SlimBrowser is a
tabbed multiple-site
web browser
A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...
from FlashPeak, Inc., an
Austin,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
-based company.
It formerly used the Microsoft
Trident layout engine. It incorporates a large collection of features like built-in
popup Popup, Pop up or pop-up may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Pop Up'' (album), a 2007 album by Yelle
* ''Pop Up'' (video game), a video game also known as ''Bumpy''
* Pop-up book, a book with three-dimensional pages
Computing
* Pop- ...
killer, skinned window frame,
form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation,
script error
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suppression,
blacklist
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/
whitelist
A whitelist, allowlist, or passlist is a mechanism which explicitly allows some identified entities to access a particular privilege, service, mobility, or recognition i.e. it is a list of things allowed when everything is denied by default. It is ...
filtering, and URL Alias.
SlimBrowser was one of the twelve
browser choices offered to
European Economic Area
The European Economic Area (EEA) was established via the ''Agreement on the European Economic Area'', an international agreement which enables the extension of the European Union's single market to member states of the European Free Trade Ass ...
users of
Microsoft Windows in 2010.
Since V6.0, SlimBrowser has adopted a multi-process architecture to improve stability and eliminate performance restrictions associated with traditional single-process browsers. SlimBrowser included a full-featured form filler with the support of multiple identities in V6.01.
After development had been paused, it started again in 2019, switching to
Gecko
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Geckos ar ...
engine, counting versions from V10.0.
FlashPeak also makes the cross-platform browser SlimJet which uses
Chromium
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Chromium metal is valued for its high corrosion resistance and h ...
. SlimBoat used
WebKit
WebKit is a browser engine developed by Apple and primarily used in its Safari web browser, as well as on the iOS and iPadOS version of any web browser. WebKit is also used by the BlackBerry Browser, PlayStation consoles beginning from the ...
,
but is no longer supported.
References
External links
Official website
Internet Explorer shells
Portable software
Windows web browsers
Software companies based in Texas
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