Kazehakase
Web browser for Unix systems, 2003–2009
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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.
Initial releaseJanuary 29, 2003
| Kazehakase | |
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 Screenshot of Kazehakase | |
| Initial release | January 29, 2003 |
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| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Web browser Feed reader |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine |
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