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Working on a Mac with many web apps open, without losing your place.
Browser Tab vs Window: What Actually Differs on a Mac
The difference between a browser tab and a window on macOS, explained across four layers: window management, browser processes, login storage, and how you find things. With rules for choosing.
Browser tab management extensions after the MV2 cutoff
Many browser tab management extensions stopped being installable this year. Here are the five categories that remain, what each fixes, and the permission each one needs.
Browser vertical tabs: what the sidebar fixes
Browser vertical tabs move the strip to the side so titles stay readable. How to switch each Mac browser over, what the column costs, what it cannot fix.
Chrome extension development: a working introduction
A practical introduction to Chrome extension development: the only manifest version left, the smallest working extension, service worker limits, and permissions.
Multiple accounts and app sharing: three problems
Multiple accounts and app sharing covers three unrelated problems on a Mac. How to tell them apart, what delegated access allows, and what a shared login costs.
Arc browser alternative threads on Reddit, read properly
Searching arc browser alternative reddit returns contradictory answers. Here is why the same thread recommends five browsers, and how to turn it into one decision.
What Is a Browser, and What It Quietly Stores for You
What is a browser, explained through the four jobs it performs: fetching, rendering, storing and extending. Covers engines, the difference from a search engine, and where sign-in actually lives.
Open source browsers worth using on a Mac
Choosing a browser open source enough to audit on a Mac is harder than the search results suggest. Here is what each project really ships, where the Mac builds get thin, and what to change first.