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
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