Ask HN: What is your wishlist for a new browser interface?
I'm doing an open-ended exploration on what I'd like a new browser to look like, and the workflows/modalities I want it to unlock.
Pain points:
- Navigating a flat list of tabs feels like a chore
- Tab search only indexes title/url, not the content - If I have 50 tabs opened, currently on tab 35, and remember a vague term I read in one of the 34 tabs before – How do I trace my way back to it?
- Bookmarking should be tag based, not folder based
- History is siloed
My wishlist:
- Tree-style tabs sidebar (like the Firefox add-on)
- Full-text search over open tabs with ability to narrow down on specific sub-trees
- Interaction-aware search ranking. For instance, if you scroll 60% of the way through on one tab and then search for a term that existed at the 55% mark on that tab, it should be show up first.
- Tag based bookmarking
- Built-in annotation tools & Google-docs style collaborative marginalia
- Timeline-based history (Inspired by https://maggieappleton.com/historical-trails)
- Bring your own sync server / self-hostable sync server
- Everything gets saved to a SQLite database, so you can plug it into your own home-made tools
What features would you like to see in a new browser (interface)? What workflows would you want it to unlock?