Comments on: Tabbed Browser DNA

By: JimB

JimB — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:02:44 +0000

Hey Adam,

I am pleased to see that NetCaptor is still alive and kicking. I strongly remember NetCaptor and using it late 1998. I quickly determined this was the way browse the web… with tabs. But, my biggest complaint was that when you started it, NetCaptor was supported by an advertising banner. Gosh I hated loosing that real-estate to advertising banner but loved the idea, tabbed browsing.

So I used what little VB knowledge at the time and built my own tabbed browser, SurfTabs. It was a great and fun learning experience. I kept up with it for a few years, but after I moved and additional children, I just couldn’t keep up with a side project like that with growing competition from NetCaptor, Netscape, Opera, Mozila, etc…

Anyway… I am just pleased to see that you have been able to keep up with the big dogs for 7 years now.

Keep up the good work.

Jim

By: Andrew Shuttleworth

Andrew Shuttleworth — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:29:54 +0000

Dan Dodgers said:
“Provide an option (checkbox) such as “Don’t allow Acrobat Reader to view a PDF in browser”. When this option is checked, the browser should always download PDFs and launch Acrobat Reader on them… and NEVER allow Acrobat Reader to load in a browser tab.”

With Firefox you can control this behaviour from the Downloads tab of the Options dialog.

(Unfortunately Firefox (without the SessionSaver plugin doesn’t save tabs when it crashes which NetCaptor does! Very annoying)

Andrew

By: adam

adam — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:42:34 +0000

HJ - Is the flaw in what I wrote or in what David wrote?

By: HJ

HJ — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:22:44 +0000

Hi,

There are a few fundamental flaws, the first is that I hadn’t seen NetCaptor before I started to work on MultiZilla but people kept asking me to include features, so I looked at NetCaptor. However, I had used Opera before.

The second flaw is that David Hyatt wrote that it wasn’t encapsulated cleanly into a widget, but we all know that it took years to mature his widget, which was a plain copy of my widget for which I asked changes in the trunk builds. I have had help from Peter Annema for this widget, but it didn’t work well because, again, I needed changes in the Mozilla tree.

/HJ The MultiZilla Developer.

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I completely agree, and BookLink was NEVER well-known, even within the AOL community. Also, to this day, none of these browsers are as efficient and elegant as NetCaptor’s. NetCaptor’s philosophy of efficient simplicity lends itself to both productivity and speed, qualities hard to find in most software, much less other tabbed browsers.

By: Dan Dodgers

Dan Dodgers — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Here are some ideas for a web browser:

* An ability to save what I typed in forms. Like RoboForm (or Gator) does.

Yesterday I have just written a good post on a form (my blog's form) and I closed the browser window by mistake. This sucks. I lost all my post content.

* Spell checker for HTML forms.

This would help me avoid looking like a loser because of spelling problems.

* Provide an option (checkbox) such as "Don't allow Acrobat Reader to view a PDF in browser". When this option is checked, the browser should always download PDFs and launch Acrobat Reader on them... and NEVER allow Acrobat Reader to load in a browser tab.

Acrobat Reader is VERY ANNOYING because it loads in the browser and locks the browser up for quite some time.