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DeskBrowse is now free

If you're looking for a quick, efficient browser that will appear and disappear at the press of a button, look no further than the cleverly designed DeskBrowse. "The browser is toggled in and out of the side of the screen via a hotkey," describes their website, and has a feature called Websposé that enables what they call a "password-protectable 'kiosk-mode' web environment ideal for allowing other users or guests to browse the web safely without any harm coming to your system." And it works as advertised.

Plus, it's fast, free, and open source -- so give it a try.

[Thanks, Chris]

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kioshi

I still prefer Sunrise Browser...

http://freewaremac.net/2006/alternative-macintosh-web-browsers/

July 07 2006 at 7:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rtriharyana

i love this stuff! much! but, i hope this app can be the future browser :). Love it so! go go go!

July 04 2006 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott Young

I like this little app, unfortunately it hangs when I try to reopen it after quitting. I can delete the plist files after going into application support and then it reopens without issue, but gosh that is a bit of a hassel to do every time.

July 04 2006 at 2:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Needs some work. It would be nice if you could move it like the dock; i have my dock on the left so it gets in the way. Also if you hide the dock icon and menu bar icon there is no way to quit the program ("comman+option+esc" doesnt show it running) so you have to go into activty monitor to quit it.

July 04 2006 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eb1

I found deskbrowse to be neat, but persistently crashy if you turn off navigation controls in kiosk mode. The app has a lot of potential but is not nearly mature enough to be practical for significant use.

July 04 2006 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carlos Alberto Pinto Peixoto Bastos Santos

Does anyone knows if it works on Panther? I couldn't find easily any information about this.

July 04 2006 at 1:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PooPsTech

Hi there,
Well I installed this DeskBrowse, and took a through look at it and I have to admit, EVEn free is too expensive. These are the people that give bad name to software Developers. User Intrerface and User interaction is totally non existant! Deskbrowser was immediately deleted!...

July 04 2006 at 12:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Papilionoidea

It's pretty, with better bookmark support it will be great. But, I'm still using it from now on. It's really the sort of thing one looks for on a mac, a good, clean and pretty program that's useful.

July 03 2006 at 6:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gman

I guess having exposé on completely hacks the security of the weposé feature.

The sliding is cool, but then again who needs sliding when you have exposé. I think it would be nice to have sliding individual applications built into an OS X as an exposé feature. For example: Command + S (sliding and app) instead of Command + H (hiding an app). Or heck just make apps slide away when you hide them!

July 03 2006 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dalton

This program looks pretty sweet. I hope it gets better bookmark management some-day, but I can see myself using this a lot - like at work, keeping all my work-related pages open in Firefox, and all my personal pages (gmail, bloglines) in DeskBrowse. Very nice!

July 03 2006 at 5:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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