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Atsushi Jike
Sunrise (formerly known as SunriseBrowser) is a web browser for web developers. This software is developed with Cocoa/Objective-C by Xcode, and uses the same KHTML rendering engine as Safari. This is light, space-saving and gives the functions for web developers.
- Auto-resizable window (640,800,1024,fullscreen fullheight)
- Transparent window (both web page window & source window)
- Able to create PDF file from web page
- Draw URL string on the screen
- URL copy command (page title copy)
- Icon of the web site is able to save
- URL input field & web
What's New
Version 2.2.0:
- Updated Spanish resources (Thanks, Emilio Perez Egido)
- Updated Italian resources (Thanks, Giacomo Margarito)
- Added "Open in Application..." item to the context menu.
- You can open current url or linked url in the other application.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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Sunrise (formerly known as SunriseBrowser) is a web browser for web developers. This software is developed with Cocoa/Objective-C by Xcode, and uses the same KHTML rendering engine as Safari. This is light, space-saving and gives the functions for web developers.
- Auto-resizable window (640,800,1024,fullscreen fullheight)
- Transparent window (both web page window & source window)
- Able to create PDF file from web page
- Draw URL string on the screen
- URL copy command (page title copy)
- Icon of the web site is able to save
- URL input field & web searching field share the field
- URL specified downloader
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Until now, it was the fastest browser I've tried.
Because I'm not a developper, and because it has nothing really high-level regarding bookmarks, I'm using it exclusively to view videos on specific sites that doesn't display too well on other browsers.
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Djsnickles reviewed on 19 Feb 2010
i can't get sunrise to load my development server: http://localhost:9001
no combination works, it just keeps searching google for 'localhost:9001'
as such, i can't really use it for web development
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Djsnickles reviewed on 27 Sep 2009
bugs:
* random constant dialog box popping up that says "the file could not be found", or something to that effect
* occasional crashes
* window resizing is slow; i suspect because of the transparency toggle. i can live with it
* you have to press apple _shift_ + , to scale text larger
* typing "localhost:3000" into the url field searches google for "localhost:3000"; i have to type 'http://' everytime i want to go to a site. that's dumb. provide a toggle or something!
missing features:
* middle button click to open a new tab doesn't work, but apple click does
* tabs don't open in the background
* shiira can read safari's bookmarks without importing them; it would be nice if sunrise did the same
* right click on dock icon should include "new window" function
* right click adblock, like firefox?
* whitelist popup blocker (as in, allow localhost for webdev, and nobody else)
good points:
* small buttons and interface is awesome. keep with that!
* clicktoflash seems to work with sunrise as well. cool!
* fast! focuses on rendering html. i like it.
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iGreg reviewed on 13 Apr 2009
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southpawami reviewed on 07 Jan 2008
Sunrise becomes useful to me after turning the homepage to http://www.google.com , and making the bookmark images as small as they can go.
Due to a lack of submenus of bookmarks in the Bookmark menu which is unlike virtually every other browser out there, including Firefox, Sunrise excels at about 7 to 8 bookmarks on a newer widescreen MacBook(consumer). The bookmarks being images and offering color coded labels makes an instant recognition not found with submenu bookmarks.
In light of their bookmarks... which is their strength and their weakness, Sunrise would be quite a bit more useful on a variety of systems if they would allow choosing *which* bookmarks out of all your bookmarks are images, and keeping the rest of the bookmarks in a submenu system in the Bookmark menu. Also, an optionally viewed one line of bookmarks below the url address bar would be welcome.
The other issue, is the 12 tab issue on any old new MacBook(consumer w/somewhat shrunk Dock on the right or left of the screen instead of bottom). After 12 tabs, their is no arrow for a submenu that allows selection of the extra tabs. This is.. annoying. To most people this issue is nonexistent. To the average person that loves trying the newest browsers, this is a feature flaw.
And the third issue, is the no 'load in background tab' feature on right clicking a link. Every time you tell Sunrise to open a link in a new tab, Sunrise *selects* that tab as the current tab. This is a horrible thing if you want to research 10 different pages through Google really quick... you'd simply Google your search, then click each link you wanted to view to open up in a background tab, all the while staying on the same Google search. When you made all your selections, taking only a few seconds if you have a background tab feature, you could then look at each tab that opened in the background.
And... it would be nice if Sunrise added a menu option in the Sunrise menu to Clear All Cache instead of having to visit the Preferences menu.
Prior to 1.5.8, Sunrise seemed to be a little slow on the Acid2 test, which it nows seems to pass as if it were sleeping.
Stability is not Sunrise's strong point, as it's crashed on me a few times too many. However, as of this review, version 1.5.8 hasn't crashed yet.
Strange Yahoo issues like problems moving from Mail to Notes which are plaguing the Opera 9.25 right now, are non-existent in Sunrise 1.5.8
As usual, when a browser is interpreting to standards, many webpages sometimes look hideous, due to simple markup errors on the person responsible(though simple, can sometimes be crazy tough to figure out). So, odd looking webpages are probably not really Sunrise fault.. as I've become confident enough in Sunrise that it is usually more the author than Sunrise(most likely there are exceptions here).
So, by and large... Sunrise is the fastest loading web browser for Tiger that I know I can depend on to be useful and functional to what I commonly need.
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For example, checking mail, or studying kana, or drilling kanji online, Sunrise can't be beat because it's often faster loading websites and often faster loading up than other web browsers like Opera, Firefox, or Safari inside of Tiger.
It's a similar way with Tiger verse Leopard right now. If you need to get something done, chose Tiger, if you want to experiment, choose Leopard.(got both OSs on two separate partitions right now.)
For website testing, obviously finals *should* be tested through major webrowsers, like Firefox/Safari/IE6/IE7/Opera. At least one browser should pass Acid2 testing, which Sunrise 1.5.8 on my system seems to do easily. So... yes.. Sunrise actually could be used for creation stages of websites... maybe..
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However, I'm only getting 2-3 minutes of use out of this app before it "unexpectedly quits". -Why?
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hans789 rated on 23 Jan 2012