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The PermaTab Web Browser (lee-phillips.org)
30 points by leephillips 25 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



The major design flaw is the monitor stand.

Instead may I suggest an infinitely long flexible screen cleverly arranged in a Möbius loop? This will give you twice as many infinite screens. Patent pending. I’ll take royalties in the form of 10% of all open tabs.


As someone who frequently has hundreds of tabs, I would unironically use such a browser. Arc comes close with its auto tab close but I really wish there was a better hybrid option. Something between bookmarks (losing "live" data - a bookmark of HN/Reddit doesn't have the same links every time) and keeping the full-fat page open, all JS & extensions running unnecessarily even when it's buried 10 windows deep.


I thought Chrome started selectively hibernating background tabs to free memory.


I use Auto Tab Discard [0] on Firefox for that.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...


It does, but it only reduces resources some percent. Having hundreds of hibernated tabs open still slows down the device a lot (especially when using a laptop unplugged).


Looks good, take my money .. but wait ..

    © User Hostile Industries. All rights reserved. We’re warning you.
Should I be concerned?


At least they’re upfront about it.


I solve this problem by adding warnings to different types of close actions

https://i.imgur.com/JfUmijA.jpeg

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/


Has anybody ever considered making a web browser that restricts you to 1 tab and 1 window? I think that would be an interesting experiment. I think the history navigation would have to be a lot better and a lot faster than it is now for that to work.


Firefox Focus on mobile. Not sure on desktop but also not sure how useful it would be.


Great news. I look forward to Microsoft installing this on my computer for me.




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