In-Browser Browser

By Jonathan Lam on 01/18/16

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Introducing another mini-project of mine just for fun: the In-Browser Browser. It's a minimalist tabbed web-browser-like interface inside a tab. I meant to create it as a cleaner interface and simpler to use.

There are only two controls:

• Shift ⇧ + Enter ⏎ Open a new tab.
• Shift ⇧ + Ctrl Show all tabs.

You can open as many tabs as you would like (although it is not advisable to open past four or five because of the resource-drain of jQuery animations), and you may close as many as you would like. A limitation is that my website cannot interact with the site in each "tab," and therefore the URL will not update and it will not show the tab's title; also, if the website has a certain header set (such as with Google; hence Bing as the default search engine and "New Tab" page), then it will not work.