Comments on: Web Browser Homepage Observations

By: Comença la sessió amb Viquipèdia « Diàspora permanent

Comença la sessió amb Viquipèdia « Diàspora permanent — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:10:56 +0000

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By: Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:52:43 +0000

Reinout: There aren’t any actual requirements on Firefox for the Journal to work. It only really requires chrome and some of the new work on FF3, which is probably very similar to the Google SoC Epiphany project. All our work is inside the browser and avoiding changing any of the button or toolbar elements, which I believe is something Epiphany can completely take advantage of. I’ll email the list to see how we can work together.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:44:35 +0000

Have you seen the homepage in Opera Mini (it’s the mobile browser that works on any Java phone). They’ve been implementing ideas like this for a while and really, it’s one of the best browsers out there, on a phone or not.

By: ReinoutS

ReinoutS — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:41:12 +0000

It would be awesome if you guys could make this available for Epiphany as well. It would be a logical extension of the Google SoC Epiphany project.

By: Paul Collins

Paul Collins — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:45:20 +0000

I use about:blank, with the following added to userContent.css so that I don’t get blinded when I open a new tab.

@-moz-document url(“about:blank”) {
html { background: window; }
}

By: Around the Browsersphere #4

Around the Browsersphere #4 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:07:52 +0000

[...] Bryan Clark follows-up on his web browser home page findings. [...]

By: Luis Villa

Luis Villa — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:06:59 +0000

But they’re actually fairly complementary.

Awesome. Note that an ex-Helix/Ximian guy (Dan Mills) is heavily involved in that effort, so if you need to talk to them about their APIs and such, I’m sure he’d be receptive.

By: Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:28:52 +0000

Joe,

That’s exactly something we can do with this approach and we’d like to plan on that feature. Right now, after a crash you’re presented with a question of “Do you want to restore your session?” and yet it doesn’t actually tell you what your session was.

Our extension could turn that dialog off and simply present you with the links to places you were with the option to open them all in tabs again or click on individual ones and open them.

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:51:46 +0000

You need to give the user a choice before trying to revisit the URLs s/he was visiting before a crash. That’s because it’s quite likely that doing so will cause another crash, if those pages tweak a browser bug.

By: Colin Walters

Colin Walters — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:58:12 +0000

Luis,

Totally! In fact our extension wouldn’t be possible without their infrastructure. However, their current UI mockups are a lot less “take over the browser” than our approach.

But they’re actually fairly complementary.

By: Colin Walters

Colin Walters — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:54:09 +0000

Jens,

Speed dial is related but very different in approach. It’s basically a better bookmarks system.

The Journal *automatically* updates itself as you browse the web, based on your history. It also integrates going to a website with search.

By: Luis Villa

Luis Villa — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:50:17 +0000

You guys know that ffox has a team working on integrated+revamped bookmarks/history for ffox3, right?

By: shivan

shivan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:52:42 +0000

I love the “ctrl+L” + keyletter/keyword in firefox, that works like speed dial, but is less invasive.

By: Jens

Jens — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:42:50 +0000

There is also a speed dial for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810