Cruisin' with Cruz

Just in case you thought web browser innovation had reached a plateau, yet another app based on Webkit has been released with a bunch of features that should make the competition sit up and take notice. Cruz is only at version 0.1, so don’t expect a lot at this stage — but here is some of the amazing stuff listed on the site:

Open plug-in architecture
Built-in userscripting
User styles
ÜberView for plug-in split views
Global keyboard shortcut
Single-window browsing mode
BrowsaBrowsa plug-in for sidebars
Session restore
Full-screen mode
Customizable shortcuts
Integrated gears-loading (InputManager)
Hidden “closed” windows
Thumbnail plug-in for CoverFlow
TinyURL creation/expansion
Automatic software updates
Custom user-agent strings
Full WebInspector
Custom window opacity/level/style

And I found even more under the File menu:

Mail link to this page . . .
Create tiny URL for this page
Down for everyone or just me

I couldn’t get the first two to work, but the third did indeed inform me that the site I was on was working fine.

Particularly encouraging is the fact that Cruz is being developed by Todd Ditchendorf, who created the wonderful Fluid, which allows you to create site-specific mini-browsers.

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 in Web-browsers