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The typical web browser UI is a terrible waste of pixels. It might be a requirement for non-techies but no-one surely clicks the back button or drags the scroll
by exDM69 10y ago
The typical web browser UI is a terrible waste of pixels. It might be a requirement for non-techies but no-one surely clicks the back button or drags the scroll bar, at least no power user does.
I personally use Firefox + vimperator with menu bar, address bar and scroll bars disabled. A single line status bar has all the info I need.
I've also dabbled with some of the "micro browsers" but none was satisfactory without a lot of trouble configuring proxies, etc.
For the future, I am hoping that someone will put together a Servo based micro browser with a keyboard oriented user interface.
- grigory 10y ago> It might be a requirement for non-techies but no-one surely clicks the back button or drags the scroll bar, at least no power user does. IIRC, back button is one of the most used UI elements of a browser. I'd probably consider myself a power user (I work on browsers for a living), and I use and most of the features you've described. Especially scrollbars, they're a great "read progress" indicator. On a side note, we so often forget how small is the bubble of the so-called "power users".