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Posted by MohammedSameer on Sun, 29/08/2004 - 10:57 :: Reviews
Kazehakase, A shining star in the browsers' world, It's meant to be modular so you can use any HTML rendering backend/widget.

kazehakase


http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp


0.1.9



  • Very light weight
  • Have guestures
  • Simple interface whth the ability to choose the degree of complication.
  • The ability to save/restore sessions.

  • I wasn't able to change the fonts due to a crash when I try to open the fonts tab in the preferences dialog.
  • Can't yet save a session when it crashes
  • The Interface is somehow strange.
  • No download manager till now.
  • You can only save 1 session.
  • The download experience in general needs many improvements!
  • I wasn't able to open a link from the extract links dialog.

  • It's very lightweight.
  • You can drop a link on a portion of the statusbar to download it.
  • saving/restoring sessions work fine.
  • A recent closed tabs menu.
  • The ability to duplicate a tab
  • A scrap bookmark feature, I still don't know what is it exactly.
  • Perhaps the most useful about box ever made, With a calender in it ;-)
  • The ability to extract links from a page, And either open them or save them to a file.

I think that the main plus here is offering a gecko based webbrowser, Yet not heavy and bloated as other mozilla based browsers.


4 stars

Yes, It really seems promising, That's Japan :-)

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kazehakase my salvation from proprietary world
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Posted by  Alaa on Sun, 29/08/2004 - 11:20.

I'm keeping an eye on it too, when mozilla split gecko to its own package kz will be very lightweight indeed, and they have plans to add more rendering engines which is mucho cool.

but they realy need volunteers to help code and test the thing.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Yes, I've submittes a bug rep
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Posted by  MohammedSameer on Sun, 29/08/2004 - 11:30.

Yes, I've submittes a bug report: https://gna.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=641

-- I was known as Uniball!
Katoob Main developer
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YAR. Yet Another Review
Posted by  NewComer on Sun, 29/08/2004 - 12:44.

Although not mature enough, this browser is already my default one. It is very promising. Here's my list of pros and cons, some might be redundant since Uniball mentioned them.

Main Pros

  • Light weight
  • Uses gecko, the best rendering engine till now IMHO
  • Depends on GTK2 only, no Gnome dependencies
  • Plans to use different engines (Dillo, w3m and GtkHtml)

Secondary Pros

  • Very cool RSS feed support
  • Customizable and very advanced features: for example, few things i liked
    • Variable tab length
    • Chose whether to have a close button in each tab or not
    • Closing all tabs to the right or left of certain tab
    • Recently closed tabs
    • Extracting links from webpage
    • Going up (to parent directory)
    • Highlight some text, right click, chose "Launch Editor" and here you go. You're favorite text editor is opened with the highlighted text within it.
    • Many more features

Main Cons

  • Very weird interface as Uniball mentioned
  • Uncustomizable toolbar
  • Missing some toolbar icons (home, new tab)
  • Uses a mix of hardcode icons and stock Gtk2 icons
  • No image resizing
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