What has mainly been holding back the release of the beta build was the new tutorial feature. I wanted to make users be able to discover all the advanced features of ThunderBrowse. The new feature was going to replace that Start page “Thank you for installing blah blah blah.”
In the end, I decided against add a tutorial and here is why:
- It added bloat: One of the biggest objectives in this build is cutting down bloat
- A tutorial just couldn’t make up for that start page: It was too much content to cover.
- I found myself constantly opening tabs for the user: Which I’ve learned from Firefox is a bad idea.
- ?????: I don’t really have a fourth reason.
Now, the tutorial is not going to appear in this build. I know it’s kinda sad, but one of the nicest features of ThunderBrowse is how small it is. If I finished that tutorial, you could probably imagine how long it would be to go through it and how large the total file size might be.
So, instead I’m going to go a different route. I’m going to rework that welcome page and update it severely (the last time it was updated was back when ThunderBrowse was still called UrlBar for Thunderbird [ew]).