Is there a way to pin a browser tab to the desktop as a Haiku replicant?
Just wondered about this, as it would be great to be able to pin my fastmail and iphoto tabs pinned accessible on the desktop…
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AFAIR NetSurf have replicant support if you enable it in the Deskbar a small brown hand should show up somewhere (not where you expect it) in the browser window.
NetSurf is however pretty limited in features.
But: patches welcome for Web+!
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WebPositive’s BeOS predecessor NetPositive could be installed as Replicant into e.g. the Desktop. Web+ hasn’t reached parity in that department yet.
OTOH, given how fragile a browser can be in today’s web, I’d expect regular crashes of it taking Tracker down with it… 
Personally, I have a query for new mails in a window on workspace 4 and I visit there now and again to see if I have new mail. Or when I see the mail_daemon’s notification announcing that.
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Replicant support in NetSurf has been broken for several years now. It was too complicated to maintain and getting in the way of other changes.
It will be easier to do with WebKit2 when that’s ready, since that will run the web browser as an entirely separate process, if it crashes, it won’t bring Tracker down with it
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If you save a web link externally and then select it to visit a page, does the first page open or does it create a new tab?
It creates a new tab.