A lot of the excitement was dulled by the fact that a well designed, well engineered app needs money to pay those designers & engineers, and just like this instance, you can never really know whats being leaked or sold, unless it's a large open source project.
Yes, I know the old adage that if you're not paying for a product you are the product, and as I try and simplify my life and focus on having just a few really high-quality items in any category of life, getting screwed so often because of the need for companies to have as much information as possible updated as often as possible is really making it harder and harder to be the technology and internet enthusiast I once was.
> Yes, I know the old adage that if you're not paying for a product you are the product
Now it's just "You are the product". It doesn't matter how much you pay for something. You can spend hundreds on a copy of Windows, or thousands on a laptop or smart TV and still have your data collected and used against you at every opportunity.
It's free software now that's most likely to do what you want without also trying to screw you in secret, but even with open source software you have to watch it like a hawk. So much good software goes bad eventually and even well intentioned programs can have their own ideas on how much data is okay to send to third parties.
Very much so. I find myself wanting to pay for software. Once if it's just one major version, sub if there are indeed online up and running costs. But it has become so difficult to find honest solutions I just return to foss projects and donate some money.
Sometimes this isn't ideal, and then I go through the process again. It's baffling. There are some good companies out there ofc, and I do hope they continue doing the right thing.
Especially as all it offers is a tab tree and split content windows. Something that you can have since ages in Vivaldi natively or with just two add-ons in Firefox.
Also it's of course not a new browser. It's just the next Chrome GUI.
The "Peek" feature they showed in a tweet seems cool, is there an extension for that in Firefox? Where you can get a tab-within-a-tab to view an article or etc without opening a tab yet. I would definitely install an extension to be able to right-click "Preview Link" or "Preview Tab" or etc. I did a quick search for "Preview Link" and "Peek" and nothing really showed up. There was one "simple link preview" but I tried installing it and it just seems super buggy so I uninstalled.
The part I like lost about the peek feature is when it happens elsewhere in the OS. I click a link in outlook or iMessage and I pops up right there in context without jumping all the way to my browser. ESP nice for unsubscribe links in emails.
Despite my snark, I am genuinely curious after seeing a bit of what it actually looks like in their design meeting video. What are the unique features and what do you like about it?
For me the spaces organization, and how they handle tabs is really nice. Cleaning up open tabs every night (being keeping the archive if you need to re-find) is nice, and moving certain tabs up to the favorites area that are long-lived is nice. There's nothing super major that changes for me, but if you're the type of person that collects tabs and then doesn't do a great job organizing them, it could be really nice.
A lot of the excitement was dulled by the fact that a well designed, well engineered app needs money to pay those designers & engineers, and just like this instance, you can never really know whats being leaked or sold, unless it's a large open source project.
Yes, I know the old adage that if you're not paying for a product you are the product, and as I try and simplify my life and focus on having just a few really high-quality items in any category of life, getting screwed so often because of the need for companies to have as much information as possible updated as often as possible is really making it harder and harder to be the technology and internet enthusiast I once was.