27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 1.2.2

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This Internet Explorer-based browser adds a number of tools to the shell, as its name suggests. Perhaps it's inevitable that the interface of 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser bewilders, with its 30-plus buttons, but it does let you choose to display fewer buttons. Wichio comes packed with a huge number of features, some of which we found useful, such as its network tools; others, such as the ability to add random sounds to mouse clicks, are just silly. We appreciated the tabbed-browsing feature, which let us quickly switch among sites and save groups of tabs as a bookmark. The most useful tool is the download manager, which resumes stopped transfers. The application's features include notification of e-mail and Web page updates, an alarm clock, a pop-up blocker, and automatic connecting and disconnecting. Another group of utilities offers searching, a dictionary, song lyrics, and weather lookups, but you can't customize the links for online resources. We like the new Private Surfing feature that lets you create private URL lists specific to your username that remain hidden when other users log in. The Lyrics Finder, which finds the lyrics to your currently playing song on Winamp, seems frivolous, but some people might find it useful. More advanced surfers will like the Whois, Traceroute, and DNS query tools. All these enhancements make Wichio eat much more memory than Internet Explorer, but high-end Internet users might deem it worth the extra load.

Publisher's description

From Revopoint :

Wichio is a Web browser with built-in 27 popular Internet utilities, which serve all kinds of Internet users. The program is very easy to use with one button for one utility. To set options of any utility, just right click that button. Open only this program to work like IE plus extra 27 utilities such as: 'Block Pop-up Windows', 'Download Manager', 'E-mail Alerts', 'Web Update Alerts' (useful for monitoring updates of your threads in message boards), 'Pre-Fetch' (speeds up your Web surfing), 'Delete History, Cache and Cookies' (lets no one trace where you have visited before), 'Show System Resources' (prevents your computer from crashing), 'Show My IP address', 'Fast Search', 'Weather', 'Auto Connect/Disconnect', 'Keep Connection Alive', 'IP-URL Checker', 'Talking Reminders', 'Voice after Download Complete', 'Whois', 'Traceroute', 'Click Sounds' (sound effects for link clicks), 'Images' (image effects on Web), 'Skins', etc.

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