🌎 Update on the Subject Specific Browser

Since I made comment about Subject Specific Browsers, I’ve made half a dozen I use daily. I have a browser for: Amazon and Woot Multiple Wiki sites YouTube QA and automation sites (Katalon, Stackoverflow, Tutorialspoint) Blogging Godville Online Wiki’s for games Streaming And the more I make them, the more I find uses for them. I recently added the Blogging and Wiki browsers to the toolkit. When the WordPress app flaked out on me, using a dedicated browser was a simple solution. Wikipedia is a daily visit, so to try out it’s features, I set it up using Webcatalog. This creates a more app-like feel. I have multiple “accounts” in the browser, then added that to a Space. I’m not entirely sold on the concept yet, but I like the way it’s working. If I find a couple more uses, I’ll add it to the toolbox. Webcatalog is a more application feel, versus full browser experience. By default the address […]

🌏 The Subject Specific Browser with Waterfox

The idea of the Site Specific Browser, led me to the idea of the Subject Specific Browser. Instead of using a tool to reconfigure a browser, why not just install another instance, rename it, then configure it for the sites I want? For example, when working with automation and Katalon Studio, why not have a browser that always loads Stackoverflow, the Katalon forums, Tutorialspoint, and any other Groovy/Java or automation specific sites? This creates a more focused and consistent experience so the browser loads the sites you need to work with. You avoid sifting through tabs or closing the wrong one and create a browser for automation, or C# Programming, or Udemy courses. You won’t get distracted by a previous session in Amazon, YouTube, or the latest review of the Mac Studio You can also gain some privacy. Since companies pillage your browsing history for shopping habits, why not make a browser specific for YouTube or Amazon? Harder to track […]

🌎 A Site Specific Browser with Coherence X and Unite. But Why?

A site specific browser takes a website and dresses up the browser so it looks like an application. This can be for sites that don’t have a native app or you always want the window on top. As an example, always display a Kanban board or float a Netflix window above everything else. It’s also a handy way to keep a website in a siloed workspace. There are several tools to help make a new browser application such as Fluid, Webcatalog, Flotato, Coherence and Unite. In each case, you specify the name of the “app,” the home URL, and app icon. A few seconds later you have a browser dedicated to that site. It’s a neat concept, except some of these tools are ridiculously expensive. For example, Coherence X and Unite are just shy of $30 a piece. Further, you need a separate license for each machine you use the browser on. By comparison, Keyboard Maestro, which has almost unlimited […]

When will Adobe get off their ass and give us 64-bit Flash?

You know we’ll never be able to have 64-bit browsers until Flash goes 64-bit, so Adobe needs to get on the ball and stop holding us all back. Everyone is finally ditching IE6, so it’s time to get Flash updated too. Although just removing Flash altogether and converting everything to HTML 5 would be fine with me too. Seems Adobe has some work to do before their relevance begins to wane just like Microsoft’s.