A visual preview of Shiira 2.0 pre-alpha

July 20th - 4 Responses

Mark over at Delusions of Grandeur had a quick hands-on with the tech-preview 1 version of Shiira 2.0, the Web-kit based, Cocoa browser which is slowly taking form as a major player in the world of OS X browsers. Shiira was originally started as an alternative to Safari, but has slowly morphed into a lightweight competitor to the major browsers out and about now (certainly to Firefox, which performs dismally on my Macs). The upcoming major release of Shiira looks exciting with Growl implementation (notifactions on updated RSS feeds!), Tab Exposé, native tabbed browsing (I know I know), tab thumbnails, a new version of the plugin API, and many other features.

[Shiira 2.0 tech preview | Shiira web-browser]

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1. Jurie
   10:24 am CEST on July 21st, 2006

   I switch browser just about every week now… currently on Camino. All I want is decent performance (ie Firefox takes up 102% CPU on my system… 3s input delay) and session saving (which, so far, only Firefox seems to have done properly). Oh, and stability (rules out the latest Opera right there). Maybe I should use Safari and Saft again… or check out the new Shiira.

2. Jurie
   10:26 am CEST on July 21st, 2006

   Eh, your link doesn’t lead to the 2.0 preview, it seems…

3. nerds
   11:29 am CEST on July 21st, 2006

   Ah yeah, the tech preview isn’t public yet ;)

4. Jurie
   11:20 am CEST on July 22nd, 2006

   Poseur! :P

   I switched back to Safari + Saft :) Camino’s session saver works PER WINDOW. I found this out the hard way. Also, YouTube stopped working.

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