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Its awesome! As stable as 'Fox or 'Mino, but it looks hella cool, and I dunno, I like the lil' icon too.

Its cute, and functional. Me loves Shiira. Shiira cool!

Here's a screenshot of the icon set, and theme I have chosen: (Already built-in, no hunting down for a half decent theme, unlike 'Fox and co)
 

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josh.thomas said:
Its cute, and functional.

It does have a real nice look to it. Have you run into any particular limitations as compared to the better known browsers that you consider drawbacks? BTW, how did you get the green coloring in the iTunes windows?
 
Deepdale said:
It does have a real nice look to it. Have you run into any particular limitations as compared to the better known browsers that you consider drawbacks?

None. Drawbacks in Safari were that it was slow, and didn't load some webpages (more annoyingly, my router page). Bonusus were, it looked good, and didn't take up much system resources. It tied in nicely with the other iApps.

Drawbacks for all other common known (Fox, Camino) were that they were damn ugly, and even with themes they still, to me, didn't look 'right'. I also hated the way Tabs were organised in both apps, and it just felt too 'fiddly' to get right.

Shiira looks awesome. I have it set to Aqua icons, the square ones, with the brushed metal look - which can all be set from the Prefs, no downloading etc. I also made the icons smaller by right-clicking the icon bar as it looks more 'refined'. The tabs are organised in the same way as Safari by default, but you can customise them as to how you want them opened/organised. Its a brilliant app, and I'm glad its Uni. to run on my MB when I get it :D

Deepdale said:
BTW, how did you get the green cloring in the iTunes windows?

I only found this out myself yesterday! Its actually REALLY simple! You can either make your own Colourscheme, by downloading ThemePark, although its only a trial and costs $20.

Or you can download an iTunes '.rsrc' file (basically, its holds all the graphics that make up the look of iTunes). You back up your old one, and drag the new one into the correct folder, and voila, new colour.

You can customise LCD colour, scroll colour, button colour, everything, with ThemePark. Its brilliant! All my information is from Markkk! He's a genius! PM me if you want exact info. on what to do. :)
 
josh.thomas said:
You can customise LCD colour, scroll colour, button colour, everything, with ThemePark.

Josh, I appreciate all the info provided. I may PM you later for details on how to make those color changes.
 
Deepdale said:
Josh, I appreciate all the info provided. I may PM you later for details on how to make those color changes.

Dim probs. (No probs, Welsh..)

I think I went over board with the amount I typed.. but I was excited... :eek:
 
josh.thomas said:
Drawbacks for all other common known (Fox, Camino) were that they were damn ugly, and even with themes they still, to me, didn't look 'right'.
I tweaked Camino to look as close to your screenshot as possible.
Do you still think it looks damn ugly? ;)

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solaris said:
I tweaked Camino to look as close to your screenshot as possible.
Do you still think it looks damn ugly? ;)

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Oooh, aren't we clever! ;)

Nah, it looks t'rific! Too bad its stealing its little sweety-like buttons from Shiira! lol

Anyway I can make my Camino like that, dude?

Anyway, my iTunes beats your iTunes so there! :p
 
I love shiira, but the site hasn't been updated in months... and the forum on their page has been defaced by ads. I fear for Shiira's future! Does anyone know what is going on with the development?
 
nonregulator said:
I love shiira, but the site hasn't been updated in months... and the forum on their page has been defaced by ads. I fear for Shiira's future! Does anyone know what is going on with the development?

What needs to be updated?
 
I used Shiira extensively since it was in .6 dev. I loved it, it was so much faster than Safari. However, in the recent past I switched to Camino because Shiira didn't keep my passwords all too well and other reasons I don't recall. I may pick it back up again some day, I love switching browsers.
 
solaris said:
I tweaked Camino to look as close to your screenshot as possible.
Do you still think it looks damn ugly? ;)

How do you get Camino to look like that?
 
Bubbasteve said:
I'm a fan of Flock personally

Flock is getting better with each release. I don't use it as a primary browser yet, but I run it every once in awhile because I love the integration with flickr and del.icio.us.
 

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radiantm3 said:
Am I the only one that things that screenshot of Shiira looks horrible?

I like it better with the defaults.
 

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josh.thomas said:
You can customise LCD colour, scroll colour, button colour, everything, with ThemePark. Its brilliant! All my information is from Markkk! He's a genius! PM me if you want exact info. on what to do. :)


oo snaps given me credit :p

I love Shiira. I like the tabs expose & then loading ... turn page thingy.

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THAT thingy. It's cool, but only when you have a fast internet connection & computer.
 
lol as sad as this is... that turn page thingy just got me sold. i'm gonna download it and give it a shot when i get home from work today. :)
 
ResExcellence was a great site 'till Scott left & came 2 new owners who turned it into a stupid wiki with no ''content'' :mad:
 
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