If you open the menu and select Customize PolyBrowser, you can add the standard Firefox search bar back, and get rid of Firefox Hello. Also, the tabs automatically collapse in size when there get to be too many, reducing the need to "Pin" tabs. Otherwise, thanks for the punch list! Please let us know if you or someone you know would like to contribute to the project on GitHub to help make these features happen.
No problem, this was my first impression. Those are valuable, so I love to make lists out of them.
I added the search bar, but I can't figure out how to make it bigger. It shows correctly in "edit" mode but shrinks to something very small on the actual browser.
As for the pin tab feature, sure, they get smaller (like they would in Chrome) but I usually pin a media player and my email client to the left, in icon format. I let my 10 other tabs at full width. This allows me to ignore the media player altogether unless I need to change the current playlist.
In poly, I wish I could hide those tabs and only have them display when needed. A minimize tab feature, perhaps.
Indeed, we're hoping that PolyBrowser becomes a platform for experimentation in new experiences on the web... We're not tied down to the old "tabbed" paradigm, which opens up some very exciting possibilities!
We've tapped into Firefox's ability to asynchronously render websites, meaning that the load on one website doesn't slow down the rest... That feature isn't even released yet as a standard feature on desktop Firefox, but we are able to tap into it already.
The move toward responsive web design works perfectly with PolyBrowser... These days you can resize the website down to a narrow strip and get just the key content. We also have a user-agent switch addon that you can use to retrieve the mobile versions of websites.
We've done design surveys and found that most people like the design. That being said, it's impossible to accommodate everyone's disparate tastes. User-generated custom themes are actually the next feature we're adding.
Well, PolyBrowser is designed to make the most of your screen real-estate, not matter what screen size you have. It automatically utilizes your horizontal space for large monitors, and you can zoom out to fit more on small screens.
PolyBrowser also supports large browsing sessions with better memory manegement than Chromium.
We're shooting to add the TreeStyleTabs addon in an upcoming release. PolyBrowser lets you zoom out to see all of your websites at once, so you might want to give it a try anyway.
Our own (limited) FAQ is here: http://polybrowser.com/faqs
It's fully touchscreen-compatible, and you can pan and pinch/zoom with your fingers.