Archive for September 19, 2025

Friday, September 19, 2025

iTerm2 Web Browser Profiles

George Nachman (via Hacker News):

iTerm2 includes built-in web browsing capabilities. Web browser sessions fit into iTerm2’s existing window > tab > split pane hierarchy just like terminal sessions, allowing you to browse the web alongside your terminal work.

[…]

  • Passkeys Not supported due to Apple-imposed WKWebView restrictions.
  • Advanced ad blocking: Limited by Apple’s resource fetching API restrictions.

[…]

This feature exists because:

  • Many iTerm2 features translate well to web browsing
  • It provides a unified terminal and browser experience
  • A former colleague suggested this idea in 2014 and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
  • I am maybe having a midlife crisis and this is cheaper than a sports car.

macOS doesn’t let you mix tabs—let alone split panes—from different apps in the same window, yet you may want to keep a particular group of terminals and Web browsers together. This lets you do that.

Previously:

Third-Party Apps Missing From Tahoe’s Control Center

John Voorhees:

Before the public beta of Tahoe was ever released, I saw controls for Sequel and MusicHarbor in Control Center. That set my expectations that over the course of the summer I’d see more.

Instead, those controls disappeared with the release of the Tahoe public beta. […] September rolled around and third-party controls were still nowhere to be seen.

[…]

Then yesterday I heard privately from a developer who’d been keeping in touch as they tried to implement controls. They told me their code was substantively the same as Drafts’ code, but their controls wouldn’t show up until they tried something that I’d never thought of doing myself: they opened the widgets gallery.

[…]

My hope is that Apple will fix this bug quickly.

Previously:

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