Great rundown of Edge! Used the one’s you’ve listed as well and stuck with Edge for a while, too.
Now I’m with Vivaldi, and I’ll nominate it for a slightly different category: The Emacs of web browsing—it has everything, but it could be better at quickly loading web pages.
Software: Vivaldi
Need: customizable web browser for keyboard-centric power-users
First cons, why I would generally still recommend Edge:
Vivaldi is more resource heavy
Vivaldi is slower than browsers like Edge or Chrome
Vivaldi requires a more personalized setup
Now, what makes it best for the power-user in my opinion:
Keyboard centric via “universal search”
hit F2 and search for everything in the browser, like
Bookmarks
open Tabs
All Actions in the Browser
Navigate links on webpages with shift+arrow keys
Very customizable UI
Most UI-Elements can be repositioned, the Tab bar can reside on either edge of the screen, the address bar can be effectively turned off
Might replace some applications, especially if you spend a lot of time in a browser
included email client
included RSS reader
included notes-app
includes web panels like Opera
Powerful Tab management
includes tiling in-browser, akin to tmux or similar
tab-grouping per host
tab-grouping with “accordeon tabs”—group tabs horizontally next to each other
tab-grouping with “tab stacks”—stack tab on top of each other and gain access to a second row of tab bar just for the active stack
Misc
Can perform macro-like chains of actions within the browser
See also Nyxt. I haven’t tried it myself yet, as its macOS support seems to be immature, but it is one of those projects I have an eye on. It could one day be the emacs of web browsers.
Great rundown of Edge! Used the one’s you’ve listed as well and stuck with Edge for a while, too.
Now I’m with Vivaldi, and I’ll nominate it for a slightly different category:
The Emacs of web browsing—it has everything, but it could be better at quickly loading web pages.
Software: Vivaldi
Need: customizable web browser for keyboard-centric power-users
First cons, why I would generally still recommend Edge:
Vivaldi is more resource heavy
Vivaldi is slower than browsers like Edge or Chrome
Vivaldi requires a more personalized setup
Now, what makes it best for the power-user in my opinion:
Keyboard centric via “universal search”
hit F2 and search for everything in the browser, like
Bookmarks
open Tabs
All Actions in the Browser
Navigate links on webpages with shift+arrow keys
Very customizable UI
Most UI-Elements can be repositioned, the Tab bar can reside on either edge of the screen, the address bar can be effectively turned off
Might replace some applications, especially if you spend a lot of time in a browser
included email client
included RSS reader
included notes-app
includes web panels like Opera
Powerful Tab management
includes tiling in-browser, akin to tmux or similar
tab-grouping per host
tab-grouping with “accordeon tabs”—group tabs horizontally next to each other
tab-grouping with “tab stacks”—stack tab on top of each other and gain access to a second row of tab bar just for the active stack
Misc
Can perform macro-like chains of actions within the browser
See also
Nyxt. I haven’t tried it myself yet, as its macOS support seems to be immature, but it is one of those projects I have an eye on. It could one day be the emacs of web browsers.There is also https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework, but the security might be sketchy. I am not holding my breath for performance either.