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groceryheist | 6 months ago

This is so cool! I'm someone for whom emacs has steadily expanded its role in my computing life, but who will never adopt a text-based browser as a daily driver. Looking forward to the stable 4.0 release when I'll be prepared to use Nyxt and hope it can replace Firefox / Chromium as much as possible for me.

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smartmic|6 months ago

I also tried Nyxt, but I never stuck with it. I believe there are different UI contexts depending on the goal. For example, browsing the web is a different task and experience than editing text. That's why it comes naturally to me to use a mouse- and keyboard-driven application, Firefox in my case, for browsing and Emacs for anything text-related.

In other words, using the purely text-driven Emacs interface to browse multimedia web pages does not feel natural to me.

seanw444|6 months ago

I'm in the same boat. Gave Nyxt a good try (as an ardent Emacs user), but I came to the same conclusion that it felt unnatural. Maybe I'll give it another go. Another big downside was the lack of extensions like uBlock Origin, Dark Reader, SponsorBlock, etc.

ijidak|6 months ago

Plug for vimium. I find it hits the keyboard sweet spot for me while browsing.

groceryheist|6 months ago

I use vimium now, but I think with an emacs-based browser I would be better at using the advanced features.