{"id":49322,"date":"2025-09-19T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49322"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:25:23","slug":"iterm2-web-browser-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/19\/iterm2-web-browser-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"iTerm2 Web Browser Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iterm2.com\/documentation-web.html\">George Nachman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45298793\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/iterm2.com\/documentation-web.html\"><p>iTerm2 includes built-in web browsing capabilities. Web browser sessions fit into iTerm2&rsquo;s existing window &gt; tab &gt; split pane hierarchy just like terminal sessions, allowing you to browse the web alongside your terminal work.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><ul><li><strong>Passkeys<\/strong> Not supported due to Apple-imposed WKWebView restrictions.<\/li><li><strong>Advanced ad blocking:<\/strong> Limited by Apple&rsquo;s resource fetching API restrictions.<\/li><\/ul><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This feature exists because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many iTerm2 features translate well to web browsing<\/li>\n<li>It provides a unified terminal and browser experience<\/li>\n<li>A former colleague suggested this idea in 2014 and I haven&rsquo;t been able to stop thinking about it.<\/li>\n<li>I am maybe having a midlife crisis and this is cheaper than a sports car.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>macOS doesn&rsquo;t let you mix tabs&mdash;let alone split panes&mdash;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.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/02\/rethinking-window-management\/\">Rethinking Window Management<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Nachman (via Hacker News): iTerm2 includes built-in web browsing capabilities. Web browser sessions fit into iTerm2&rsquo;s existing window &gt; tab &gt; split pane hierarchy just like terminal sessions, allowing you to browse the web alongside your terminal work.[&#8230;]Passkeys Not supported due to Apple-imposed WKWebView restrictions.Advanced ad blocking: Limited by Apple&rsquo;s resource fetching API restrictions.[&#8230;]This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-09-20T01:23:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"7953f6f3-9dbe-4d61-b93f-de29664906ae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-09-20T01:25:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AeVP2852-TWG5P94pZkkGrg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,30,32,2742,2222,2735,1926],"class_list":["post-49322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-iterm2","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-passkeys","tag-web-browser","tag-wkwebview"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49324,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322\/revisions\/49324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}