5 Lights Browser Beta
If you are bored with IE or Firefox, then try this one! A small and easy to use web browser that has some interesting features. At first, you could see the improved tabbed browsing, the tabs are small thumbnails of the sites you visit, with an autoselect feature as you move the mouse over them. Of course, the old styled tabbed browsing is on, so you could use the shortcut keys you get used from Firefox or Opera: Ctrl+T for “new tab”, Ctrl+TAB to “switch the tab” although Ctrl+W (“close the tab”) doesn’t work.
Obviously, there are some features that needs to be improved. At first, we might get very unconfortable with the Bookmarks tab. The links cannot be draged on it and it doesn’t support folder, as we are used from firefox. It looks like an advanced version of IE6 and nothing more.
Official description from the author:
5 Lights is a revolutionary browser that combines a host of new features into one package that allows for a simplified and much more productive browsing experience. These include:
* Picture Tabs
* Tracers (Image maps) that outline the path you have taken to browse the web
* Multi-tab searching that allows you to find a word or phrase within multiple tabs
* Add all or selected tabs to favourites and open them as a group to allow for more productive research
* Preview tabs without clicking on them!
Official Site http://www.5lights.net/
Download http://www.5lights.net/download2.php
System Requirements:
Internet Explorer 6 or above as well as the .Net framework 2.0 (installs automatically with the browser)
Tested on Microsoft Windows XP
Although I won’t get rid of Firefox, I must say I was impressed in a way, and I intend to keep an eye for the future developments of this cool new browser.
