Nostr Web Client

I did leave one browser off from my list to try and that would be Epiphany aka Gnome Web, the problem with it though for Mac is it's severely outdated in MacPorts from what I can see and getting it to run on Windows requires enabling WSL and installing it via Flatpak.

So really other than that and or customizing FireFox/LibreWolf to make it look like Safari with this https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme/tree/master/src/other/firefox you're stuck and I can understand your frustration.

For bookmarks you could use Floccus or XBrowserSync. You can also consider Dashy if you want a dashboard/startpage if you have a spare server laying around or want to use Heroku for your bookmarks + apps.

That's my 2 #sats anyway, hope that helps.

nobody 2y ago

Your help is truly appreciated. It’s not safari itself i’m worried about using, although I have to admit they’ve hit a really nice point of minimalist design. The self hosted bookmarks may help.

The overall experience of the web has just become ass imo over the last few years. There is plenty of blame to go around for my struggles. Some is the EU’s fault (GDPR), some is apple’s fault (safari only on ios), some is just plain weird (the fact that FOSS gave up and just uses chromium for everything, even Qt Webengine).

I imagine the fact that I use nostr just exasperates this. A truly good experience for me is grabbing any device and my bookmarks, extensions, and passwords being in sync. Just adding Alby into that flow makes a mess. NIP-07 on mobile? Nope, not unless you give up your other requirements!

It’s an interesting journey looking at these browsers again. I seriously cannot believe in the age of technology diversity that we’re in (BSD is even experiencing growth!) that there are only two legit choices - Chrome and FireFox - for the web that would offer the experience a normie user would enjoy. I’m far from a normie, and even I find it frustrating.

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Merdellow 2y ago

Don't mention it, it's my pleasure. 😀👍

Totally get what your saying about the web in general and browsers. For whatever reason we never learned the lessons of the browser wars of the late 90's. Look at all the browser engines that have died during that time both open source and proprietary or switched to either Gecko or Webkit or a fork of it like Goanna. KHTML and Presto doesn't exist anymore, Netsurf is on life support as the last update was 3 years ago. The only promising glimmer of hope is LibWeb which powers the Ladybird browser from the Serenity OS team, but that has a long way to go.

I guess we can only hope some enterprising folks see the need and decide to do something about it.