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Search: A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS
Hraness wrote this summary from a saved copy of the source. Quotations are taken word for word from the source.
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Office Commun’s Search is a ~3 MB macOS WebKit browser that strips the product chrome—no toolbar, start page, or suggestion sidebar—leaving tabs and a single address/search field. It finishes URLs from local history without sending keystrokes until Return, and ships as a free download or Homebrew cask for macOS 14+.
ideas
- A tool, not a product. The studio built Search after living in browsers that had become attention-seeking products.
- WebKit keeps it tiny. Using the system engine avoids shipping Chromium, so the app is about 3 MB and opens instantly.
- One field, local history. Address completion never leaves the machine until you press Return.
- Tabs stay quiet. Pins shrink to a letter or icon; prior-session tabs restore without costing resources until opened.
quotes
“Search is a browser with nothing in the way.”
“There is no toolbar, no start page, no sidebar of suggestions, no account to sign into, nothing that wants your attention.”
“It was built by a design studio that spends its whole day in a browser and was tired of the ones that had become products.”
“This one is a tool.”