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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 03, 2007
- Total Downloads: 4,831,026
- Downloads last week: 17,525
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 421 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The pickings sure aren't slim with this powerful browser, although one of the pickings took us some time to figure out. Slim Browser's tabbed interface allows you to look at multiple Web sites all at once. It looks and feels like the more popular Web browsers out there, with standard navigational and shortcut buttons, so you'll feel at ease trying to find your way around all of its features.
The extras will wow you. With more than a hundred skins to choose from, you can instantly change the appearance of the browser. One of our favorite features is the ability to create groups so that you can open and view your favorite sites with a single mouse click. There's also a shortcut menu so you can browse your Desktop, My Documents folder, and even the Control Panel--all from the browser window. The pop-up blocker is exceptional; we didn't encounter a single annoying ad during testing. What's more, you can view and recover blocked pop-ups in case there was something you missed.
It took us some time to figure out how to work the RSS feature, however. Luckily, the publisher provides an online forum, so we were able pinpoint an answer to our problem, and in no time, we were viewing our favorite RSS feeds directly from the browser. IE and Firefox beware: you've got some competition. We highly recommend users of all skill levels give Slim Browser a try.
Publisher's description
From FlashPeak :Slim Browser is a powerful and compact tabbed browser with full unicode support. It includes pop-up blocker, automatic Web-form filler and spell checker. It let you open several sites at once with the support of site groups. It provides one-click access to search engines via pre-defined quicksearch entries. You can easily define your own quicksearch entries. It provides one-click access to personal accounts via predefined autologin entries. It supports URL filter and in-page ad filter which blocks annoying advertisements and offensive content effectively. It is able to render RSS new feeds into readable web pages. It support URL alias and built-in commands. It also supports ftp file uploading. The built-in ScriptPad is able to edit JScript / VBScript and HTML files with syntax highlighting. The program interface is fully skinnable and a large collection of skins are available for download.
Version 4.10 build 009 is a bug fixing release.
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Version 4.10 build 009 is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 421 votes
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7 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
"This is very a very fast browser, but I can only give it 3.5 stars for now."
Pros: Maybe the fastest. It's customizable with many great skins. Imports all of my favorites and home page. But, like all IE based browsers, the newest version of "Java Runtime" doesn't work fully with it. Now, do I blame this on "Java" or the browsers? Who knows? But at times, I get a "Java" script error with this and all IE based browser. I do think it's the safest version of "Slim Browser" to date and like it a lot. It works great with "Vista" and it's installed on my computers. But because of these errors, I primarily use "Firefox" and "Opera" but neither is nearly this fast.
Cons: Still has to many tool bars by default. A couple have to be turned off to have more room in the browser to work.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
Pros: After years of using Avant I finally got tired of waiting for them to fix their latest mess-up. Research led me to Slim Browser. It has so many more features than Avant. No more hitting the floating photo bar to enlarge a picture: they have an icon on the toolbar for just that reason. Search engines: tons to chose from, quick click and you're checking anything from ebay to yahoo, acronyms and dictioneries included. Edit webpages right there. Wide range of features to select for personalized toolbars. SB loads pages really fast! A big plus!
Cons: There are several choices to close page tabs. I often right click. I'm used to CLOSE being on the bottom of the dialog box. SB has it at the top. Hopefully they'll move it down soon.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
Pros: Gets better with each newest version. I can get into Yahoo games, which for some unknown reasons, I can not get into using IE7.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
Pros: This is the best of all the browsers. Does everything you want a browser to do, and ignores all the junk the other browsers foist upon you. Why is this wonderful browser not used by everyone?
Cons: Everyone should know about this. Obviously not enough promotion.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Slim Browser 4.10 build 009
Pros: Works on IE only sites, more options than IE.
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