Your Firefox extensions workToolbar buttons and permission prompts included. Pin an extension’s button to tile headers instead of a crowded toolbar, choose which ones each identity gets, and they pause in private sessions.
Hominis is a Mac browser where every tab is a tile on one big canvas. Pages work where they sit, and go where you put them. Keep a whole project in view, or several side by side. Press ⏎ for a normal tabbed browser; esc takes you back.
Free · For Macs with Apple silicon · Windows and Linux soon
Prefer tabs? Press ⏎.
Focus mode is the browser you already know: one page at a time, with your tabs in a row. Pick the layout that suits you; esc always takes you back to the canvas.
Still a complete browser.
Hominis is built on Firefox 153 ESR, and the everyday parts got the same care as the canvas.
Bring your passwordsImport them from another browser or a CSV file. The Vault fills them in, and flags the weak, reused and breached ones.
And your bookmarksImport them from another browser too. A shelf on ⌘ B, a library with folders and tags, and bookmarks pinned to a spot on the canvas.
Downloads that show speedEach bar shows speed as well as progress, so a stalled download looks stalled. Pause, resume, search and sort.
Your data, exportedWorkspaces, notes, sketches, bookmarks and history in open formats, in one .zip. Nothing is uploaded.
Built for people with a hundred tabs open.
Real Hominis windows and panels. Click any of them to see it larger.
Keep things apart
Your thesis gets a workspace, the launch at work another, the trip a third. Quit, restart, and every tile is back where it was.
- IdentitiesWork accounts in one workspace, personal ones in the next, all signed in at once.
- Private sessionWhile the window is violet, nothing reaches the disk, extensions pause and AI stays off.
Know what’s going on
Hominis says in plain words what a page is doing, and what each setting will do before you change it.
- MediaRestart with a hundred tabs open and none of them starts playing on its own. A badge shows which one is.
- History you can readA calendar, a timeline, and the trail of pages that led you somewhere. It stays on your Mac.
- Settings that say what they’ll doEvery section restates your choices in plain words, with a preview on a small copy of your canvas.
Think on the canvas
Frame tiles into groups, tag them, draw on the canvas around them, and ask questions across several at once.
- Sketch and notesCircle a figure, or arrow a note to the page it’s about.
- The command barYour address bar on ⌘ K from anywhere. Search Wikipedia with !w, do a sum, or ask about the page.
- AI, with your own keyAsk several tiles one question, then check any claim against the passage it came from. Off until you add a key.
Not sure it fits how you work?
Open a working model of Hominis in your browser. Drag tiles around, zoom out, try each layout and change the settings, then decide.
Open the playgroundNothing to install.
Give your tabs some room
- Free
- No telemetry
- Firefox 153 ESR, with your extensions
- Apple silicon now, Windows and Linux soon
- System requirements
Made by one person in Austria
For the moment, Hominis is paid for out of my own pocket. I built it because browsers stopped taking risks with how they work. Some of what Hominis tries will fail, and some of it may turn out to be a real step forward. Either way, somebody has to try.
Topfi · Noduz e.U. · How Hominis was made