What kind of privacy grantees does Whist make? Having more of the browser in the could could open up new opportunities for snooping either to sell data, or by state actors. Do you have a warrant canary?
I like the alternative of treating tabs more like bookmarks better.<p>So instead of explicitly bookmarking a page, not closing a tab is the indicator that you may be more interested in this page in the future than any page you visited in the past. In the meantime, you don't think that having many bookmarks requires more RAM.<p>As for the faster load times, I can see the lure, but I think it's a sellout. I'd like to know the resource footprint and incentivize website makers to make websites possible to run on computers without cloud GPUs.<p>Other than the fact that this browser doesn't solve problems that I'd like to have, I think that more browsers is both necessary and good. While they may rely on Google's browser engine technology (Blink), having more front-end diversity surely contributes to a better browser market.
For a while now, I have been thinking of switching to Windows 365. This is halfway there because the heavy tabs are streamed from the cloud, but I am starting to think that the only way I can trust software to work is with a monthly fee. This has the added advantage of being able to switch to a thin client, and the data restoration and storage is paid for and is someone else’s problem.<p>But then I think there is another side to this. Windows has always continued with this cycle of planned obsolescence. The latest iteration was the worst. My copy of Microsoft Office 2019 slowed to a crawl after the Windows 11 update. Then, I had to buy a 365 subscription. That Office license was supposed to be good for life. I won’t forget that!<p>So I set up an older computer with 4 gigs of ram with Mint. It is snappy. I bought Crossover. It runs Word, but not PowerPoint. Unfortunately, it is difficult to get a copy of Office 2016 that is stable with Wine/Crossover. So again I am stuck paying the Microsoft Mafia. Honestly, I am fine with paying. What I am not fine with is them adding no new features, and bogging down my hardware so I need to buy another machine.<p>I also feel acutely the need to get control of my email back from Google, as many others do.<p>The reason I, and I think a lot of others want privacy is because they are sick of the obsolescence kill switch. Give me light hardware and web applications that can get as much cloud processing power to run as needed, and I would be happy. But I really need to trust that cloud provider and I don’t trust Microsoft. After all, they are using emails to get URLs to scrape for Bing. Not good.<p>Maybe this is a nice balance of a cloud operating system and local control.
It is funny where we are right now. After blowing up classical web pages to over-complex web applications that eat up memory, bandwidth and battery, we now think it is a good idea to optimize this by streaming these complex applications to clients?<p>To be honest: my fist take was "this has to be satire" - but this is really a product. Wow.
I'm very interested in this idea as my non-work laptop is pretty old at this point and is struggling with chrome lately. How does Whist's resource utilization scale as you increase the number of tabs?
This looks super epic. Can't wait to get access to it... contemporary browsers have remained pretty much the same – and slow – despite many user software needs advancing. Congrats to the team.
I’m excited to try this out. The idea of cloud hosted browsers is not new, but this approach seems really promising. In this era of connectivity and cloud compute, it makes so much sense.
I can imagine this making a lot of sense for engineers working on embedded linux while not needing to SCP things back and forth to a build machine if a good web IDE was supported
This sounds like an interesting idea, it would be nice to have a better and faster browsing experience. Is it going to be a 1-time payment or a subscription kind of thing?
Very closer to link without waiting, I think if you are in hurry, this could be the best option to manipulate your preferences in the web site. Can’t wait to try it