minbrowser
An update on this project
Hi everyone, I wanted to give an update on where this project is at:
- Since Min started 7 (!) years ago, I think it's mostly accomplished the original goal of providing a fast, minimal browser. While it's never going to be feature-complete, I think a lot of the necessary features have been filled in.
- Secondly, my life has gotten busier and I have more other commitments than I used to, and as a result, have much less time to work on this project. As you've probably noticed, the pace of changes has slowed down a lot, and I don't see that changing.
I still plan to maintain Min – I'll continue fixing bugs, reviewing PRs, and updating to newer versions of Chromium – but for the forseeable future, I don't expect to spend much time on continuing to add new features. There may occasionally be exceptions to this, such as multi-window support, which I hope to finish sometime soon, but largely my goal is for Min to remain stable with the existing set of features.
If anyone has questions, please let me know!
Would you be willing to continue work on it if I sponsored for $100 per month?
"Stable with the existing set of features" is a phrase that I wish I heard more often.
It could be a great browser for someone to fork and develop new ideas with. Min's story isn't over yet!
Anyway. Thank you for raising the bar.
I've got a private fork of the browser and am working on:
- better default adblock settings (gui controls in settings)
- firefox style screenshotting of page elements
- improved DeepL-based and local webpage translation
- per-site privacy controls
I will release my fork once I'm happy with its development and non-bugginess. Source code will be provided with binaries
Sorry for the lack of updates here, but I think I'll start to have more time again in the near future, so I plan to start working on this a bit more again. The architectural changes for multi-window support are basically done and I've been slowly working out the bugs in it (branch); I think it will be complete in the very near future (I'll go ahead and open a PR in case anyone wants to review it). After that, I'm not sure what exactly I want to work on next; I'm still thinking about which changes would be most impactful.
@du82 Do you want to discuss your translation changes somewhere? I was thinking about dropping support for the current built-in translation feature, because usage of it is almost zero, but if you've come up with a better version that could be very nice to integrate.
Sorry for the lack of updates here, but I think I'll start to have more time again in the near future, so I plan to start working on this a bit more again. The architectural changes for multi-window support are basically done and I've been slowly working out the bugs in it (branch); I think it will be complete in the very near future (I'll go ahead and open a PR in case anyone wants to review it). After that, I'm not sure what exactly I want to work on next; I'm still thinking about which changes would be most impactful.
@du82 Do you want to discuss your translation changes somewhere? I was thinking about dropping support for the current built-in translation feature, because usage of it is almost zero, but if you've come up with a better version that could be very nice to integrate.
I can open a new issue to discuss it if you want, or we can talk on Matrix
Can you make an issue or use the discord (link in readme)?
I'll make an issue, I will not make a discord account because its proprietary