What does HackerNews think of falcon?

These two (Chromium-based) seem to stand out :

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

https://github.com/crisdosyago/Diskernet

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Similar Mac Only ->: https://www.browserparrot.com/

"AI" Powered -> https://heyday.xyz/

Novel Concept -> https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia

Extend your normal History Search (beyond 3 months) -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...

The upstream of the fork, https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

Neither has been updated in more than a year.

I recommend Falcon[0][1], I wish Firefox had an equivalent. It basically does full-text search of any website visited. I discovered it via HN[2].

[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479977

It seems pretty cool - but I think falcon[0] is more practical. You can install it from the chrome extension store[1], if you are too lazy to get it running yourself.

[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe...

Seems like the Falcon extension has not gotten any updates in the last year or two:

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

Personally I use the QupZilla browser because private browsing automatically starts separate sessions per-process. Before I throw them all away I collect all the urls in a big text file using Windows UI Automation... it's messy but just barely better than nothing.

Never thought about the following (search vs. bookmarks/history) until the HN discussion last week, though I have always typed in google.com before searching just because browser search money seems like a bad incentive:

There is a reason for that – as a rule, browsers don’t really want you to use history. They want you to search and find things multiple times because search royalties are part of their business model.

A couple of full-text-of-every-page-visited Chrome add-ons textually equivalent to a single-computer version of https://pinboard.in/ $25/yr hosted "archiving and full-text bookmark search" subscription (unfortunately for me I don't like Google/Chrome/anti-privacy enough to use as my main browser):

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon "Chrome extension for full text history search"

http://fetching.io/ "your own personal Google -- a search engine for all the web pages you've seen"

https://worldbrain.io/ "Full-Text Search the Pages you Visited and Bookmarked"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recoll-indexe... "copies the web pages you visit to the Recoll web indexing queue"

Source: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984122 (last week)

Also mentioned: Tree Style Tabs Firefox add-on "shows my tabs in the context I opened them from" | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

GraphiTabs Chrome add-on | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graphitabs/dcfclem...

Edit: Added intro w/ my own anecdata.

Another idea: custom browsers per-site-you-use, per HN user megous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170

For each use case that is not a free browsing I create an electron app, that never executes any code from the web or uses any external style