bonsai-browser

> Browsers are hard. I'm guessing that's why this is in electron, thus I'm guessing it's for browsing something but isn't a "web browser": https://github.com/Bonsai-Desk/bonsai-browser/blob/2d7a08568... ed: I just saw the loom URL below, so it's as much a "web browser" as embedding an ancient version of electron can be. Good for those who want both old software and lack of extensions, I guess

I had the same questions so did some sleuthing and all I could find was a Github repo with a practically empty README (the same repo that's used to service the compiled application) hosted in a personal account: https://github.com/hyferg/bonsai-browser-public This very much looks like someone's hobby project -- which is fine -- but without the source code and given the sensitive stuff we all do web browsers these days, I'm not willing to trust a random developer that their closed hobby project is safe to use.

> It's always good to have more players in this game I agree with your overall points but this but stood out to me because it's not clear if Bonsai uses its own rendering engine of it is just another reskin of Blink / Chromium. What we really need is more competition with browsers which use their own rendering engines. Or at the very least, more browsers using Gecko (Firefox). If this is another Chromium-based browser then it's still definitely good to see some new ideas in UI but we don't really see much other benefit having more players in the game. What worries me the most is that this is closed source but presented as if it is open source. Their binaries are stored on Github but there's literally nothing in the repo aside a README (https://github.com/hyferg/bonsai-browser-public). This is of particular concern given the sensitive cont

Looks really cool and I'd love to give it a shot! Is this intended to be open source? It looks like the associated repo [0] only has a README and some releases with the Mac installers in the assets. [0] https://github.com/hyferg/bonsai-browser-public