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Managing Multiple Sessions: The Role of Global Tabs
Managing multiple sessions in one browser window – the special role of Global tabs in Ghost Browser and how to use it to boost productivity.
Read MoreThe Important Difference Between Sessions and the Global Tabs
When users first fire up Ghost Browser, the first thing most people do is right-click a tab and open a ‘New Session’. The result might be something like the image below. The gray tabs represent the Global Tabs (like tabs in a normal browser) and the purple tab is of course a Ghost Browser Session tab. From…
Read MoreOpening Multiple Workspaces in Ghost Browser
We love that users are already starting to push the limits of Workspaces. We are getting a lot of requests for opening two Workspaces at once and to be honest, there is a trick that I didn’t know about until our lead developer hit me upside the head with it the other day. See, when,…
Read MoreVersion 1.1.0.0: Core Update and Maintenance Release
We released version 1.1.0.0 today. The bulk of the work in this release was upgrade of the Chromium core. We are now on Chromium 56.x. With this comes the first version of Ghost Browser that has implementations of Material Design. Design, especially with browsers is always a personal choice and for each person that loves…
Read MoreKeyboard Shortcuts Are Here!
You asked for it, you got it! With the release of Version 1.0.3.7 comes keyboard shortcuts. We built a custom keyboard shortcuts functionality that allows you to customize a set of commands unique to Ghost Browser functions and your installed extensions in order to speed up your work and boost productivity. Now you can do…
Read MoreWhy Every WordPress Professional Should Reconsider Their Default Browser
I conceived of Ghost Browser as a solution to a set of problems that kept coming up in WordPress projects and making me say ‘there has to be a better way’. Day in and day out I realized that my web browser (Firefox, then Chrome about 6 months after it came out) was working AGAINST…
Read MoreWe’ve Enhanced the Browser’s Startup Behavior
In our last release that included the Projects feature, we removed the ‘Start where you left off’ feature because it conflicted with smooth running of Projects. That seemed to be a bigger issue than we thought it would be, so we accelerated our plans to replace the functionality. Today we released version 1.0.3.5, which adds…
Read MoreGhost Browser Premium Pricing Explained
We launched premium pricing for Ghost Browser yesterday and are extremely happy to see that our free beta users see so much value in the browser. We know it’s weird to pay for a browser, but we don’t think it’s weird to pay for a productivity tool – especially one that touches so much of…
Read MoreImportant Release and Changes with Ghost Browser
As we’ve hinted at in the past couple weeks, there are a few major changes happening this week with Ghost Browser. Here’s a brief rundown with details to follow. We’re renaming ‘Groups’ to ‘Sessions’. A Session is set of tabs that share a cookie jar. Ghost Browser’s special feature is that you can have multiple…
Read MoreBrowsing Privacy – A Matter of Life or Death? Scoble vs Shetty
On the eve of the most polarizing United States Presidential election in my life, I was in Lisbon, watching a debate. It was between tech blogger Robert Scoble, donning goofy-looking virtual reality glasses. And on the opposite end of the stage, a serious and well-spoken Shalil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. They were debating…
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