Nook Browser
37 points
2 hours ago
| 9 comments
| browsewithnook.com
| HN
monooso
1 hour ago
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Both the browser and the website look remarkably similar to https://zen-browser.app/.
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pmkary
1 hour ago
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Because both are trying to be response to the death of Browser Company's Arc. (https://arc.net)
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LoganDark
1 hour ago
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I think I like the idea, but the structure of the code doesn't look the best. What most sticks out to me is the "Managers" directory. I've seen similar patterns before, even at my current place of work, but they seem to correlate with less experienced implementations. For instance, I clicked on one of them randomly and already found an issue: https://github.com/nook-browser/Nook/blob/09a4c6957a2e9fd7c5...

I guess `www.` (and only `www.`) is always special, and the only TLDs with two components are `"co.uk", "co.jp", "com.au", "co.nz", "com.br"`?

I don't know how critical this "Manager" is (what even is a "boost"?), but a web browser should absolutely have a proper list of TLDs!

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normie3000
14 minutes ago
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> the only TLDs with two components are `"co.uk", "co.jp", "com.au", "co.nz", "com.br".

Is this sarcasm? The public suffix list will give some ideas for omissions: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

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valleyer
9 minutes ago
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Right; top-level comment is saying that those are all missing from the linked code.
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LoganDark
10 minutes ago
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That was me pointing out what was plainly implemented in the code snippet I linked. It is obviously nowhere near the truth.
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jonathantf2
1 hour ago
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Thought this was a browser for my e-reader
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normie3000
13 minutes ago
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I still want something constructive to do with mine - what a sweet bit of hardware.
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cjohnson318
1 hour ago
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Same.
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Zambyte
1 hour ago
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The website says:

> Open-source forever

> Transparent code, permissive license, and a community-driven roadmap.

Which I was going to mention is contradictory, because the point of permissive licenses is that it does not have to be Free forever. But the license is actually GPLv3 instead. So still contradictory wording, but the "permissive" is the part that isn't correct :-)

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65
1 hour ago
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It's nice, but it feels like Yet Another Browser.

I'm interested in seeing all the new browsers that will come out in the next few years that are based off Ladybird. Or alternatively what Ladybird will enable in terms of customization. I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered.

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normie3000
10 minutes ago
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> I think the days of Chromium/WebKit/Gecko forks are numbered.

I'm going out on a limb here and betting they're numbered in the high thousands minimum.

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agoodusername63
4 minutes ago
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chromium/blink is going to be ship of theseus'd before it "dies" imo
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linkage
1 hour ago
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How is built-in ad blocking not the foremost priority? Brave and Comet both have it. uBlock Origin is not as effective as it used to be as of Manifest v3.
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TheRoque
1 hour ago
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uBlock is still as efficient if you're using Mozilla, blame the browser not the extension
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darthcircuit
2 minutes ago
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Very correct. I’m on Zen and UBO works great for me. Chrome based browsers are screwed for ads
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idle_zealot
1 hour ago
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What's up with all the Arc clones? Did people really like the 3-tier tab sidebar thing that much?
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anjel
15 minutes ago
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Who knew you could yearn so much for mousewheel scrolling?
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chrysoprace
47 minutes ago
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Zen (Firefox-based) has been really refreshing. You could probably accomplish the same thing with some user scripts and user CSS, but the concern with those has always been that they could break at any time with a new update. That shouldn't happen with a fork like Zen as they have control over updates.
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orbital-decay
41 minutes ago
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Does it do anything that Sidebery doesn't?
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chrysoprace
36 minutes ago
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An integrated experience. In the past I found that the vertical tab options in Firefox had the tabs duplicated across the side and the top, which I always found to be a subpar experience. Again, probably something you could accomplish with user.js and user.css but there's a good chance an update could break your modifications.
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gcr
28 minutes ago
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If you haven't tried firefox' vertical tabs recently, try it again. Firefox's default vertical tabs UI is quite nice now.
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chrysoprace
14 minutes ago
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Seems quite similar to Zen's experience, except it seems to be missing folders (which I admittedly don't use often, but they're sometimes handy to group a Jira ticket with a PR, or similar). I'll probably still stick with Zen while it's around, and maybe I'll hop over to LibreWolf as I'm not too happy about Mozilla's recent stance on privacy.
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FuturisticGoo
5 minutes ago
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Is it similar to tab groups? It's available on Firefox Nightly, don't know about stable.
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hjkl0
53 minutes ago
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Yes
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bdcravens
1 hour ago
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Given the background color of the site, I initially thought it was a Barnes and Noble project.
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theoldgreybeard
1 hour ago
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This looks exactly like Zen...?
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