SlimBrowser is a
tabbed multiple-site
web browser
A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application 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 scr ...
from FlashPeak, Inc., an
Austin, Texas
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-based company.
It formerly used the Microsoft
Trident layout engine. It incorporates a large collection of features like built-in
popup killer, skinned window frame,
form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation,
script error suppression,
blacklist
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/
whitelist
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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 Asso ...
users of
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...
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 are unique among lizards ...
engine, counting versions from V10.0.
Other browsers
FlashPeak also makes the cross-platform browser SlimJet which uses
Chromium
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Chromium ...
(
Blink engine).
SlimBoat used
WebKit
WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon K ...
,
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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