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Ghost Browser

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Ghost Browser helps you focus on the task at hand and get stuff done in a private clutter free environment.
This is the 2nd launch from Ghost Browser. View more

​ Ghost Browser 2.0

​ The productivity browser that helps you get stuff done. 👻

Ghost Browser 2.0 is a task based productivity browser that helps you get stuff done.

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Sharif Khalladi
Hunter
​Web browsers... you can't live with 'em... you can't live without em... If you're anything like me you tried the new Firefox Quantum last month (and eventually switched back after realizing it can't handle the 200 tabs you always keep open), you were on Opera Neon faster than you bred your first "CryptoKitty" after seeing that launch video (we love you Opera) and when Brave launched a cryptocurrency called BAT, well... you just had to call your parents to let them know. Anyhow - it's likely you've also heard of Ghost Browser (based on Chromium - so you can use all your favorite Chrome plugins), which I stumbled upon about a year ago. I've been playing around with an early access version of their new 2.0 browser and really like what they've done with the place. Their new "task based browsing" organizes your browsing around tasks. In each task you can start one or multiple sessions (with their own cookies) that each have their own tabs (or tab collections) that you can then check off as you go along. (GIve it a try and it will immediately make sense). Not only is this great for things like social media management or SEO - I've seen some really creative use cases for web devs (i.e. logging into multiple account levels) as well as customer service (log in to different accounts at the same time to troubleshoot) and even sales (you can actually build "Profiles" for different clients) - so any productivity nut like myself is likely to come up with a use case or two. While they're a small team - I know both @larrykokoszka and @catkokoszka (the co-founders) answered a ton of Qs on the 1.0 launch last year and have been actively updating the product ever since so I'm sure they'll be around at some point this time around.
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
Thanks so much for the awesome review @sharifkhalladi! We're thrilled to hear that you're liking the 2.0 version of the browser and finding all kinds of useful ways to organize your work 🙌🏼 With Ghost Browser 2.0 we wanted to build a browser that helped people be more productive with a built-in, task-based browsing style. If you're anything like me you're easily distracted and need a better way to organize your work than most other modern browsers provide. We have an incredibly talented team of developers and designers at Ghost Browser and we're very proud of to share the rebooted browser with you! @larrykokoszka and I are excited to answer any questions and can't wait to know what you all think of Ghost Browser 2.0!
Arun
@larrykokoszka @catkokoszka @sharifkhalladi Firefox Quantum is one of the best upgrades it has ever received. Managing 200 tabs can be messy on Firefox even now, but this trick helps a bit - https://twitter.com/arunsathiya/...
Larry Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@arunsathiya Quantum shaves fractions of seconds off of page load speeds, which is awesome. We're pretty proud of the fact that we shave hours off your work week. :)
ShimomiAizo
@larrykokoszka @catkokoszka @sharifkhalladi “based on Chromium - so you can use all your favorite Chrome plugins” YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Andy
This is a really interesting idea. I wish there were a way to import to-dos from Things or another task manager.
Larry Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
Thanks @andyfossett! That's on the roadmap.
Andy
@larrykokoszka sweet! I run my entire life with Things, so that would be killer for me
cacarr
A *browser* without a Linux version? Shame, was interested in giving this a spin. Being targeted at developers and "power users" and such, it's a little surprising.
Badr Tazi
@cacarr my thoughts exactly ! I have a mac at work but I use ubuntu on it because I have multiple ubuntu servers (it's better to have the same environment in local). This browser would be perfect for me since I'm constantly switching sessions and tabs... too bad :( .
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@cacarr @tazibadr Thanks for your interest and my apologies that we don't have a Linux version for you to play with yet! I'll be sure to include your feedback in team discussions.
cacarr
@tazibadr @catkokoszka I do quite a bit of WordPress development, and it seems like this would be especially useful. Should I check back in, what, 6 months? A year?
cacarr
@tazibadr @catkokoszka "I'll be sure to include your feedback in team discussions" Does this mean that you're not yet entirely committed to developing a Linux version? You were in the past. If a Linux version is still planned, this is apparently taking much longer than you thought it would at one point. Curious as to what the holdup is.
John Tighe
@cacarr - It's easy to complain.
Scott Bowler
ClassicPress
No Linux version?
Larry Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@scotty_bowler Not yet, sorry.
Andrea Hill
UbiMeet
Yes..... I've definitely looked for something like this before! Looking forward to giving it a try!
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@afhill Awesome! We can't wait to hear what you think!
Tyler Ruby
I came here looking for a "work mode" feature that stops me from browsing Instagram, Reddit, Yahoo, etc. Maybe not fully block, but possibly an alert saying "This doesn't look like work, are you sure you want to visit this website?" would deter people from getting distracted. I wonder if others would like the same feature?
Badr Tazi
Seems like the purpose of this browser is to manage tasks and sessions. For locking specific websites I highly suggest you stayfocusd (https://chrome.google.com/websto...) which is a chrome extension.
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@tyleraruby Hi Tyler, thanks for stopping by and asking about this! Ghost Browser is designed to help you organize your work so you can be more productive. It's based on the idea that creating a to-do list before you start working will help you break out your tasks into bite sized, organized pieces which helps you stay focused and get more accomplished. Although we don't currently have the functionality you described, I totally understand wanting to do that. As shown in the screenshots above, you can put distracting websites all in one Task, this way you can check them as you need to by switching Tasks, but they're not just a tab away, which can be very tempting. I can see how a "block access to this Task for X time" feature would be useful for a distractions Task, I'll add that to our feature request list! In the mean time as @tazibadr mentioned there are quite a few solutions out there currently that do just that.
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@tazibadr Thanks for the suggestion! @tyleraruby the Chrome extension that Badr mentioned can be installed in Ghost Browser to give you that extra control you need to stay focused.
Larry Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@tyleraruby Tyler, I'm so glad you're thinking this way. Philosophically, you're exactly the kind of person we are building this for. So @tazibadr suggested an extension that would be helpful, but also, the way I do it is with a Task called 'Distractions'. I put all of the tabs in that Task that can possibly pull me away from deep work and commit to only accessing it a few times per day. I was skeptical of this method at first, but it's actually been incredibly helpful. We actually, in this lastest version, pre-load that Distractions task for you as a sample Task. You can see it here: . Just remove the sites you don't use and add the ones that you consider to be distractions. I also include project management and team tools in that task because they are one of the biggest things for me that pull me away from bigger projects. You can read a little more about how to use tasks effectively here: https://ghostbrowser.com/blog/du...
Karan Rajpal
Loved it! Can't wait to try this out on Linux since my main development machine runs Linux.
Cat Kokoszka
Ghost Browser
Maker
@karan_rajpal So glad to hear it! Linux has been a big request, sorry it's not available quite yet but I've made a note of your request.
cacarr
@karan_rajpal @catkokoszka While the overall number might not be a high, I strongly suspect that a *far* higher percentage of Linux users would try it out compared to Windows users -- being generally more inclined than your average Windows user to experiment and tinker and whatnot. Also, a higher percentage of Linux users are developers, and Linux users are likely to provide more and better feedback and bug reports than Windows folks.
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