#Shiira browsers for mac#

Clicking on the “Shelf” icon brings up a nice display that shows both your Safari and Firefox bookmarks (including toolbar links), along with any links you’ve added to Shiira. If you have been using either of those browsers, Shiira is able to read and import your bookmarks. It’s unfortunate that the Page Dock feature takes up so much space (the vertical implementation found for a couple years in OmniWeb browser uses much less space), but the idea is nice and – again – is attractive and fast.įinally, Shiira has – as previously – maintained its integration with Safari and Firefox. To navigate to one of those pages, simply click it, and the browser shows that page. When opening a new window, Shiira simply adds a tiny icon to a horizontal scrolling area at the bottom of the window, with tiny thumbnail representations of each opened page. This feature is the equivalent to the idea of tabbed browsing. Hopefully this will change at some point, but even so, the implementation is attractive, fast and easy to use, even at this early stage of development.Īnother nice touch Shiira has added with version 2.0 is the idea of the Page Dock. It would be nice if you could select only certain websites to be in your RSS feed list, but if – for instance – you have bookmarked, Shiira will include that, since there are feeds present on that site. This feature is still a bit unrefined, in my view. You can also – a la Safari – choose to view your feeds in a flat window, so you can simply scroll through the list of available articles from a particular site. The names of all the new items are in a list at the top, and selecting an item shows the preview available.

Double clicking on a feed name changes the main Shiira window to a look very similar to an email program. An attractive pop-up window will appear, with a list of all your feeds, along with how many new items are available. Simply add the RSS button to your toolbar, and then when you want to read your blogs, click it. So if you have quite a few blogs that you check daily, you no longer need a separate program to view them in, or (as is possible with Firefox) a separate extension. This feature is always present in the best website builders. Simply enter a page that includes a feed (either RSS or Atom) into your bookmarks, and Shiira will check that page (at an interval you set), for new entries. Shiira took a big leap forward with this release, in my view.Īnother new feature is a nice RSS reader. New icons, new tabs, a new way of looking at currently opened web pages. One of the most visual changes is an entire overhaul of Shiira’s theme. Version 2.0 of Shiira was released in April (although older versions are still available for users running OSX 10.3 and below best website builders), and the changes and features are certainly exciting. Shiira is written in Cocoa (enabling it to take advantage of tight system integration with dictionaries and services), and the same html rendering engine (Web Kit) used by Safari.

#Shiira browsers for mac#

It is also the name of an exciting web browser, available for Mac users running OS X 10.2 – 10.4 (although users running anything less than 10.4 will lose out on certain features).

Shiira is a Japanese word meaning dolphin fish.