Kazehakase

Kazehakase

Screenshot of Kazehakase
Initial release	January 29, 2003 (2003-01-29)
Final release	0.5.8[1][2]  / 29 September 2009
Repository	svn.osdn.jp/svnroot/kazehakase/
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Web browser Feed reader
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

Kazehakase (Japanese: Dr. Wind (風博士, kaze hakase)) is a discontinued web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit.

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).

Features

Notable features include:

• Support for RSS as well as its Japanese variants LIRS and HINA-DI^[3]
• 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. "ChangeLog".
2. "Revision 3873: /kazehakase/tags/Release_0_5_8".
3. "About Kazehakase". SourceForge. May 23, 2010. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2010.

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