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Initially I imagine anyone who downloaded this browser would know exactly what they were getting into. I'd download something like this if it was noticeably fas
by frereubu 6y ago
Initially I imagine anyone who downloaded this browser would know exactly what they were getting into. I'd download something like this if it was noticeably faster and leaner than other browsers, as long as I could do some kind of quick switch to another, like I do with bangs for Google on Duck Duck Go.
- brundolf 6y agoThe quick-switch idea is interesting. I don't really know how it would work here (embedded Chromium?), but I think the analogy to DuckDuckGo is the right one. DuckDuckGo started as a service for privacy-enthusiasts, and as privacy awareness has become more mainstream we've seen mainstream adoption of it despite its shortcomings compared to Google's results. It a) offered something Google couldn't, and b) became "good enough" on the other axes, and that was enough for regular people to adopt it.
- frereubu 6y agoI presume it would in a similar fashion to Zoom on Mac (I have't used Windows in a while) where Firefox prompts you to open a Zoom meeting link in another application (i.e. Zoom), which you can ask FF to remember so the link is automatically opened with that app next time.
- brundolf 6y agoHmm. I think the destination app has to support that directly though, doesn't it? http: links should automatically go to your default browser, of course, but that would require that this new browser is not your default browser. Maybe you could hack around it in some way; I'm not a native desktop app developer so I don't really know just how much leeway one of those has within the host system.