Rome Cluster Web Browser Concept

In this article, I would like to present to your court my idea of ​​a new type of web browser. I called it no less than Rome, and the main feature of this browser is its ability to create clustered work areas and increased efficiency in working with links.

Let's go in order.

A bit of history. The very idea of ​​such a concept came to me when I surfed the Internet in search of suitable and reliable information about startups, what it is, what they eat with and whether it is necessary at all. This stormy activity brought a huge number of open links in the browser to the flesh before opening and filling another window, as a result, the computer began to slow down, and after launching the torrent in order to download the necessary book, it generally hung up (the machine is weak, but I’m sure that I’m not the only one I use and set such tasks). This all led me to a number of thoughts about the essence of modern browsers and the convenience and effectiveness of their use, it was these thoughts that led me to develop a browser concept that can provide advanced user capabilities and not fail with an increase in the number of open links.

The tasks that I set for the future browser:

1) Multifunctionality. The essence of the task lies in the fact that no matter what important information we are looking for from us, most likely [100% in my case], one or even two instant messengers are launched [VK, fb, + mail, etc.] and every time a message arrives, you need to get out of the site where you are sitting and look for the link where the message came from, given several open windows - a rather uncomfortable situation. That is why the browser should have been able to assemble a cluster from windows where all the necessary sites would be collected.
2) It should be convenient to use a large number of links while not overloading the computer.Classic browsers have certainly useful ones, but as it starts to seem to me, not in all cases necessary. The reason is that when you open a link, the browser starts to load it automatically, spending a computer resource on something that you are not currently using.

Implementation Ideas:
1) The ability to form a cluster is behind multifunctionality. What do I mean by a cluster? In this case, the cluster is a certain amount of links (no more than 4), which forms the user's working area within the web browser window. Figure 1 shows the cluster browser window divided into two workspaces. The size of the areas may vary depending on the movements of the slider placed on the axis.


Picture 1.

The workspace can take such configurations depending on the position of the slider:

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Fig. 2

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When I showed this idea to friends and acquaintances, they had a rather logical question: “Why?”. The largest window is the user's main workspace, small windows are auxiliary zones, where only messengers from social networks and mail monitoring are placed (you can put an rss feed there). All this will allow minimally distracting to the outside, to do their work.
2)The need to unload the computer from the bad work, I think is crucial. The idea is to distinguish between the zone of links that you need to read right now and those that you read a little later. The former open as in the classic browser tray, the latter are sent to the “Link Archive” (Figure 1, button in the right corner of the screen). Such a system will allow you to use only those links that the user intends to use right now and after use, or close or send to the archive, in the same way the system simultaneously loads only a few links and one cluster, instead of dozens of links, you must admit - this is quite economical.

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Appearance of the "Link Archive". This situation also makes it possible to roughly navigate what link is open, in contrast to the small icons of the classic browser.

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A drop-down menu that allows you to display an archive link in a cluster or a separate window (with the subsequent possibility of forming another cluster).

I am well aware that the idea is pretty crude, but your comments are interesting to me.

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