Ghost Browser - The productivity browser for tech pros

@ramkumarhq Thanks so much for adding @Ghost_Browser to @ProductHunt. Great Description too! Glad you like it.

@ramkumarhq Thanks for the great review of @Ghost_Browser on @ProductHunt! I'm glad to hear that Ghost is your new every-day browser and that you're enjoying it! Please let me know if I can answer any questions for you. Happy Ghost browsing :)

@joshdance Thanks for bringing this up! The People menu works for some use cases for sure, so if you're happy with it, go with it. However a lot of our users have switched to Ghost because they weren't satisfied with the following things: 1. Multiple windows are messy and cumbersome, whereas having isolated cookie jars in one window tends to help you be more productive. 2. Multiple windows require you to keep your extensions in synch manually. For example, I use Roboform for password management. But if I create a new profile, I have to install the Roboform extension into the new profile, whereas with Ghost, all of the extensions I rely on to do my job are available to every session because it's all in the same window. 3. Same with auto-fill data. Profiles in Chrome do not share auto-fill data, so you're constantly rebuilding that info. For social media management, you can have a peek at how Cat uses Ghost Browser here:

@larrykokoszka I've been depending on Chrome's multi profile abilities for a long time too. I'll definitely give this a try. What is Ghost Browser's memory consumption like compared to a multi profile Chrome setup?

@frassmith Hi Fraser, I'm sorry for the late response. I did not realize this was a new comment. Compared to a multi-profile set up, you will see significant improvements in performance with Ghost Browser because each profile you load up is heavy. With Ghost, you don't need a second profile for most tasks, so it's lighter. Here's an article we wrote going into more detail. http://support.ghostbrowser.com/...

@larrykokoszka hi Larry, thanks for the update. I'm on vacation at the moment but I know my invite is waiting for me when I get home tonight. I'll be trying it when I'm back.

@jamiequackers Thanks. Glad you like it! The code is not available for review, but there are no gremlins. The whole reason we built the browser is to help people get through their work day faster, so gremlins aren't really in our DNA. As far as security, our last core update was in May. We don't always patch everything right away because new Chromium code is not always stable. This is the way the Chrome team does it too.

@ishu3101 Hi Ishan. Yes, we plan to release a Linux version. Windows 64-bit version is coming soon as well. We're validating the product right now, then we'll dig in on Linux. Ghost Browser does support session management. There's a 'now' answer and a 'coming soon' answer to this question. 1. Now, you can something like the Session Manager extension to save a session. When you re-open that session, those tabs will all open sharing the same cookie jar as the active tab. 2. In the very near future you'll be able to save "Projects" in Ghost. A project will be like a session, except it will also the multiple cookie jars you have running. In other words, you can log into Twitter with 5 different accounts, save that as a project, then just open that Project and you'll already be logged into them. We are actually currently hashing the details of how we will implement this, so if you have a particular use case you'd like us to consider, please chime in at feature-ideas@ghostbrowser.com. 3. In the far, far future, we'd like to open up our Ghost Groups API so extension developers can extend their extensions and apps to interact with the Ghost functionality. This will create the possibility for an extension developer like tirokea, the developer of Session Manager, to bake Ghost Group functionality into his extension natively.

@larrykokoszka @ghostbrowser Currently, when you restore a saved session does it restore all the website you have visited in each tabs & windows or just the website you had currently open in each tabs & windows?

@ishu3101, I seem to have missed this question earlier, but here's the answer: We are currently in design phase for this feature of saving Projects to re-open whenever you want to pick up where you left off. It will be the focus of our next release cycle which starts in about a week. Currently, there is a work-around though. If you save the tabs you want to reopen into one Project or group to a bookmark folder, then you can select the option to open all tabs in a folder and select the group they go into. Here are two very short demo videos on how to do that, but the new Projects feature is going to be killer. Please make sure you are on the beta mailing list as we'll be asking for feedback on it when we have some sketches done: http://support.ghostbrowser.com/... http://support.ghostbrowser.com/...

@ishu3101 @ghostbrowser @larrykokoszka "We're validating the product right now, then we'll dig in on Linux." Any update on that? Ghost very directly addresses several annoyances of mine, using Chrome. Seeing as it's of particular use to developers and powers users and such, I would think a Linux version would be a somewhat higher priority that it's apparently been.

@ben_stacer Awesome. Glad you're liking it. Thanks for posting.

@shanekilkelly There are some services built in to Chromium that contact Google for things like auto-complete and warnings for potentially malicious sites. Because we are building a productivity tool, these features are important for most of our users. But you can turn them off if you would like in the privacy settings. If you are logged into your Google account in one Ghost Group, your results will also reflect the search history they have for you. You can open a new group, stay out of google and search independently of Google history though. This is one of the really nice features for SEO specialists. It's also a good one for people that want to search for airline flights without price discrimination. For more information on privacy, please see these support articles (http://support.ghostbrowser.com/...) or if you have a specific concern you can let us know here or through our support desk: http://ghostbrowser.com/contact/.

@larrykokoszka thanks, good to know!

@ianmayman you've basically just written the spec for the "Projects" feature. It's in the works and will likely be our next release!

@larrykokoszka @ianmayman definitely looking forward to the Projects feature then, as I also had this request in mind on groups being a tad more dynamic. Nice!

@hadifarnoud Thanks for the suggestion, it's a good idea! I've added your feature request to our public feature request board. You can see it here: https://trello.com/c/jB324Moa/34... Stop by the board to give your idea a vote and see other feature ideas submitted by other users.

@catkokoszka thanks. It's THE feature everyone needs of a dev browser imho.

Thanks @alangarrec! I just bumped you up to the front of the line for the @Ghost_Browser beta!

@digijustin Thanks! I just sent you a note on how to get the @ghost_browser beta right away.

@larrykokoszka Thank you. Downloading now.

@lee_peterson it's back up. Sorry for the interruption.

@nidhi_v_shandilya You can run Chrome and Ghost side by side yes. The idea is that you won't need Chrome, but it can certainly be done. We opted to build an entire browser instead of just an extension because extensions are limited in what they can do. A lot of small but critical features in browser would not be possible with just an extension.

@adeekshith while there are some similarities, the differences are more control over the session-based experience. Contextual Identities help you separate work from life from banking from shopping and is great for people who divide their online activities into two or more of those categories. Ghost Browser is more about productivity. It lets you do whatever you want whilst logging in to multiple accounts from a single window...we make no assumptions about how you want to do this, as Mozilla has, and give you the tools to decide for yourself.

@yaakovsash No worries, happy to answer. 1. Yes, you can run it side by side - no issues there. 2. It works with most extensions. Dashlane only works out of the box with Chrome, IE, Firefox (they haven't even made Opera compatible) but using these instructions you can get it to work on Ghost too. https://getsatisfaction.com/dash... 3. Good question. If you know the answer let us know...we're not there. Still just trying to build it out in the most useful way possible. Philosophically we think ad based products create distractions that are not in line with our primary goal: to make our users more productive. That's our starting point.

@preben_frenning Whoa! That's awesome. Please tweet the endorphins bit to all of your friends! :) Thanks Real.

@lorendavie This is fixed in the next version, coming out this week. We just missed a couple of files in signing. It's worked out now though. Thanks for the note.

@pierre_ro Awesome! I hope the next 30 seconds also went well. BTW next month we'll have a "Projects" feature so you can fire up all five of those accounts with one click and be logged into each one.

@larrykokoszka I'm loving it :) Thank you for making this. Had a terrible hassle to manage a lot of accounts before. This saved me a lot of trouble daily :)

@larrykokoszka I also sent you a LinkedIn Connection Request. :)