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I think the main reason people are hating on this is because it's selling itself as something it's not: A smarter browser. Should stick with its original goal.

I think the main reason people are hating on this is because it's selling itself as something it's not: A smarter browser. Should stick with its original goal. I think they created it as a "minimal" browser, hence the name.

bananicorn 9y ago
If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this: https://surf.suckless.org/ https://surf.suckless.org/ But at least the smart part may be of merit. And we all know what HN thinks of electron, but at least bundling chrome with a browser seems reasonable. Not for a minimalistic browser though, I think hence the branding as "a smarter browser". Oh boy, I actually set out to defend the project, but now I realize while there's clearly been some work put into it, some areas haven't been thought out too well... At least it looks nice and clean, that's something. edit: corrected my wording in the first sentence.
- chriswarbo 9y ago
  > If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this: > https://surf.suckless.org https://surf.suckless.org Minimal UI maybe (or maybe not; is there still a truckload of stuff when right-clicking, or pressing hotkeys, or visiting `about:something`?) I'd say lynx, w3m, links, dillo, netsurf, etc. are all more minimal in general.
  - anthk 9y ago
    Ahem, no. Links has right click, even Netsurf has that. About general minimalism, dillo is perfect. For cli, w3m and links are NOT minimal. That is netrik.
    - chriswarbo 9y ago
      Didn't know about netrik, thanks. I wasn't implying that 'right click == bloat', only that there are two meanings for "minimal": a minimal amount of code, or a minimal UI. surf doesn't have a minimal amount of code, since it wraps WebKit; although it seems to have a minimal UI. My point about right-click, etc. is that much of the (GTK?) WebKit UI might still be lurking there. I agree that dillo is really nice. Not minimal in the UI sense though (tabs, toolbar, search box, etc.)

bananicorn 9y ago

If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this: https://surf.suckless.org/ https://surf.suckless.org/ But at least the smart part may be of merit. And we all know what HN thinks of electron, but at least bundling chrome with a browser seems reasonable. Not for a minimalistic browser though, I think hence the branding as "a smarter browser". Oh boy, I actually set out to defend the project, but now I realize while there's clearly been some work put into it, some areas haven't been thought out too well... At least it looks nice and clean, that's something. edit: corrected my wording in the first sentence.

chriswarbo 9y ago
> If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this: > https://surf.suckless.org https://surf.suckless.org Minimal UI maybe (or maybe not; is there still a truckload of stuff when right-clicking, or pressing hotkeys, or visiting `about:something`?) I'd say lynx, w3m, links, dillo, netsurf, etc. are all more minimal in general.
- anthk 9y ago
  Ahem, no. Links has right click, even Netsurf has that. About general minimalism, dillo is perfect. For cli, w3m and links are NOT minimal. That is netrik.
  - chriswarbo 9y ago
    Didn't know about netrik, thanks. I wasn't implying that 'right click == bloat', only that there are two meanings for "minimal": a minimal amount of code, or a minimal UI. surf doesn't have a minimal amount of code, since it wraps WebKit; although it seems to have a minimal UI. My point about right-click, etc. is that much of the (GTK?) WebKit UI might still be lurking there. I agree that dillo is really nice. Not minimal in the UI sense though (tabs, toolbar, search box, etc.)