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Biscuit — A browser where your favorite apps won't get buried in tabs
Biscuit is a free browser where your favorite apps won't get buried in tabs.
- Clearly separate your work and your personal stuff
- Individual sessions for each app
- Related tabs will be organized automatically
- You can set notifications freely for each app
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@spekulatius1984 There is an appimage version for linux. https://github.com/agata/dl.bisc...
@spekulatius1984 yup, that's where the download link from their website links to. they don't appear to be open source at the moment as there are only 2 files in the github repo.
Light, functional, free, unlimited, low-consumption and overall great.
Everything that Station, Stacks, Rambox, Ferdi, Franz and Shift.. isn't.
It couldn't be any simpler to any new websites and it works flawleslly.
I like it, especially the sidebar not simply being icons (like most competitors). Shame it can't add WhatsApp though, it thinks the version of Chrome is out of date.
@ryan_roberts1 Thank you for your feedback. Biscuit is using latest version chrome 76. We are going to support What's up web on Biscuit. 💪🏻
@ryan_roberts1 Supported WhatsApp now in new version. Please relaunch the app.
@agata Thanks for the quick update 👍
I've noticed another problem. When a Gmail notification comes through, if I click the macOS notification it opens a popup window in Biscuit and a new tab in the Gmail browser but neither of them open the new message.
I dislike the fact that the underlying engine is Chromium. You should better go with firefox. However great piece of software.
@alexwulf8 Do you know of any consumer ready Electron alternatives that don't use Chromium? I've not been able to fine anything.
This is awesome! One thing I noticed though is that sessions aren't shared between multiple apps within a group. Why is that? For example, I logged into gmail in one app in the work group, tried adding google sheets and it didn't re-use the same session.
@ashok_raju Thank you for your feedback. Because it provide simple way. If it can share session each apps, users should choose session in adding apps. It is complex for users.
@ashok_raju @agata I like the way tabs work independently. I’m a freelancer and I work with different agencies. In a group, I am using two gmail accounts for work + a google drive linked only to first account + Google Chat linked to second account + a GCP account linked to another shared Google account. All these work perfectly without messed up in sessions like in chrome or safari.
Very happy with the concept. Will be glad to pay for it. Great job!
Just downloaded and set things up. Very, very easy to get going, and I love the simplicity! I'm a freelancer but I also work with two regular agency clients and they have their own systems and apps, so I can keep those accounts separated on Biscuit and use regular Chrome for the rest of my freelance work. Great job @agata!
I really like the idea of a separate app that I can open and check out all my updates from various sites then close so i don't get distracted. I've tried @stationhq, @ramboxapp, @get_shift, and more.
Great features:
- The grouping feature in Biscuit, although simple, is a great feature.
- I also like that if I click a link in an app it opens a new tab instead of opening the tab in my browser.
Questions:
- Are the applications hibernating after a certain amount of time? If so, what is that time and could it be optional per app?
Issues:
- When I run the 1.0.3 appimage on Linux Mint 19.1 the application icon is not displayed correctly.
- If I make the sidebar the smallest I can the group button disappears, and the group names are tiny. Could the group names be set to display some sort of alias instead? ie. the first letter in the group name, or all the capital letters in the group name
- Some of the custom apps that I have added, discord and protonmail, have signed out after the app has hibernated and i try to open the application. Is this a feature or a bug?
@chris_maclellan Thank you for great feedbacks.
Questions:
> Are the applications hibernating after a certain amount of time?
The apps are not hibernating after selected app. I have plan for hibernating for not often used apps automatically.
> Issues:
I will check the bugs.
> - If I make the sidebar the smallest I can the group button disappears
It's an interesting opinion. You can use menu item (Menu > File > Add new group) or a shortcut(Ctrl+G).
@agata I went through and retested a number of other similar apps the other day, and i find your's has the most features that I like.
Are you thinking of open sourcing your code at some point?
@chris_maclellan Thanks you very much. Yes, I would like to publish the code. ;-) I should improve the code for easy to development with others. (e.g. write README, Improve complex codes and more.)
This is really great but it buggy sometimes when I rename group I cant type anything so I should restart and it would be perfect if this support third party plugins like chrome does
When I go to sign in to Gmail is says ‘couldn’t sign you in - this browser or app may not be secure’ and won’t let me continue?
Is it also soon available as portable version? Or do I have the possibility to use it at an USB drive?
Pros:It pleases me. A logical structure and a quick processing.
Cons:Nothing till now
@prometheus_parlowski do not ask me why I do not know, but all applications made in electron are not made to use portable, nor do you want to have the option to change installation directory they simply self-install in disk C:
I love how it allowed me to solve my tab hell. It is really clean and just works. My only issue is that I work with several add-ons to GMail, one in particular !streak is critical for my work. ?agata are you planning to add this capability? Also, I love you can just add any URL, super useful!
Hey Toshigata. Very nice piece of software. I'm willing to help developing it. Need some help? Get in touch, if needed.
Thanks for Great Apps, I enjoyed on hoarding my free clouds storage :), any apps individual session working great, but can you provide menu to check whether or not an upgrade on chromium engine? Thank You very much
Been waiting about three years for @stationhq to do some really basic stuff like killing the ugly menu bar, supporting custom URLs, and allowing me to last two sessions without breaking MS Teams. Biscuit knocked it out of the park immediately, then followed through by letting me do shared sessions between my apps (no more private sessions/other browsers to drop into dev environments). And for all those obsessed with screen real estate, Biscuit lets you remove enough UI elements to let every app be full screen, minus a small chunk on the left for the toolbar (which you can shrink to just icons). You have a user for life. Would gladly pay for this.
You should have a user so you don't lose the apps when installing biscuit on another pc
Great app. Are you willing to support auto correct in typing like in chrome browser ?
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