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Nook Browser

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138 points ray__ | 11 comments | 06 Dec 25 03:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source | bottom
1. sph ◴[06 Dec 25 11:20 UTC] No.46172454[source]▶
New browser starter pack:

* Fancy logo

* Blink engine so it's basically Chrome like every other alternative browser

* Mention of AI somewhere on the website

* Minimal UI clearly inspired by Safari

* Heartfelt promises of speed and privacy

* macOS only

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2. RestartKernel ◴[06 Dec 25 12:21 UTC] No.46172761[source]▶
> Minimal UI clearly inspired by Safari

More like Arc † nowadays.

3. frizlab ◴[06 Dec 25 14:46 UTC] No.46173724[source]▶
The engine of this browser is Webkit.
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4. integricho ◴[06 Dec 25 22:00 UTC] No.46176947[source]▶
Anyone can slap a fancy UI on an existing engine and claim they made a browser. So many of them exist now, they don't matter anymore at all. This one will die in the crowd like every other wannabe browser. Build your own goddamn engine and then claim you made a browser, at least the Servo and Ladybird devs are doing some concrete work, not just pointless marketing and empty claims.
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5. ◴[06 Dec 25 22:05 UTC] No.46176985[source]▶
6. ares623 ◴[07 Dec 25 03:15 UTC] No.46178846[source]▶
* made with <3 by humans
7. Suppafly ◴[07 Dec 25 07:45 UTC] No.46179986[source]▶
>The engine of this browser is Webkit.

Thank you, I looked all over their site trying to figure out which engine they were using.

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8. frizlab ◴[07 Dec 25 17:08 UTC] No.46183194{3}[source]▶
My pleasure!

It’s hidden in the first answer in the FAQ at the bottom.

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9. eviks ◴[08 Dec 25 06:44 UTC] No.46189167{4}[source]▶
It's "hidden"in the very first feature point

> Fast by design … powered by WebKit.

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10. frizlab ◴[08 Dec 25 14:38 UTC] No.46192716{5}[source]▶
Oh yeah, somehow I missed it here ^^
11. eviks ◴[08 Dec 25 17:20 UTC] No.46194941{3}[source]▶
> Anyone can slap a fancy UI

It's the opposite, anyone can slap an existing good engine to a bad UI that works well on many sites because it already works for some major browser. Almost no one can slap a fancy UI, and none of these newly sprangeld browsers offer any, they are way closer to the basic fails for Chrome/Firefox where even changing the default keybinds in an exercise in futility, and all the other stuff is similarly bad - for example, in this browser while the have vertical tabs, the 9to5mac example website doesn't fit the tab name and has the … symbol, which is not fancy at all on its own (fancy UI would be something like non-space-wasting fade out instead of text replacement), but also is part of the same low-density-whitespace-wasteful UI nonsense you see everwhere else - while there is enough whitespace in the tabbbar to fit whole ~two next words "...Mac Rumours breaki"