Doogie
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SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
15 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Hierarchical tabs prevent getting lost in links
From 2 comments
I switched to Firefox (dev edition) a month or so ago almost completely becuase the TreeStyleTabs extension is better than anything for chrome. I LOVE having nested tabs. It…
jdc0589 on HN> besides it being difficult to navigate between them That's it. Hierarchical pages makes it really easy to contextually browse or what I call "immutable browsing" which is never…
kodablah on HN
Bubbles feature sounds great
From 1 comment
Bubbles sound like a really great feature! I'll be waiting on a Mac version too so maybe this already exists - but it'd be awesome to be able to pin domains to bubbles so they…
mcintyre1994 on HN
Objections
No macOS version yet
From 2 comments
No OSX support? :( :(
Cacti on HNLooks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
mateuszf on HN
Fails to run on Ubuntu due to Qt version
From 1 comment
Cool idea. Can't run on the latest Ubuntu though, it seems the latest Qt in the Ubuntu repos is 5.7? ``` $ ./doogie ./doogie: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version…
cjbillington on HN
Requests
macOS support
From 2 comments
No OSX support? :( :(
Cacti on HNLooks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
mateuszf on HN
Vim or Emacs keybindings
From 2 comments
Looks great! I'll wait for the OSX version. Also - vim or emacs shortcuts would be appreciated.
mateuszf on HN> My fear is that even if I develop a OSX version, it will become stale Being open source and hosted on Github, I doubt that will be a problem. The Mac community is rather…
dotancohen on HN
Side or vertical tabs in Chrome
From 2 comments
Great work! I never understood why this isn't the default. Hopefully this will finally gain traction in mainline Chrome. But I'm not holding my breath...
moe on HNNever. Chrome had side tabs, but some being wiser than all others determined unreadable microtabs to be the appropriate punishment for the sin of opening too many (good thing…
otakucode on HN
Questions
What problem does it solve?
From 1 comment
What problem is this solving exactly?
bradhe on HN
Why CEF instead of QtWebEngine or QtWebKit?
From 1 comment
You should look into distributing an AppImage. Its author has a very nice script that you can use to ship Qt apps that works on all linux distros:…
jcelerier on HN
Alternatives named
Firefox with Tree Style Tabs extension
From 2 comments
I switched to Firefox (dev edition) a month or so ago almost completely becuase the TreeStyleTabs extension is better than anything for chrome. I LOVE having nested tabs. It…
jdc0589 on HNThe Firefox extension "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" by Mozilla has the exact features you mention. I've been using it ever since it was first released as a Firefox Test…
tradesmanhelix on HN
Tabs Outliner Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I love this way of managing tabs and windows! Today I approximate this by using Chrome and the under-appreciated Tabs Outliner[1] side-by-side. [1]…
CharlesW on HN
Vivaldi sidebar tabs
From 1 comment
Vivaldi has sidebar tabs, chrome under the hood.
rasz on HN