Preferences don't work. Lots of bugs.

This one is so disappointing. This app was once so promising. How long did we have to wait for this new version? 2 years? And it still doesn't really work right now. The preferences window is useless. The app is unusable and crippled to the severest extent.

I'm sorry. I give up on Shiira. The project has lost its focus and turned to a joke.

Shiira is the browser you'll love to hate. It has promise and some nice features (full screen browsing window is great for developers to showcase their sites to their clients), but it poorly maintained and rife with bugs which sadly makes it of little value.

The last thing you want is your browser to crash. It's right up there with your mail client throwing in the towel: infuriating. Sadly, Shiira is a really big let down in this department. It's always been far too unstable to rely on.

While the UI is very refined and the team have always pioneered an overall sexy design, ultimately it is just too flaky and inconsistent.

Shiira is more of a testcase than anything truly of value. It seems developers are using it to simply try out new code rather than make an actual product for mainstream consumption (or any kind of consumption for that matter). Everything is half done, like those people that love home repairs, but just can't seem to ever finish a project. That's what Shiira feels like. Things are implemented, but never truly finished.

All this does is give Shiira a pretty face, but not much else. A clunky backend and some half-baked ideas make it a novelty rather than a real piece of software you can fire up on a daily basis. A shame really. These are those rare programs that have always shown a glimmer of hope...

Over the past few years I have attempted to download and use Shiira every time a new version appears, why? Today version 2.3 appears and again I decide to give it another shot. I like the interface and it has always looked a promising browser so I gave it another try. Again why? It just doesn't work and has always had so many problems, in 2.3 the preferences do not open and without them it is a waste of time even attempting to use this browser. The Shiira home page is so confusing and now asks you to log on to some obscure website, why do we bother? Shiira would have a strong following if only they got their act together but they never seem to be able to. Time to give up, I think so!

Ok, could not download 2.3 from website, so I went for the SourceForge project page. 2.3 has a date-stamp of 2009-08-11 17:47. I'll take a look at this, but... what gives? Is this just a bump? And why are there no updates on the Shiira website? Why is it asking me to log in (Basic Authentication) and why does the PHP script not render as HTML (Content-Type: text/plain)? What lies in the shadow of the staue? What did one snowman say to the other snowman?

So many questions!

When I try my portal url, it downloads to the desktop. Refreshing the code on the server helps for a short time. It loads properly on Safari, Camino, Sunrise, Omniweb, Opera. Still I like Shiira a lot, and appreciate their efforts.

How do you turn on the "turn page" effect as seen in the preview ??

I love this new browser and is SO close to being my one and only but the issue with not being able to add search engines to the toolbar search needs to be fixed as well as the sidebar (which is a solid idea) which needs to be more aesthetically pleasing and effective (not everything can be read in it). Thanks for making this great app!

It's early Friday morning in Chicago. I have tried two times to download Shiira 1.0-----It will NOT OPEN UP AFTER BEING PUT IN THE HARDRIVE.

Please check your download for a defect that prevents from being downloaded.
Ware Adams, Chicago