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DeskBrowse is lightweight and has a very responsive interface. Experience the web with blazing speed, as individual pages load faster and scroll smoother. Convenient: We developed DeskBrowse with one thing in mind: a way to get information from the web quickly and easily in a nice user interface with the least hassle involved for the end user. The browser is toggled in and out of the side of the screen via a hotkey. Secure: DeskBrowse is built on the powerful and fast open source WebKit KHTML engine, (one of the only engines to have ever passed the prestigious Acid2 test as well as
What's New
Version 1.0:
- Now Free
- Universal Binary
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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DeskBrowse is lightweight and has a very responsive interface. Experience the web with blazing speed, as individual pages load faster and scroll smoother. Convenient: We developed DeskBrowse with one thing in mind: a way to get information from the web quickly and easily in a nice user interface with the least hassle involved for the end user. The browser is toggled in and out of the side of the screen via a hotkey. Secure: DeskBrowse is built on the powerful and fast open source WebKit KHTML engine, (one of the only engines to have ever passed the prestigious Acid2 test as well as other tests such as the Scanit Browser Security Test) making it one of the most secure web browsers in the world!
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rampancy reviewed on 04 Jul 2006
Good: It's quite fast and doesn't take up any more CPU/Memory than Mozilla. You can hide the menubar and dock icon when it launches to save space and hassle. Very nice.
Not So Good: It's crashed for no reason on me once, and I don't know how to configure the prefs once I've hidden the menubar and dock icon. The hotkey for making the window slide in and out doesn't seem to change when I change it in the preferences dialog - I had to change my spotlight hotkeys as a result because those conflicted with the defaults.
All in all, it's something I might use as my main browser from now on - it's a nice complement to other apps of the same style like sidenote and Xshelf.
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Can I have my 10 bux back please?
No asian language support?
Therefore, this ain't going to replace my Safari.
Nice interface tho :)
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Gaoshan reviewed on 31 Jan 2006
However, I gave it a fair tryout. Here are the results:
On launch it tells me there is a newer version available. I click the download button, it crashes.
I do this again, it crashes.
I decide not to upgrade and on the third launch I am able to use DeskBrowse.
It is pretty neat! The browser is super fast, compact and I really like how it slides in and out from the side when needed. It also seems very quick. It uses very little memory (was using 36mb after 10 minutes of use).
My overall feeling (ignoring the repeated crashes)? Convenient, slick little browser. Too bad it costs money. I can't imagine paying for a web browser so I will never switch to DeskBrowse. If you can, however, you may like this.
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That would be terrific.
Now I had read other harsh reviews about how this wasn't worth any money. I feel that no browser is worth money. Why? If you look at OmniWeb and compare it to others, it isn't that great compared to them and it's shareware. I can understand that the developers of this browser are young and want to earn some money but this definately is not the right market to do so. If it was an application like BeerAlchemy, which is in its own specific market and there aren't many competitors that can live up to it due to it's UI and functionality (in which this case DeskBrowse does except their are browser that are similiar or plug ins that do the same for free). Yeah I'm rambling but I think you get the idea.
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In any case, there's just no need for another browser, unless M$ decide to re-open development and give us an up-to-date, comparable version of their product for our platform.
This project was obsolete before it began.
As far as 'attention to detail' goes, it's obvious English is not his first language, and slamming him for that is pretty infantile.
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ik wil die file niet meer zien..
when using menuextras, each time I start DeskBrowse, a annoying file called main.dbmenu is created on my desktop... if it was created in a directory like Preference, I would have no problem with it. But it appears each time on my Desktop also when deleting the file..
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