Mine is a browser for the Mac where the page gets the whole window. No tab strip, no toolbar. Everything else lives in one small dock that steps aside while you read and takes on the colour of the site you’re on.
Free, in private beta, for Macs with Apple silicon.
On software that gets out of the way
A short essay · 6 min read
The best tools disappear while you use them. A pencil doesn’t ask what you’d like to do next; it waits, and then it draws. Most of what we look at all day is not like that.
A browser is a strange case. Its whole job is to show you someone else’s work, and yet it keeps a little of the screen for itself, all the time: a strip of tabs, a bar for the address, a row of buttons you press twice a week.
What if all of that lived in one small place, and stepped aside the moment you started reading? You would still have every tab and every pin. You would just stop seeing them until you needed them.
Scroll back up and the dock comes back. That’s the whole idea.
The rest is care: the dock wears the colour of the page it sits on, so a dark site gets a dark dock, a bright site a soft one. Small things. They add up.
Slow Tide
Haruka Ito · Coastline Sessions
Blood orange
olive oil cake
Bright, a little bitter, and very forgiving. One bowl, no mixer, and it keeps for days, if it lasts that long.
Zest two oranges into the sugar and rub it in with your fingers until it smells like a market stall. Whisk in the eggs, then the oil in a slow stream.
Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Glaze while warm.
Try it. Pick a tab and watch the dock change colour. Scroll the page and it tucks away; scroll back up and it returns. Press + for the address bar.
Miss Arc? The same tabs can live in a sidebar instead.
Pages you open here leave no history, cookies or tabs behind.
Go back to safety
And the rest of what you’d expect, out of the way until you need it.
- Pins and PeekPin the places you live in. Rest on one to peek without leaving the page.
- SpacesWork, home, a trip: each its own set of tabs and its own colour. ⌃1–9 to hop.
- Command bar⌘T or ⌘L. Search, open, or jump to any tab, pin or bookmark.
- Find, zoom, translateFrom the page menu, or ⌘F, ⌘+, ⇧⌘L.
- Helpful error pagesOffline, a mistyped address, a crashed tab: one clear card and a way back.
- Feedback⇧⌘F sends a note, with a picture of the page, straight to the person who made it.
Made in Tokyo by 
Raufan, a product designer who wanted a browser where the page comes first. It’s early, and I’d love to build the rest with you.
Is Mine free?
Yes, and I plan to keep it that way. Later there may be a way to chip in, for anyone who’d like to support it.
Which Macs does it run on?
Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later). It’s signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens like any other app.
What is it built on?
Chromium, through Electron, so sites work the way they do in Chrome. Everything around the page is Mine’s own.
What doesn’t it do yet?
Saved passwords, Chrome extensions, passkeys, sync between Macs, and DRM video like Netflix. Ad blocking and automatic updates are next.
What does it know about me?
Nothing it sends anywhere. Mine has no analytics. Feedback you choose to send goes to me, and that’s it.
Want in? Leave your email and I’ll send the download when there’s room in the next round.
One email when it’s your turn. Nothing else.