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I've renamed my web browser project from SWB to Sunstone. The sunstone was a translucent mineral prized by Viking navigators because it had a natural property that polarized light, making it possible to see through the haze and find the sun on a hazy day - quite common in the North Atlantic. I liked the connection to a primitive navigation tool. Some code progress: - Downloads are displayed in a grid form inside a popup menu with a progress bar - I've added a (non-functional) bookmark editor button next to the address bar. Bookmarks should be coming fairly soon. - If the tab bar or the command bar are hidden, those settings now persist across sessions. - When the tab bar is hidden, the tab overview button is shown and the new tab button is hidden. You can still create a new tab from the button in the overview or from 'Ctrl/t'. Keeps the interface cleaner. #WebBrowser #sunstone #programming #Vala #Gtk https://codeberg.org/jeang3nie/sunstone

Posting from Swb for the first time. Just enabled persistent cookies, so logins will persist across sessions. Some other goodies as of today: - favicons in tab labels - loading feedback via a spinner in the tab labels Lots of other smaller features are underway but not finished. I did some groundwork on vertical tabs this morning, and layed out the classes for history storage. #swb #vala #WebBrowsers