Minimalist browser 'MIN'

Tired of heavy and sluggish browsers? 

Becoming minimalistic in life might achieve you a sigh of relief. You say what's the connection between minimalism and browsers? I say yes there is, what if all extensions and other plugins which make the browsers crawl were removed and you had a browser which only did its very basic job, browsing.

'Min' is here to help you with a distraction free browsing. Min Is a Minimal, Open-Source Web Browser for Linux, Mac and windows. 

Min isn’t attempting to feature leap Firefox or compete with Chrome but it is here to provide a very basic featured browser based on the 'keep it simple make it smooth' principle

> What Min does to increase speed? 

The app shuts advanced features like add-on frameworks, UI transitions and window chrome to focus on delivering a clean, straightforward web experience.

While Min probably won’t become your default web-browser it’s ideally suited to focused, distraction-free web-based working.

>> Min Does Less, Letting You Do More

Min is written entirely with CSS and JavaScript, and is fully open-source. 
But it’s not solely a plain frame for the web. Min also a few innovative, quirky touches of its own to shout about.

> Focus mode in min

Tabs in Min open to the right of the current tab, rather than the left. It also dims tabs that are open but that you haven’t looked at in a while. This, the website says, helps you “focus on what you’re working on.”

Talking of focus you’ll find an optional “Focus Mode” hidden in the View menu. When enabled it will hide all tabs except the one you’re looking at. Neatly, you can’t open new tabs when in focus mode.

> Tasks in Min Browser

Tasks: You can group tabs into separate
When browsing the web look for the paragraph alignment icon in the tab area. Click it to enable Reading Mode.

This feature does two things: 
1) saves the article for future references and 
2) it strips away everything on the page bar the text so that you can focus on the task of reading.

> DuckDuckGo

The search bar in Min is powered by DuckDuckGo. It can offer quick snippets, answers and web suggestions. Think of it as a DuckDuckGo-powered version of Chrome’s answers in suggest or Safari’s Spotlight Suggestions.

“The  Min searchbar answers your questions immediately, with information from DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more. Jump to any site quickly with fuzzy search, and get suggestions before you even start typing. And when you create a bookmark, the full text of the page is saved and becomes searchable, so you’ll never lose anything again,” explains the Min post-install tour page.

> The browser’s key features at a glance:

Smart results – powered by DuckDuckGo
Reading list – simplifies reading experience, saves articles for 30 days
Bookmarks – searchable
Tasks – split tabs into groups
Focus mode – hides distraction
Privacy features – script blocker

> Drawbacks

There’s no obvious way to navigate back/forward or refresh web pages; there’s no tab pinning and nothing to visually denote page loading times.
You can’t use plugins like Flash, Java or whatever else; you can’t watch Netflix (because it requires a specific module) but most modern web features should work just as well in Min as in any other browser.


In short, if you’re looking for a small, lightweight browser for Linux (or Mac OS X or Windows) Min is well worth taking for a spin.

> Download Min, the minimal web browser, for Linux

You’ll find 32 bit and 64 bit Deb installers available from the main project release page from the link below, where you’ll also find source, Mac and Windows packages.

>> https://github.com/minbrowser/min/releases/


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