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Has many plugins and keyboard shortcuts

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Customizable

You can easily customize it.

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Has its own developer tool

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Has an inbuilt browser

See your live actions and live changes inside; else you can search anything without going through your browser.

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Light weight

It take less of your ram.

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Built using Electron

Which means it's a desktop app that is just like a browser.

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It's open source

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Few small bugs while adding theme

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