Peter Cameron

BrowseFS

BrowseFS is an exciting framework for web productivity and automation. The project provides unique and useful ways for interacting with web content that make performing tasks on the web more convenient. The project accomplishes these tasks by extending the filesystem of the local computer to make web page content accessible as if it were regular files and folders on a local hard disk. With web content represented as such, it can be manipulated and interfaced with by methods that in the past have been reserved only for interactivity with file system components. The result is an explosive increase in productivity, efficiency, and convenience by those who can properly harness the power of BrowseFS.

BrowseFS provides primarily three new ways of interacting with the web: through graphical filesystem navigation, command line manipulation, and application “browse” functionality. Using graphical filesystem navigation with BrowseFS enables users to double-click and proceed through folders that represent web pages. Correspondingly, the web page content that is represented on each page visited is represented by files containing text, images, or other data that appropriately depicts the various web elements. As subfolders are double-clicked, BrowseFS navigates further to sublinks on a given web page. BrowseFS has capabilities to represent nearly all major components of a web page in such a manner that they can be interacted with as if a user were navigating the web browser directly.