SOUTHPAWAMI  .. just to give an actual review..

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.   
(Version 1.5.7)

WEB-JIVE  This would be a good web devs browser if it used the latest webkit inspector. Saying this is great for web development without this is a bit overstated.  
(Version 2.0.1)

DJSNICKLES  this app is great for webdev. it has a couple bugs, and is missing some features, but it not a memory hog like safari and firefox.

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.  
(Version 1.8.5)

IGREG  Frighteningly slow for me. I just downloaded 1.8.4 and it dragged terribly and was unusable.  
(Version 1.8.3)

PHALERON  Nice to see a browser that still fits on a floppy. Compared with Safari (66MB unzipped) it's amazing it can do as much.  
(Version 1.7.8)

SOUTHPAWAMI  When ya just want some quick surfing... get something done kind of thing, Sunrise is just the ticket.

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..  
(Version 1.5.7)

NINJABOY  I like being able to save webpages as PDF docs - something other browsers don't support.

However, I'm only getting 2-3 minutes of use out of this app before it "unexpectedly quits". -Why?  
(Version 1.4.9)

AJUNG  Nothing of particular interest that is not available with other Firefox plugins that are much more powerful.  
(Version 1.4.6)

FROMAGE-HEAD  the myth of working with transparency

-half efficient coding

-half efficient preview  
(Version 1.3.8)

8OO8  As I've learned, since SunriseBrowser is developed particularly for web developers, it lacks features that

web developers don't really need and importing bookmarks is, apparently, one of them.

Too bad, since SB is really fast......I'd like to use it but its lack of bookmark importing makes it crippled and cumbersome. It lacks other rather essential features for many of us non-developers, too, such as decent cookie control.

And SB's graphic bookmarks are just not really useful for anyone but developers, I imagine. The graphic bookmarks take up quite a bit of screen real estate.

Oh, and SB's forum? Yeah, there are currently nothing but about 7 pages of spam/threads containing mostly links to porno sites. I'd say that the developer is clueless about them.....he likely doesn't ever bother to even check his forum. Puzzling. Amusing, though.....heh,heh,heh.  
(Version 1.3.8)