Shiira – The Next Browser For Mac

July 28, 2007  |  , ,
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Shiira IconShiira 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 :

Dock Icon
RSS Notification

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.

Tab Exposé

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.

Transition Effect

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.

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  • 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.
  • 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."
  • @Jack : Yeah stumbleupon would have been a nice addition to this impressive browser..
  • jack
    I wish it supported StumbleUpon
  • @Jawsh : i don't really think it is dumb, i feel it to be a good alternative to Safari on a Mac
  • Jawsh
    wow.. its like WaterFish as opposed to FireFox.. nice try.. looks dumb
  • @Sindhu : yeah windows has always had all the ugly and bloated software..
  • wow! looks great, nice find karthik...to bad its not for Windows platform...
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