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Love WebKit, Hate Safari

I love the speed and features of WebKit but I hate the UI of Safari. Maybe I can get over the clumsy UI in time?

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5 Responses to “Love WebKit, Hate Safari”

  1. Stuart Langridge Says:
    November 10th, 2007 at 20:31

    Is there not a Webkit-but-not-Safari browser on the Mac? If you have Linux boxes available then there’s a Webkit browser for Linux with a different (minimal at the moment, I think) UI.

  2. Erik Arvidsson Says:
    November 10th, 2007 at 20:51

    OmniWeb uses Webkit

  3. Auguste Baldessin Says:
    November 10th, 2007 at 22:28

    Shiira maybe ?

    here : http://shiira.jp/en.php

  4. Sebastian Werner Says:
    November 11th, 2007 at 2:55

    Shiira use it definitely. But what exactly you find clumsy? With the new Leopard skin it look quite good on Macs.

  5. Erik Arvidsson Says:
    November 11th, 2007 at 14:07

    The look of the UI is not so bad on a Mac. The look of the UI on Windows is terrible.

    I found the way that tabs work, the keyboard shortcuts, no support for back/forward mouse buttons etc to annoy me to death.

    Shiira: I’ll give it a try when I figure out how to get it to run with a nightly webkit. Safari 2 webkits are a joke. They don’t even support ECMAScript correctly.

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