Shiira Open Source Web Browser based on Web Kit
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If you love the Expose feature and would like to see it in a web browser, check out Shiira. Shiira is an open source (under a revised BSD license) web browser for Mac OS X that runs on the Web Kit engine, the same one Safari is running on. It’s written in Cocoa and is compiled as a Universal Binary so it runs on both PPC and Intel Macs. The current version is 1.2.1.
Shiira’s Tab Expose
Some of the features you have in Shiira are RSS support, tabbed browsing, tab expose, page holders for viewing webpages in a sidebar (sort of like a split screen), page transitions if you’re using Tiger, and support for Firefox bookmarks.
Since it’s free, why not give it a shot? Check out the Shiira Project.
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Shiira is a nice browser, but the deal breaker is the lack of good ad blocking. If I could use PithHelmet or if css style sheets adequately blocked flash ads, I would use it in a heartbeat.
March 27th, 2007 at 2:11 am
I like this browser, but it seems to have a stability problem. It crashed several times in a day of use. I hope shiira will fix this problem in version 2.