Sidekick Browser Reviews

1. Asef Dian

   | CEO at Bitslay | almost 3 years ago
   So many bugs to fix

   The idea of a productivity based browser is great but since this browser is still new, it has trouble with a lot of things. Sometimes it doesn't open a new tab when i try, sometimes web apps don't open, and overall its not a smooth experience that i could recommend to people

   🏁 Competitors: Vivaldi, Mozilla Firefox, Brave

   👍 Pros:    Everything you need is in the homepage|Looks really pretty|Focuses on productivity|Has control over ram usage and data|A search option that searches all throughout your history, bookmarks, web and everything

   👎 Cons:    A buggy performance|Short term freezes|Might need some time getting used to the web apps

Lightspark Reviews

Sidekick Browser mentions (3)

• Making Twitter likes/bookmarks backup tool as side quest of offline first browser (that saves everything)

  I've been developing frontend in-memory graph DB / state manager for 1) replication 2) incremental sync 3) fast rendering (without VDOM/react). Used in https://seesu.me & https://meetsidekick.com (where I was 1st engineer). Source: over 1 year ago

• Making Twitter likes/bookmarks backup tool as side quest of browser that saves everything

  To make snapshot it takes current state of DOM, current state of styles (to capture CSS-in-JS stuff), take resources like font/images from network storage (Chrome Dev Tools protocol) and saves it as HTML on disk. I've been developing created frontend in-memory graph DB / state manager for 1) replication 2) incremental sync 3) fast rendering (without VDOM/react). Used in https://seesu.me &... Source: over 1 year ago

• Making Twitter likes backup tool as side quest of browser/second brain

  Https://arestov.github.io/linkkraft-notes/trails-tree-plus-offline-for-tool-for-thoughts/linkkraft-fresh-offline-spa.mp4 Across similar software ("too many tabs" solvers, snapshoters) combination of trails tree & snapshots that reinforces is unique in linkkraft. To make snapshot it takes current state of DOM, current state of styles (to capture CSSinJS stuff), take resources like font/images from network storage... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Lightspark mentions (9)

• When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets

  Not the first attempted Flash reimplementation[1,2,3]. The GNU one didn’t work all that well back in the day as far as I remember, but then Flash was a moving target at the time. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ [2]: http://lightspark.github.io/ [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Good flash emulator for walfas?

  A true emulator would be something like Ruffle or Lightspark. Ruffle I know doesn't work well with Walfas last time I checked. I don't know about Lightspark. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Flash game to Html5 converter

  Lightspark, a browser plugin written in C++. It's a work in progress, not every flash content will work. Modern mainstream browsers don't support running it within a page, so flash content needs to be run in a standalone lightspark app, or in some lesser known browsers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How and where do I tell CMake where my C/CXX compiler is?

  I'm trying to install lightspark on my computer, and it hinges on launching a shell script that mainly executes a CMake command. When I try ./build.sh (the name of the shell script), I get a bunch of lines of errors. The first one I think is major is CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.23/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:69 (message): The C compiler "/usr/bin/cc" is not able to compile a simple test... Source: almost 2 years ago

• What "legacy" software are you still forced to use in 2022 that you wish would die?

  I'm having alot of fun with this post actually. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some alternative or workaround for whatever you guys need to run. For example, instead of the clunky Java, we have this. Instead of Flash, try this. Source: over 2 years ago