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Shiira 2, Try It Out!

July 24th, 2006 at 3:29am • Posted in Mac Apps • Tagged ,

I've been itching to get my hands on Shiira 2 since I read the preview posted on Delusions of Grandeur a few days ago, and I'm sure you guys have too. Which is why I was psyched when a MacThemesForums member found a link to a build uploaded the 19th. Admittedly it's still pretty buggy, and the preferences are all in Japanese, but hey, whatever, I'm digging the overall slickness and cool features like the tab bar and page info inspector panel.

Shiira 2

Enjoy this one while it lasts! (Oh, and before anyone asks, to enable these tabs, you need to turn on the status bar first, then press the little icon on the bottom right (second from the right) to show the tab bar. It was a bit buggy here, so you might have to manually expand it once you toggle it on. (Mouseover to just above the status bar until you get the drag cursor, and pull up.)

Update: New build, uploaded August 1st, can be found here!



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Up until this point, there have been 24 responses to “Shiira 2, Try It Out!”:

Austin Sarner

July 24th, 2006 at 3:43am

first post ROFL

Derek Punsalan

July 24th, 2006 at 3:47am

Nice post! A small tip for those that have difficulty getting the tab bar to show... After enabling the status bar, click the icon that looks like it has an upside down triangle in it. Nothing shows right away due to a small bug (Preview release right?). Mouse over the area just above the status bar and your cursor will change allowing you to drag the tabs into view.

Glenn Wolsey

July 24th, 2006 at 4:32am

This is awesome! Thanks Phill.

GrammarNazi

July 24th, 2006 at 4:51am

That word "to" at the end of the first sentence should be "too".

Mike Vitoroulis

July 24th, 2006 at 4:52am

Finally I found out how to use the tab bar, thanks. ;)

I'm trying to add bookmarks from the bookmark bar but it doesn't seem possible yet (at least without editing the bookmarks.plist)

Amit Karmakar

July 24th, 2006 at 5:56am

Oh no its all in Japanese! :) but blazing fast. Cant wait for the English version though. The wooden shelf is nice but not sure it goes with aqua?

Martin Gordon

July 24th, 2006 at 7:15am

Thanks a bunch. I'm growing tired of Firefox's unOSXness and the preview from Delusions of Grandeur made Shiira 2 look really amazing. It's downloading right now and can't wait to try it.

Marius_Th

July 24th, 2006 at 7:28am

check out here for more recent nightly builds:
http://ksc.dl.sourceforge.jp/shiira/
(derived from the link on top)

Kit Born

July 24th, 2006 at 7:44am

It will nto work on my G4 with Panther. Is it Intel only? The icon looks like a play on the Universal symbol. Any ideas?

Gadgets

July 24th, 2006 at 8:01am

Cool man, Really awesome.

yongfook

July 24th, 2006 at 8:15am

check out an English interview (he's Japanese) with the developer of Shiira here:
http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/02/17/on-a-safari-hunt-the-shiira-browser/

Cam

July 24th, 2006 at 8:23am

I will just be happy when they work out the bugs, man theres a lot of them right now, no wonder they didnt officially release this

Richard Hirst

July 24th, 2006 at 8:33am

Kit Born: It's a universal binary. The icon is of a dolphin fish (Shiira), it doesn't have anything to do with the universal binary icon, they've had it for a while. It's also an alpha release, so that's probably why it's not working, maybe something to do with your hardware/software combination.

Flytiger

July 24th, 2006 at 8:40am

ok. pretty good. It helped me too. Thanks

James Cunningham

July 24th, 2006 at 9:08am

Kit Born:

My guess is that it requires Tiger; this is a pretty common thing with new universal apps. I hope it changes in the future (though I, personally, don't have anything running Panther atm).

I'm not at a OS X machine; when I am I'll be sure to try it. This looks great.

Ivan Minic

July 24th, 2006 at 10:02am

Cool :)

Mike

July 24th, 2006 at 10:19am

Thanks mate. Downloading now. Will play a little and post my thoughts on my website.

Apples And Hybrids

July 24th, 2006 at 10:40am

Whoa, I never knew Shiira got this far. I used it about a year ago, and it was great, but it didn't turn out to be that appealing. But Shiira 2 is very impressing, and the Japanese preferences don't mind me because I'm Japanese. But I'd want an English version too to make some beta reviews, with the screenshots with English text. Great Post Phill!

Chase Hurst

July 24th, 2006 at 4:57pm

Very nice! Thanks for the find Phill.

The only thing I don't like about Shiira 2 is the wood skin on the 'Shelf' section - kind of 70's-ish.

Paralex

July 24th, 2006 at 9:19pm

w00t, thanks for this post.

Richard

July 25th, 2006 at 12:24am

Wow, it's blazing fast -- both tab switching and scrolling through graphics intensive pages are MUCH faster than Safari and old versions of Shiira. I can't wait until the final release.

Bob

July 26th, 2006 at 1:18pm

I would love to see the tabs preview window operate like Dashboard: a keystroke or assigned mouse button (or browser button) would have the tab fade in and out. Perhaps a new addition to safari?!? You heard it here first.

Kevin

August 01st, 2006 at 3:08am

Wow, I am loving Shiira again. I can't wait for the official release.

gbdoc

December 10th, 2006 at 8:59am

1.2 is great, my default browser. Anybody know why v.2 isn't happening? It'd be a shame if they've stopped development.


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