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- The cursor gets lost sometimes, and typing something you see the text and response intermingled with existing visible output.
- You can no longer use the up and down arrows to go to the beginning and end of the input you are typing.
- I usually split the my terminal window into vertical panes. Resizing the width of a pane while using Claude Code does not reflow the output content properly, and this does not happen with any other CLI or TUI I use.
And many other glitches. Why the heck are they unable to produce a TUI that works well, with all their billions and SOTA models?
And the other harnesses are even worse. Using OpenCode is an exercise in frustration. Every few prompts there is an error with the model, API, etc
I am just a regular user that was looking for a Firefox alternative for a long time. I do not know why Helium does not get more attention. It's so fast all the time even with several hundred tabs, it never crashed, it is strongly privacy and safety protecting, I do not have one complaint about it.
Here are some ways the others fall short:
- Firefox and all its derivatives are frequently incredibly sluggish, even on the same machine at the same time other browsers based on Chromium and Webkit are fast. I really wanted to like them, but I just gave up finally. I can't even use Mullvad browser now.
- Safari's interface and UX seems somewhat clunky to me. I tried Orion; it shows a lot of promise as my secondary browser, but, even after updating it today, it has significant UI regressions. And this is for software that's past version 1.0.0
- Brave browser was pretty good, but I was disillusioned by their not taking user protection as seriously, and some of their "scandals"
- Of course, the least said about IE, Edge, Chrome, etc, the better
And I've tried a large number of browsers over the years: IE, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Orion, Zen, Brave, Mullvad, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi etc, etc.