize tabs (and to a lesser extent bookmarks) for a long time. 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. This is of particular concern given the sensitive content that people use browsers for these days (banking, shopping, research on potentially sensitive topics, etc). Their binaries are stored on Github but there's literally nothing in the repo aside a README ( ). What worries me the most is that this is closed source but presented as if it is open source. 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. Or at the very least, more browsers using Gecko (Firefox). What we really need is more competition with browsers which use their own rendering engines. 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. > It's always good to have more players in this game We are fixing up our Linux and Windows versions for public use. Instead of an add-on solution to Chrome which would create more noise, we are creating a fully functioning, organized way of managing information overload and keeping you on task as you go through your work day. The current mixing of research type browsing with web-documents creates a mess and makes people think they want a ‘cloud file search’. We now think that the main problem is that web browsers are actually not currently suited for doing research. It turns out that this already been done and it seems that people actually just pull up their documents once at the beginning of the day anyway. We then considered making a spotlight application to find and organize these documents. Later, a friend in industry mentioned that he had a hard time finding ‘cloud documents’ as part of his job. This would mean that it would be impossible to make a citation manager that everyone would want to use. After talking to some other PhDs/postdocs the takeaway was that everyone has very different ways of doing research. Initially we wanted to make a citation manager because myself and a friend had an unconnected workflow moving research articles from Chrome -> Zotero -> Emacs org-mode. You can watch a 2 minute video walkthrough here or download it from our website Both open tabs and pages in your workspaces are just pointers to a node in your history tree! The history data structure is a tree which shows how pages are back-linked to each other and to spatial workspaces. Tabs are grouped by domain for easy organization. You can toggle it on with a hotkey and it can overlay on your IDE. It helps you look up docs and search information. We’re focused on making a web browser for programmers to improve their workflow. Hello, I’m Cameron and one of the two people working on the Bonsai web browser.
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