Firefox hasn’t felt right since version 2 was released. There are some nice new features, session restore being one of them. Although, it seems like this feature was added simply to alleviate the anger when the browser inevitably crashes every few days.

So the time has come, once again, to try some other browsers. When looking into Safari and the plugins available for it I stumbled across Shiira, a japanese developed Mac browser. Shiira is based on the Safari rendering engine, Web Kit, and their goal is to simply “create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari.” Shiira 2.0Beta has some great features such as Page Dock and an Exposé like method of viewing open tabs. After only briefly using Shiira I’m impressed and will be trying it out as my main browser over the next few weeks and will post up my thoughts. You can see screenshots of all the features here. A Mini version of Shiira is also available for use in the OS X dock.

A Safari plugin that I found via 43folders is Inquisitor 3 which enables Spotlight-like functionality in the Safari search bar. A very slick plugin and well worth a look if you are a safari user.