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It still wasn’t the quickest in our tests: 6,395ms in SunSpider is mid-table at best, while a 3.8secs startup time is nothing to boast about.
#Sleipnir review windows 7#
On switching to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8’s engine, however, we had no problems with stability. Load up more than three or four tabs and the system slowed down even further, and at seven tabs, it gave up and crashed. Under Windows XP, and using Internet Explorer 7’s rendering engine, we found Sleipnir infuriatingly clunky and slow. Half is in Japanese and the other half is translated with only mixed success.Īnother issue is speed. Compared to the Chinese browsers such as GreenBrowser this doesn’t affect the user interface, which follows a similar logic to Mozilla Firefox, but Sleipnir’s Japanese origins become very obvious in the support page. Sleipnir is native to Japan, where it enjoys huge success as the third most popular web browser (behind Internet Explorer and Firefox) with double the market share of Chrome.
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It gives you “more options” when downloading and opening files, but the extra options are changing the download location and offering you the choice to open from the web – features available as standard in the bigger browsers. The OpenLink Extension is less impressive. SnapCrab, described as “a useful plug-in for taking a screenshot of the web page”, may seem a useless addition, but it does give you the option of capturing the mouse cursor along with the page (useful for training purposes). Glanchip provides a preview of a tabbed window when you hover the tab, while the Superdrag extension allows mouse gestures. There aren’t many plugins – just 13 – and they’re of varying use.
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There’s one for fans of Internet Explorer 6, another called “Simple” (the default choice) and a third which mimics an older Sleipner layout. Quite aside from the downloadable skins, a “design” feature lets you choose one of three layouts. Sleipnir’s customisability doesn’t stop there.