Kazehakase (

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

: ) was a

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for

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operating systems that uses the

GTK+ GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and proprie ...

libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+

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. The browser is named after the short story "Kazehakase" by the Japanese author

Ango Sakaguchi was a Japanese writer of short stories and novels and an essayist. His real name was . Biography Born in Niigata, Sakaguchi was one of a group of young Japanese writers to rise to prominence in the years immediately following Japan's defeat i ...

; its literal meaning is "Dr. Wind" (a PhD rather than a medical doctor).

Features

Notable features include: *Support for

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as well as its Japanese variants LIRS and HINA-DI *

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of browser tabs *

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s *Import of bookmarks from

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Galeon Galeon is a discontinued Gecko-based web browser that was created by Marco Pesenti Gritti with the goal of delivering a consistent browsing experience to GNOME desktop environment. It gained some popularity in the early 2000s due to its speed, ...

Konqueror Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems (such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image). It forms a core part of ...

, and

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; ''shared bookmarks'' (with

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) *" Smart Bookmarks" programmable with

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s *

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in browser history

References

External links

Kazehakase project
on OSDN

(unspecified date) of version 0.3
Review
(March 2007) of unspecified version
Review
(April 2007) of version 0.4.5 {{Aggregators Gopher clients POSIX web browsers Free web browsers Gecko-based software News aggregator software Web browsers that use GTK