The release of web browser Min 1.20 is now available, featuring a minimalist interface designed around interactions with the address bar. The browser is built using the Electron platform, which allows for the creation of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is developed with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is released under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Min supports navigation through open pages via a tab system, providing features such as opening a new tab alongside the current one, hiding inactive tabs (which the user hasn't accessed for a certain period), grouping tabs, and viewing all tabs as a list. There are tools for creating lists of deferred tasks/links to read later, as well as a bookmarking system with full-text search support. The browser has an ad-blocking system (based on the EasyList) and tracking code blocking, and offers the ability to disable loading images and scripts.
The central control element in Min is the address bar, through which you can send requests to the search engine (default is DuckDuckGo) and search the current page. As you type in the address bar, a summary of relevant information for the current query is generated, such as links to articles on Wikipedia, selections from bookmarks and browsing history, as well as recommendations from the DuckDuckGo search engine. Each page opened in the browser is indexed and becomes available for subsequent searches in the address bar. Commands can also be entered in the address bar to quickly perform actions (for example, "!settings" to go to settings, "!screenshot" to create a screenshot, "!clearhistory" to clear the browsing history, etc.).
In the new release:
- Improved performance when opening websites that use pop-ups.
- Improved detection of password fields and upgraded the interface for saving passwords. An option has been added to disable password saving.
- Established opening links in external applications.
- Added a button to clear browsing history and site data.
- The number of search engines that can be used for generating recommendations during input has been expanded.
- It is now possible to stop the page loading process by pressing the Escape key.
- The interface for editing bookmarks from pages in bookmarks has been simplified.
- Translations for Russian and Ukrainian languages have been updated.
Source: opennet.ru
