Stainless is a multi-process browser for OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has features you won't find in Chrome or in any other browser.
A prime example is parallel sessions, which allow you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time. This new technology is woven throughout
What's New
Version 0.8:
new: Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility
new: 64-bit build
added: ability to stop downloads in progress
added: tab from autocomplete row selects URL for editing
added: 3 finger swipe gesture left/right for back/forward (use with option key under Lion)
optimized: faster multi-process manager
fixed: backward and forward menus may fail for dynamic pages
fixed: failed partial downloads aren't cleaned up
Version 0.8:
new: Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility
new: 64-bit build
added: ability to stop downloads in progress
added: tab from autocomplete row selects URL for editing
added: 3 finger swipe gesture left/right for back/forward (use with option key under Lion)
• An ad-blocker. And a serious one that blocks as much as the add-ons available with the major browsers, so look at AdBlock, ABP etc and be good as those for blocking all ads everywhere and have way of blocking the 1 or 2 that get through manually too with a right-click function
• 1password support
• Gestures. Can't even do a swipe for forward and back with BTT because for some reason it won't work, the only application I can think of that BTT has not worked with when I have tried it
• Ability to set desired precise search engine string for location bar
• Also seems to have issues with History
• Can I just say ad blocker a 2nd time. And if you can't make it very effective indeed should be a way to add a blocking CSS to improve it
This is one of the unsung heroes. This browser has got the best flash player performance and the best processor management. This is a gem... of course lacks of many goodies as FF, Chrome or Safari, but if you are looking for something slim with a fast performance, this is the one.
Stainless is an excellent, light browser that really gives me what I need. I love that, unlike Safari, I can close a tab and recover all memory associated with it.
Unfortunately I haven't seen any development since 2009. What I'm missing the most is a more elegant way to organize bookmarks and a 1password integration.
I would really like to help getting this project back on track!
Glad to see this is becoming a full fledged project. The parallel session technology that "allows you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time" is super cool, especially for Web developers. And Stainless already passes the Acid 3 test. Firfefox 3.5 doesn't even do this yet. Certainly it's missing a lot of features that would make it useful as you daily browser, but it's of to a really good start.
I love innovative ideas like this, but what results is that each tab is a process that on average takes around 39MB of RAM. If I were to use this browser as I use Firefox, with 4 windows open, each with about 8 tabs, I'd be out over a gig of RAM, where Firefox manages to keep the memory usage below 300MB, with more features and several plugins installed.
This browser sounds really exciting! I'm a long time Firefox user (since the days when it was called Phoenix) and I'm truly disappointed in how bloated, buggy, and memory-intensive Firefox has become. It all boils down to leadership and the Mozilla Foundation has been operating like a beast with too many heads for years now. I want my lean, mean privacy-conscious browser back -- not this gargantuan, crash-prone imposter who shares a bed with Google.
As soon as this browser implements 1Password and a decent ad-blocking program, Firefox's days are numbered.
This is a great browser! Its missing a few features of a full browser but even so I have been using it as my main portal to the intertubes. The bookmark shelf is genius and the load times seem to beat Safari 4. Also biggest plus it doesn't eat memory like safari! And running youtube on a separate task speeds that up immensely. Can't wait for the full release! O and no crashes or hang ups yet...
It really is a new browser experience with release 0.5.4 because I can't get it to display a window, something that wasn't happening with 0.5.3 and earlier releases.
Otherwise, it's interesting, but it seems much earlier than the version numbers would suggest.
[Version 0.5.4]
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Anonymouscommented on 23 Mar 2009
A few people have reported this with 0.5.X versions. All have confirmed that launching Stainless from a new or Guest account works, so it appears to be a conflict. If you can, please do send us a System Profile -- we'd love to track this down and figure out what is causing Stainless to fail. Thanks!
It's very fast, clean, nice to use, I love this bookmarks bar idea and it hasn't crashed so far.
I'm very impressed and looking forward for future release. I'll stay with safari, because it has some feature (1password, glims, safariblock (ok, they're not a feature, they're add-ons)) that I need, but if in the future Stainless will implement
-1password
-adblocker
-keyword search
I'll definetly switch.
[Version 0.5.2]
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Stainless is a multi-process browser for OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has features you won't find in Chrome or in any other browser.
A prime example is parallel sessions, which allow you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time. This new technology is woven throughout Stainless, from the private cookie storage system, to session-aware bookmarks that remember the session in which they were saved. We're excited to showcase what we believe is a true browser innovation.
+8
El-Duderino reviewed on 06 Nov 2011
• An ad-blocker. And a serious one that blocks as much as the add-ons available with the major browsers, so look at AdBlock, ABP etc and be good as those for blocking all ads everywhere and have way of blocking the 1 or 2 that get through manually too with a right-click function
• 1password support
• Gestures. Can't even do a swipe for forward and back with BTT because for some reason it won't work, the only application I can think of that BTT has not worked with when I have tried it
• Ability to set desired precise search engine string for location bar
• Also seems to have issues with History
• Can I just say ad blocker a 2nd time. And if you can't make it very effective indeed should be a way to add a blocking CSS to improve it
+27
Edgarcabrera reviewed on 28 May 2011
+25
Macjudge reviewed on 13 May 2011
Unfortunately I haven't seen any development since 2009. What I'm missing the most is a more elegant way to organize bookmarks and a 1password integration.
I would really like to help getting this project back on track!
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 29 Apr 2011
+2
+115
Shock-J reviewed on 07 Jul 2009
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As soon as this browser implements 1Password and a decent ad-blocking program, Firefox's days are numbered.
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raptor01 reviewed on 24 Mar 2009
+66
bousozoku reviewed on 23 Mar 2009
Otherwise, it's interesting, but it seems much earlier than the version numbers would suggest.
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Giovanni Lanzani reviewed on 06 Mar 2009
It's very fast, clean, nice to use, I love this bookmarks bar idea and it hasn't crashed so far.
I'm very impressed and looking forward for future release. I'll stay with safari, because it has some feature (1password, glims, safariblock (ok, they're not a feature, they're add-ons)) that I need, but if in the future Stainless will implement
-1password
-adblocker
-keyword search
I'll definetly switch.
hans789 rated on 23 Jan 2012
+3
Kana01 rated on 28 Jul 2011
+2
mikehaas rated on 25 Jul 2011
Dtobin rated on 25 Jul 2011
+3
Barisart rated on 29 Jan 2011