So I've ranted about this in various places on the internet...

Some recent HN comments of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541173

I am 100% down for building this, open source, if I had a team to help me see it through as it's just too much for one person.

Do you have any dev experience / interest in helping create such a thing?

ghostpepper

How much work would it be to convert either Firefox / Chromium / Nyxt into this instead of starting from scratch?

micimize

There are always going to be limitations to extension-based approaches but Firefox with tridactyl is most of the way there capability-wise IMO (https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl). I use that plus tree-style tabs and find it excellent. There's always some extensibility limitations that break the integration though, like extensions getting disabled on mozilla domains.

I love projects like nyxt and respect their priorities, but without big-player extension support it's usually a no-go for me. Still, I'll be interested to see the ideas they develop trickle out into the rest of the power-browser ecosystem. I especially like that lossless tree history – history management is a very under-explored UX area IMO