![]() ![]() to start development of a new version of Sleipnir. In 2005, Kashiwagi established Fenrir & Co. In November 2004, the computer containing Sleipnir's source code was stolen. Sleipnir was originally developed by Yasuyuki Kashiwagi. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Android, iPhone/ iPad and Windows Phone. Further translations are performed by volunteer translators. Sleipnir was originally created in Japanese and then released with English and Chinese translations. The names Sleipnir and Fenrir are both animals from Norse mythology. support WebKit rendering engine implemented and Gecko rendering engine support terminated. It supports HTML5 and the engine of Internet Explorer 9 (Trident). The browser's main features are customization and tab functions. Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. While testing its vector graphics capabilities, Sleipnir choked hard, obliging me to force quit.Windows 98 to Windows 7, but for version 3.0.2 only Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6/10.7 iOS In benchmarking tests against the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, Sleipnir never ranked higher than the middle of the pack, and often wound up at the bottom. It also seems bad at multitasking, becoming moderately unresponsive whenever you’re doing anything processor-intensive in one of your tabs. WebKit engine as Safari, it had trouble properly rendering a few fairly simple pages properly. Gestures weren’t the only place where Sleipnir’s ambitions fell short of its execution. I would’ve appreciated an option in Preferences to switch how these gestures worked. This fits with Sleipnir’s tab-centric design, but still takes a lot of getting used to. To go forward or back in your browsing history, you swipe up, and then to the left or right. Sleipnir also assigns the two-finger horizontal swipe-which every other browser uses to go forward and back-to navigating through its list of open tabs instead. Gestures: Sleipnir supports gestures, if you use a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. (You’ll need to know how those sites handle their search strings, but it’s not too hard to figure out.) Hit the tab key, and you can look up that same term on Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, or any other site you wish to add. Once you type in a search, pressing Return gives you results from the search engine of your choice (which you can specify in the Preferences). Sleipnir’s search box is also impressive, packing maximum usefulness into a clear, easy-to-operate design. Smarter searching soothes the bookmark blues It’s one of Sleipnir’s most useful and well-implemented features. By swiping back and forth, and pinching open and closed, you can switch between various tab groups or pages with one hand, and without ever needing to click. Like Safari 6, the page you’re viewing shrinks into a carousel of open tabs and tab groups. That comes in handy in Sleipnir’s TiledTab view, activated by pinching the main browser window inward (Sleipnir is programmed to work with gestures you can perform on a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad). Bookmarks: You can only use your bookmarks bar when opening a new tab. ![]() You can also drag tabs atop one another to group them together. Rolling over each tab with your mouse shows the tab’s name and gives the option to close it. Opera pioneered that idea, but Sleipnir’s tabs remain constantly visible and strike a nice balance between being large enough to identify but small enough not to intrude on the main browser window. In place of the URL bar, Sleipnir displays a horizontally scrolling array of thumbnailed tabs. ![]()
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