Shiira 2.0 Preview

How do you make Shiira the default browser, I have it selected in Safari, however when I try to select it in the Shiira prefances it is greyed out. When I click on a link in another app it will not open in Shiira, other than that it seems to be working fine-and it is by far the fastest browser I have tried.

Is there something out there for us that will render pages in the EFFED up way Windows/IE does? That would be an amazing tool for designers that refuse to buy a crapbox only for testing purposes. Isn't there a version of IE6 that runs on Intel Macs? What about PowerPCs?

Why would you say that you use Shiira to test site compatability? Doesn't it render pages in exactly the same way that Safari will?

Few things Shiira must get in order to become one of the best mac browsers.
- Site specific user style sheets.
- An ad blocker, or a 3rd party who makes one.
- Keychain access that is compatible with passwords made in Safari and Camino.
- Something like Greasemonkey for FireFox.

Love the full screen view. But they could make the floating controls much, much smaller. A button to access bookmarks would be nice, as well as the option to display an address bar within the floating controls. I can see myself using that view mode often, but I'd love to be able to manually access addresses in that view.

They could do with cleaning up their forum though, I've never seen so much spam!!

i just downloaded Benjamin Elliss linked one and its funny, it actually doesnt open this site properly in tabs (uses up loads to open different bits) plus its in japanese i think so a bit hard to set preferences. the tab expose is good though!, still cant figure out how to use it to access safari / firefox bookmarks like the screenshot on the website shows

Add my name to the list of those who hadn't heard of Shiira until I spotted this. Thanks to TUAW for directing me to this. I've played with it for a day or two and have to say that I like it a lot. Like others, I find it faster than Safari while still maintaining Safari's overall look and feel. These developers look as if they're well worth watching.

Thanks also for the link to the preview of version 2.0. This looks really promising. All in all, Shiira could turn out to be the only alternative which seriously threatens Safari. A great find. Thanks again.

Shiira is already awesome, the only feature lacking from the current version is Keychain support.

For a look at other 'alternative' Mac browsers, check out:

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

They didnt cease support for safari, im checking my gmail right now... and since Shiira is built on webkit, id assume compatibility with gmail.

I tried shiira, but never really found it replacing safari (same can be said with camino, firefox, opera, omniweb). But v2 looks like it will be really nice. If it is as nice as it looks right now, Im sure it will be replacing Safari on my dock...