[ @Ashraf] the SOS page for this product has the wrong link for the vendor, it should be:

[ https ://webcatalog. app/ ]

The current version there is v25.8.0. Windows 7 and later, 64-bit from the website above ( the SOS-distributed version is v25.5.2 ).

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[@Colin] YOU tell US after exploring this and sharing.

I note that Google Chrome is a memory hog and too many tabs open eventually locks up, so when I am doing research and have 5, 10, 20, or more tabs for one project, and maybe 3 Chrome windows open with 20+ tabs each, I just commit suicide to try and then also open my email, or even open SOS on top of all that, so having my email and SOS as separate apps makes sense.

On the one hand, we’ve ALL been trying to manage too many tabs in browsers, Tab Mix Plus for Firefox is no longer functioning, tab-grouping in Chrome was a baad design bust from the start, so I open Chrome, Firefox, AND Opera, and then Internet Explorer when I only need one download, and then close it, NONE of the big vendors is addressing our using the web as an extended library search and reference resource – EXTENDED.

On the other hand, Quang Lam, the programmer of Web Catalog Plus, suggests offloading tabs to separate “apps”.

– Access to apps in their rated catalog of ~600 websites
– Create custom apps from any websites
– Add Unlimited workspaces
– Block ads & trackers
– Attach to menu bar or taskbar
– Inject CSS/JS code
– Choose browser engine

What say we try it out and report back in – that’s what we’re here for.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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That said, the sampled app has no savvy from the browser it’s made from, no spell check, no right-click context menus, no ability to add in Grammarly and Print Friendly, and so on.

And I say “sampled” because I was not able to successfully “install” as web site as an app ( Windows 7 64 Pro SP1 ).

Web Catalog Plus seems like another alpha test, not ready for prime time.

Interesting idea, but woefully immature and not well-thought-out or developed yet.

Keep at it, Quang Lam – but if I cannot do n your app what I can do in the web page itself, then you have not invited me in yet.

I wasn’t sure exactly what yo’d use this for then decided I might create an ‘app’ for Facebook, as Facebook seems to hog memory a bit in my browser.
The app creation process was easy and the actual Facebook ‘app’ was very quick to open and seemed much quicker to scroll etc than in my browser

BUT

two things stopped me from using it:

1. the text seemed quite fuzzy and a lot harder to read than the text in my browser
2. If I clicked on a facebook link in an email then it wouldn’t open it in the app – it would just open in my default browser as per usual. I can’t see a way around this. As one of the main ways I use Facebook is to read the email notifications and click on the links in the ones I’m interested in, then that was a showstopper for me.

I think the app looks great but maybe it’s because I haven’t had my morning coffee yet, but I don’t “get it”.

Is this just like making shortcuts to websites?

I installed Udemy to test it out, normally I just have that in my bookmarks toolbar. The one thing I did notice was that my password manager didn’t pick up on the fields so I copy/pasted my username/password.

Mark wrote:

Is this just like making shortcuts to websites?

In .exe – format

I see where GMail is available as an app at the WebCatalog site. So how does installing their GMail version as an app on my PC improve my productivity? It seems that I’ll be using more of my client resources rather than their server resources…no?

Webcatalogue is nice