Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar (opens in new tab)

Since it took a minute to figure out how to clean that up, maybe this helps other Firefox users:

For me (vertical tabs) at least it was impossible to select multiple entries in the history (ctrl + h) with the mouse. The workaround to remove the entries was to search for beatbar, tab into the list of entries, ctrl + a and right-click -> delete.

History clean again.

Does it? I am doing a location.replace() which doesn't log the URL to history.

Is it? For changing the window location I am doing a location.replace which doesn't log to the browser history. What browser are you on?

It uses soundManager for cross browser audio handling. It first tries with flash and fallbacks to html5 if flash is not available. Firefox with flash disabled wouldn't support mp3, and thus won't be able to play it. I am using SoundCloud api only to fetch streams.

I started with replaceState only, but later I realized there was no specific gain that I was having (other than slightly good looking string without hash). This method also suffers from reload and favicon flashes. If it reliably doesn't log to history (unlike location.replace()), using it could be a good idea. But that also comes with a tradeoff of older browser support issues, which requires using external javascript APIs.

I settled with the standard character sets as I wasn't sure if the fancy unicode character would be available cross platform or not. I'll look for this possibility again. Thanks.

Thanks, fixed.

If there is a feature to be added, this is the one. On track. Thanks :)