Kazehakase
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 Screenshot of Kazehakase | |
| Initial release | January 29, 2003 |
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| Stable release | 0.5.8 (September 29, 2009) [±] |
| Repository |
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| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type |
Web browser Feed reader |
| License | GNU General Public License v2 |
| Website | Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. |
Kazehakase (Japanese: Dr. Wind (風博士 kaze hakase)) is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines (e.g. GtkHTML, Dillo, w3m).[1]
The browser is named after the short story "Kazehakase" by the Japanese author Ango Sakaguchi; its literal meaning is "Dr. Wind" (a PhD rather than a medical doctor).
Kazehakase is free software, available under the GNU General Public License. It has been available at repositories for Debian[2] and Ubuntu,[3] and has been ported to FreeBSD.[4]
Kazehakase seems to be no longer in active development since 2012.
Features
Notable features include:
- Support for RSS as well as its Japanese variants LIRS and HINA-DI[1]
- Drag-and-drop of browser tabs
- Mouse gestures
- Import of bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, Netscape Browser, Galeon, Konqueror, and w3m; shared bookmarks (with XBEL)
- "Smart Bookmarks" programmable with regular expressions
- Full text search in browser history
References
- 1 2 "About Kazehakase". Sourceforge. May 23, 2010. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Description at debian.org, for Debian 5.0 (lenny). Accessed 28 March 2012.
- ↑ Description at ubuntu.com, for 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Accessed 28 March 2012.
- ↑ Page at Freshports. Accessed 28 March 2012.
External links
- Kazehakase project on OSDN
- Review (unspecified date) of version 0.3 (in French)
- Review (March 2007) of unspecified version
- Review (April 2007) of version 0.4.5
