![]() For example, you have two Twitter accounts – one personal and one professional. It will store the login credentials in RAM as opposed to a cookie, so when you close that tab the stored information is erased. With it, you can log into two different accounts of your favorite social media site (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). What I find valuable is the “Single Session” functionality. Incognito, Private Browsing, and Single Session Browsing This is not good if you are finding yourself having a poor connection or one that is spotty, but if your source connection is strong, resuming and restarting will not be important. It does not resume broken downloads, nor is there an ability to start the download over – just the ability to stop and delete the item are all you can do. Stainless has a very minimal download manager. That is smooth, something I wish Safari would have incorporated. Searching from the Address Bar works as expected, but there is some eye candy in the grey drop shadowing and crisp white lettering of results. ![]() I have not tested that myself, but it is touted as a feature by the developer on the source code page. When you load the bookmark the next time, a Private Session will be created. Pretty cool really if you think about it – you created a Bookmark link to your favorite “ahem” site in Private Session. The good news about Bookmarks in Stainless is that they are session aware, meaning they remember if they were in Private Mode, Single Session, or in Multi-Session when you created the bookmark. This may be an individual taste, but I don’t like my bookmarks interjecting themselves visually, especially in what is billed as a minimalist browser. Plus the shelf seems to distract from the page being loaded. Unless you customize the icon, you will have a sea of default folder and default link icons, and it is visually difficult to determine which one is which when the website does not provide the icon. I find that kind of Bookmark arrangement works against the user. By default, they use the OS X folder icon, but you can add your own icon to the folder both during the setup of the folder, or through using it’s Properties window. They can be organized by right-clicking on the shelf to create folders, which you can then drag and drop the Bookmarks into. There is no ability to import existing bookmarks, although you can see a list of bookmarks that are in Safari or Firefox and drag them to the shelf. This is not a browser to customize.īookmarks are also minimalist – they appear on the lefthand side “Bookmarks shelf”. There are Preferences, but they are minimal as well. For example, the buttons on the top are static and unchangeable, consisting of just Back/Forward and Home. Stainless is very minimalist, and it was designed to be minimalist with little user customization. Additionally, each tab (process) runs in it’s own memory space, so closing one tab will free up memory back to OS X. Once the application is loaded, each tab sends a different number of threads to the processors based on the amount of data on each page. According to iStat Menu 3, both my processors were engaged heavily at first. ![]() Looking at Activity Monitor, each tab opens it’s own process, and they are processor-intense on first load. It paints itself as a multi-process browser, meaning each tab that is opened creates a separate process, so in theory a crash in one tab will not affect the other tabs and will not bring down the entire application. Stainless is based on the initial development of Google Chrome and uses WebKit as its engine. (Source code is available if you have an interest.) This has lead me to Stainless 0.8, a Chrome influenced browser that, while no longer in active development, is still available for download. Since I have made the Dual 1.8 MHz Power Mac G5 my primary machine, I have been on the hunt looking for an alternative to Safari 5.0.6.
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