An update on this project

[PalmerAL]

Hi everyone, I wanted to give an update on where this project is at:

• Since Min started 7 (!) years ago, I think it's mostly accomplished the original goal of providing a fast, minimal browser. While it's never going to be feature-complete, I think a lot of the necessary features have been filled in.
• Secondly, my life has gotten busier and I have more other commitments than I used to, and as a result, have much less time to work on this project. As you've probably noticed, the pace of changes has slowed down a lot, and I don't see that changing.

I still plan to maintain Min – I'll continue fixing bugs, reviewing PRs, and updating to newer versions of Chromium – but for the forseeable future, I don't expect to spend much time on continuing to add new features. There may occasionally be exceptions to this, such as multi-window support, which I hope to finish sometime soon, but largely my goal is for Min to remain stable with the existing set of features.

If anyone has questions, please let me know!

[du82]

Would you be willing to continue work on it if I sponsored for $100 per month?

[ernstki]

"Stable with the existing set of features" is a phrase that I wish I heard more often.

[textzenith]

It could be a great browser for someone to fork and develop new ideas with. Min's story isn't over yet!

Anyway. Thank you for raising the bar.

[du82]

I've got a private fork of the browser and am working on:

• better default adblock settings (gui controls in settings)
• firefox style screenshotting of page elements
• improved DeepL-based and local webpage translation
• per-site privacy controls

I will release my fork once I'm happy with its development and non-bugginess. Source code will be provided with binaries

[PalmerAL]

Sorry for the lack of updates here, but I think I'll start to have more time again in the near future, so I plan to start working on this a bit more again. The architectural changes for multi-window support are basically done and I've been slowly working out the bugs in it (branch); I think it will be complete in the very near future (I'll go ahead and open a PR in case anyone wants to review it). After that, I'm not sure what exactly I want to work on next; I'm still thinking about which changes would be most impactful.

@du82 Do you want to discuss your translation changes somewhere? I was thinking about dropping support for the current built-in translation feature, because usage of it is almost zero, but if you've come up with a better version that could be very nice to integrate.

[du82]

Sorry for the lack of updates here, but I think I'll start to have more time again in the near future, so I plan to start working on this a bit more again. The architectural changes for multi-window support are basically done and I've been slowly working out the bugs in it (branch); I think it will be complete in the very near future (I'll go ahead and open a PR in case anyone wants to review it). After that, I'm not sure what exactly I want to work on next; I'm still thinking about which changes would be most impactful.

@du82 Do you want to discuss your translation changes somewhere? I was thinking about dropping support for the current built-in translation feature, because usage of it is almost zero, but if you've come up with a better version that could be very nice to integrate.

I can open a new issue to discuss it if you want, or we can talk on Matrix

[PalmerAL]

Can you make an issue or use the discord (link in readme)?

[du82]

Can you make an issue or use the discord (link in readme)?

I'll make an issue, I will not make a discord account because its proprietary