Shiira v2 beta released

I saw Shiira mini and downloaded it. Pretty cool.

I really don't see anything getting me off of firefox any time soon. The ability to use all the extensions and write me own to customize it and have it be the same environment on every computer I work on, be it windows, mac, or *nix just is too nice to make me want to change for some fancy UI effects which in my opinion tend to always just slow me down trying to use my browser.

I'm very impressed indeed! Yes, it is unstable, yes, all features have not yet been implemented - but - they told us as much :). I can see where a lot of thought, debate and midnight oil has been burned in producing this beta, and am truly looking forward to great things from the "Shiira Project," as others have already mentioned, the potential is awesome :)!

Hmmm... Omnigroup should get worried about this...

@blackout: Its a beta. Its says "very unstable" on the second line of the blog entry. What do you expect?

New. Innovative. Brings something to the table. I welcome Shiira 2.

I'm a Camino man, but I love any browser that pushes the rest to improve, and Shiira is certainly breaking many norms. Hoorah!

Umm... I like it. Way better than the old Shiira. Like they say, it is not entirely useful yet as a beta, but I will be downloading it again when version 2 comes full circle.

I don't like Safari, so I am trying to find a good webcore based browser and so far I'm empty handed because of the one thing mozilla's creatures still have on us: ad blocking. (pith helmet, I know) This new shiira has no ad-blocking-via-css ability, which I really really want.

P.S. Tab expose is cool.

I agree The Sidebar was an awesome idea and to me an advantage over every other browser I use. I hate a popup downloads window I hope when the make the final version 2.0 it has that feature back.

Ill be using 1.2 until a stable version is released

Hmmm, I don't think I like it. It's.....well.....diffrent....

Part of what I like about Shiira right now is the sidebar. That option so stay in Shiira 2. I mean, I couldn't even figure out how to pause a download.

also, the scrolling in this using the two-finger trackpad ability is FANTASTIC. even better than safari and i did NOT expect that! usually, other mac browers fall short of this capability and shiira has somehow been able to exceed my expectations. very very very cool.

however, another gripe about the tabs is that i wish they could be shrunk down in height a bit more. i had to customize the toolbar so that it would display "icon only" to make the toolbar less heavy and take up less space. i mean, if i left the default toolbar and had the page dock on as well, it left VERY little webpage space. i'd recommend an option to move the pagedock to the left/right like in omniweb or just simply do what opera does preview a tab by hovering your mouse over it for a few seconds.