Shiira - The Next Browser For Mac
Shiira is probably one of the best designed web browsers I have probably seen for the Macintosh operating system. Shiira is webkit based browser and is written in Cocoa. One thing is for sure, its killer features make Shiira a much better browser than the native Safari on a Mac. Also Shiira is better than Firefox on a Mac too.
Here are some of its uber cool features :
- RSS support
- Page holder
- An Awesome sidebar design
- Sound effects and font smoothing enabling/disabling for better accessibility for anyone
- Tab Exposé
- Page transition effect (Tiger only)
- Switching browse mode in the toolbar
- Private browsing support
- Firefox bookmarks handling
Here are some beautiful screenshots of the Shiira Browser :
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You can check the number of unread articles on the Dock icon, and bookmarks bar and menu. In addition, Shiira supports Growl notification for incoming articles.

The most impressive feature of Shiira happens to be the Tab Exposé feature. Tabbed browsing is useful, but you can’t the open all pages at once. Instead of showing tiny thumbnails on the side or over the tabs, Tab Exposé displays all open tabs the same way that Exposé shows all open windows.

OSX Tiger provides a powerful graphic library called Core Image. Shiira uses Core Image for page transition effects, and it looks awesome and uber cool.
For a lot more uber cool features of Shiira please visit this page. Download Shiira today and most important thing is that it is absolutely free.




9 Comments, Comment or Ping
sindhu
wow! looks great, nice find karthik…to bad its not for Windows platform…
Jul 29th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
@Sindhu : yeah windows has always had all the ugly and bloated software..
Jul 29th, 2007
Jawsh
wow.. its like WaterFish as opposed to FireFox.. nice try.. looks dumb
Aug 6th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
@Jawsh : i don’t really think it is dumb, i feel it to be a good alternative to Safari on a Mac
Aug 6th, 2007
jack
I wish it supported StumbleUpon
Aug 7th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
@Jack : Yeah stumbleupon would have been a nice addition to this impressive browser..
Aug 7th, 2007
lacxbher
“…its killer features make Shiira a much better browser than the native Safari on a Mac. Also Shiira is better than Firefox on a Mac too.”
Aug 12th, 2007
JMED
Tab Expose: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1937
Tab Switching Animations: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4258
I don’t use RSS very often but I’m sure you could find an addon to do that as well. Firefox’s strength isn’t in specific gimmicks or functions but that with addons it can do literally everything any other browser can.
Aug 14th, 2007
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