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  • https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/firefox-experiments-i-would-have-liked.html
  • colect extensions that does similar thing and compare it to Mosaic model:
  • Tile persistance
    • well, I loose all my tiles when I do a refresh :(
  • Find on a page (⌘F)
    • implemented in a copy cat fashion not to alienate people
    • instead it might focus URL bar with [In Page] pill in front of a blinking cursor and search icon somewhere near-by
    • use via "!inpage" bang
  • Switch tiles by dragging?
    • alt dragging one tile over the other and releasing, could rearrange tiles so that they will switch the places
    • scenario:
      1. I have screen with Reddit and Work shared as 1:2 (terrible idea, but the idea is you won't fall into uninterupted procrastination cycle if you'll keep disruptor present)
      2. Alt-dragging Reddit onto a work tile
      3. Now I have Reddit 2 times bigger than work (again, keeping the disruptor present)
  • There is no indicator/screen when there is no tile present
  • Picture in Picture? Not for video, but as a floating tile
  • Zen mode – temporary showing only single tile
  • Adding "+" button for new tab in the stack would be nice
  • Visual non-linear history
    • I want to see a high-level nodes-and-edges visualization of my browsing history – it is going to be probably a let down.

Inspiration

Crazy ideas

  • Keeping history in Git – Might have super interesting consequences.
  • Built-in web server – Opera had built-in web server, which was über cool! Chrome has DevTools that are super powerful. Marrying the two might end up looking like this:
    1. I open new tile, pull up DevTools for that blank page. Edit source of it, e.g. add <h1>Hello world</h1> to it, push a toolbar button called "Live Share" and bam – I've got shareable URL that I can send to Steve. Steve opens it and see page with a header spelling "Hello world". Then I switch to DevTools and change word "world" to "Mosaic". Steve immediatelly see the change on his end.
    2. I'll add <form><input /><button /></form> and some action logic, and surprise, surprise Steve's hitting of a button will deliver the message "somehow" to me. Absolutely no idea how to do it.
    3. Already exists – https://beakerbrowser.com/
      • uses hyper P2P protocol, not HTTP, otherwise extra cool
  • Integrated BOINC – Enabled by default without switch is bleh. Enabled with switch doesn't sound really nice. Maybe "share your CPU for Science" :D Not really. It is a bad idea.
  • Visual clipboard – drag&drop into clipboard situated in a near-by panel. Should be great for researching stuff.
  • Social browsing – you'll be able to interact with people visiting the same site in real-time.
  • Visual non-linear history – history that can branch like a git repo, always preserved navigation metadata, i.e. answering questions like "How did I get there?", "What did I do there?".