Last year, we mentioned Shiira - a new Mac OS X browser from Japanese "Happy Macintosh Developing Time", and just after the release of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", they made 1.0 version for Tiger (only). Now the 1.1 version is available for both Panther and Tiger users.

from http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html ,
Since the main purpose of the 1.1 is to support Panther, there is no new fantastic feature. But Shiira 1.1 implements some new features of Safari 2.0 on Panther. It might be good news for Panther user.

New features

• Supports Mac OS X 10.3.9.
• Improves Tab Exposé feature, which includes animation. More detail…
• Adds the page transition effects (requires Tiger and Core Image enable machine). More detail…
• Supports "Open All Links In Tabs". More detail…
• Supports the private browsing mode. More detail…
• Integrates Firefox bookmarks. More detail…
• Supports the latest Growl.

The stunning page transition effect:


Related thread:
* Shiira 0.9.1.1 - new browser for Mac OS X
* Shiira 1.0

Related report:
* 完全進化的 Shiira 瀏覽器 from our Camino moderator Annjack.

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感謝沈兄的介紹，這真是不錯的瀏覽器！Mac 一族值得嘗試的瀏覽工具！

我也用過了，美工方面差了點啊
連Fx也不如喔

Mozilla (back in early days) was a lot worse than this...

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這讓我想起了以前在OS/2上面玩過的視窗效果，
視窗出現時可以有各式各樣不同的特效，
但是除了吃資源外，一點實質上的好處都沒有，
現在好像也沒看誰在玩這種東西了。

所以，回歸基本面，
這個瀏覽器除了換頁效果外，有沒有其他優點？
(例如：功能跟firefox比之如何？或未來的目標有何特別？)
我懷疑，
如果換頁效果要等到新網頁傳輸完成才會開始換頁，
那不是反而拖慢瀏覽時間了嗎？

Surprisingly, it does not use much system resource. Thanks to Mac OS X's Core Image architecture. (in other words only users with Core Image supported graphic cards can enjoy this feature.)

Firefox is not even Cocoa-based application.
Other features? Based on Apple's WebKit. Shares Keychain etc.

You can turn that off.

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