Don’t browse, quickbrowse!

December 20th, 2009

This site is dedicated to creating  an open-source browser that saves time and makes reading online more enjoyable by combining the full texts of  articles and posts  into a single Web page.

It’ll enable you to  “quickbrowse” through your daily read.

So what’s special about that? Imagine a daily commute requiring you to change trains and buses ten or more times. That’s the equivalent of normal browsing; you constantly switch between pages. You’re probably so used to it that you think it’s natural. But it’s a constant stop-and-go, in-and-out, back-and-forth. It’s unhealthy. Quickbrowsing is like figuring out a non-stop route. No more interruptions; instead you enjoy “flow” during your daily read. Don’t believe it? Check out the more than 1,200 user testimonials about an earlier version of  Quickbrowse (that earlier version does not work with modern Web pages anymore, hence this Quickbrowse 3  project; but you can read more about how Quickbrowse started here).

For three examples for how Quickbrowse can be used, check out the usage scenarios.

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The  next step is  refining the draft description of Quickbrowse3 features. Please take a look at them and add your comments and ideas. This will help us get the concept right before we start creating the software.

You can also tell your friends about the Quickbrowse project by tweeting about it or joining its Facebook fan page. Or just sign up for email updates so you’ll know when the Quickbrowse software is ready.

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The purpose of this site is to figure out how this new incarnation of Quickbrowse should  work. And then create it, as free, open-source software for  Mac, Windows and Linux.

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The video below illustrates the idea with an older version of Quickbrowse for Firefox 2.0.

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The graphic below also illustrates the idea of combining pages. Note that this example combines pages with headlines. View the video above to see how from these headlines another Quickbrowse page is built, combining the full texts of all the articles you want to read.

Quickbrowse illustration