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News is Horse’s field journal: what shipped, why we built it, and what Riders have done with it. It is also where a tiny orange computer acquired the status of a beloved son. We stand by our editorial judgment.

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Why Horse Browser Has Trails Instead of TabsThe true story of how Pascal and Eleanor built Horse Browser, invented Trails, and only later discovered why the idea worked especially well for ADHD.October 3, 2022 · 1,334 words by Pascal Pixel
Open as Many Windows as You LikeHorse 3.0 removed the one-window limit while keeping every window inside one shared Trail tree.June 22, 2026 · 580 words by Pascal Pixel
Import & Export Your LinksHow links learned to travel both ways: into Horse Browser as Trails and back out again as ordinary Markdown.October 23, 2024 · 371 words by Eleanor McKeown
Password Manager Support: The Origin StoryHow Riders and an open-source maintainer helped unlock password-manager extensions for Horse Browser.December 24, 2024 · 475 words by Eleanor McKeown
How Beth McClelland Uses Horse as Her Quiet InternetBeth McClelland describes using Horse Browser to explore historical questions while Trails preserve the route back.September 23, 2024 · 775 words by Eleanor McKeown
How Max Roberts Uses Trails for Podcast ResearchPodcaster Max Roberts describes seeing the lineage of his research without organising tabs while he works.June 3, 2024 · 889 words by Eleanor McKeown
Two Early Reviews of Horse BrowserBeth McClelland and Réka Writes discover a quieter, cozier way to follow curiosity through Horse Browser.May 13, 2024 · 446 words by Eleanor McKeown

Building an independent browser

Pascal Pixel Is Maker of the YearProduct Hunt named Pascal Pixel its 2024 Maker of the Year, while Horse Browser took silver in Bootstrapped & Small Teams.January 7, 2025 · 488 words by Eleanor McKeown
Dogfooding Windows With OrangeboyHow a tiny orange PC gave Horse Browser a proper Windows test machine and Pascal a completely proportionate emotional attachment to a computer.February 26, 2024 · 1,012 words by Pascal Pixel
Our First Year as an Indie BrowserThe first year of building Horse Browser, from the Riders who accepted its rough edges to the moment it entered the Scribbled Line Toolchest.July 10, 2023 · 524 words by Pascal Pixel
2024: The Year Horse Found Its RidersHow Horse Browser survived a difficult year, found its first real audience, and acquired enough momentum to gallop into 2025.December 3, 2024 · 647 words by Eleanor McKeown
Why We Closed the Horse DiscordWhy Horse Browser stepped away from always-on chat and put its attention back where it belongs: making the browser better.September 15, 2025 · 442 words by Pascal Pixel