![]() Second, you can use browser themes to modify the toolbar icons. Brushed Metal is more Panther-esque but I prefer the softer, smoother Aqua. First, you can select between the “Aqua” and “Brushed Metal” textures for browser windows. You can also change the browser’s appearance, in one of two ways. You can also set the tab width to be set by the tab’s name otherwise, all tabs are the same width (this is what I prefer). You can tell Shiira to display the previously selected tab, or the tab to the right of the just-closed tab (which is Safari’s method). For example, you can set how you want the tabs to behave when you close one. Some of Shiira’s tab controls do take a little getting used to. It sounds like a little thing, but it’s very cool and handy. And while the tab implementation looks like Safari’s, Shiira one-ups Apple’s browser by allowing you to reorganize your tabs. ![]() Like Safari (and every other browser worth it’s salt out there), Shiira employs tabbed browsing, perhaps one of the coolest developments in the browser world ever. Doing a side-by-side comparison of the two with the Activity Monitor reveals that Shiira does, in fact, use slightly fewer system resources than Safari. For starters, it feels quite a bit quicker, especially when doing simple tasks like browsing the history. However, there are certain areas in which Shiira actually improves upon Safari. And since it’s fully Aqua-ized (unlike, say, Firefox, whose form widgets have a distinctly non-Mac look to them), it’s as pretty as any fully-fledged Mac app. But that shouldn’t be too surprising, seeing as how they both use Web Kit, Apple’s suite of tools for displaying web content. Perhaps too similar, based on some of the comments I’ve seen in discussion forums. The second thing you’ll notice, once you’ve installed Shiira, is that it’s very similar to Safari in terms of look and feel. (Note: Shiira is only available for OS X 10.3 Panther or higher.) In this day and age of bloatware, that’s a very encouraging sign. The first thing you’ll notice when you download Shiira is that the DMG file is under 2MB in size. Although Shiira is still in beta and has a few interface bugs and inconsistencies, it’s incredibly well-formed and has a great deal of promise. I’ve been using the latest version (as of this writing), 0.9.3, as my primary browser at home for the past week or so, and have been very impressed.
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