Shiira

Shiira (of japシイラ, ​​[ ɕi ɺa ː ], dt " common dolphinfish ," Coryphaena hippurus ) is a web browser for Mac OS X. It is based on Cocoa and sets for displaying web pages on Apple's WebKit, which is based on KHTML. Web sites are thereby displayed the same as in Apple's Safari. In contrast to the source code of Safari Shiira is released under the BSD license and thus free software.

In August 2006, a first beta version of Shiira 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4., In April of the following year appeared with Shiira 2.0 has a completely revised version of the browser.

Skills

Unlike Safari Shiira offers far more extensive setting possibilities and functions ( list not exhaustive):

• The symbol sets can be freely exchanged.
• The user can switch between the Aqua and metal style.
• The " Private Browsing " is unlike Safari activated even after closing the browser and will only be activated when the user is prompted explicitly.
• The default fonts can be adjusted as much detail in Firefox.
• Shiira has a clear Drawer for bookmarks, history, download manager, side shelf and RSS.
• Shiira supports tabs exposed (F8 ), i.e., you can leave all open rider represented as nebeneinder issued playing cards.
• Shiira can display bookmarks from Safari and Firefox directly, without having to import them.
• The search engine in the toolbar can be freely selected.

Shiira uses the same cookie store as Safari, and other WebKit programs.

A sub-project of Shiira Shiira mini is the browser, a Dashboard widget that is designed to facilitate quick access to websites. Shiira mini is unchanged since March 2006, available in version 1.3.