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{{short description|Web browser}}
{{Infobox web browser
| name                   = Shiira
| logo                   = [[Image:Shiira.png|64px]]
| screenshot             = [[Image:Shiira screenshot.png|220px]]
| caption                = Shiira (シイラ) 2.3 under Mac OS X 10.5.8
| developer              = Shiira Project
| released               =  {{Start date|2004|04|11}} (Version 0.9)
| discontinued           = Yes
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q1149857|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q1149857|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
| programming language   = [[Objective-C]] Cocoa
| operating system       = [[Software:Mac OS X Tiger|Mac OS X 10.4]] or later
| engine                 = [[Software:WebKit|WebKit]]
| language               = Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,Czech Language
| genre                 = [[Software:Web browser|Web browser]]
| license               = [[Software:BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]<ref name="license">{{cite web | url=http://shiira.jp/en.php/ | title=Shiira Project | access-date=2021-06-09 | archive-date=2010-10-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003170742/http://shiira.jp/en.php/ | url-status=dead}}</ref>
| website               = {{in lang|ja}} [http://shiira.jp/blog/ shiira.jp/blog]
}}
'''Shiira''' (シイラ, [[Social:Japanese language|Japanese]] for the [[Biology:Mahi-mahi|common dolphin-fish]]) is a discontinued [[Open-source model|open source]] [[Software:Web browser|web browser]] for the [[Software:MacOS|Mac OS X]] [[Operating system|operating system]].  According to its lead developer Makoto Kinoshita, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than [[Software:Safari (web browser)|Safari]]". Shiira used [[Software:WebKit|WebKit]] for [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] and [[Scripting language|scripting]].<ref name=macworld>{{cite web| url = http://www.macworld.com/article/132315/2008/03/shiira.html | author= Jason Cranford Teague | title= Shiira Project Shiira 2.2 | date= March 4, 2008| publisher = Macworld | access-date = April 25, 2011}}</ref> The project reached version 2.3 before it was discontinued, and by December 2011 the developer's website had been removed.

==Features and performance==
Since the browser was developed with Safari in mind, the main characteristics of the two browsers are similar.<ref name=macworld/> For example, Shiira employs private browsing options so that history and cookies are not recorded when activated. However, the [[Web search engine|search engines]] search field on the toolbar includes many search engines. Shiira also uses Cocoa programming to provide users with a customizable drawer extending from the left or right of the window. The drawer includes bookmarks, history, downloads, and an [[RSS]] reader. In version 2.0, the sidebar was replaced by a series of palettes opened and closed from the main window toolbar. Shiira natively supports in-browser PDF viewing.

==Style==
The features of Shiira included appearance options. Users could switch between [[Software:Aqua (user interface)|Aqua]] or Metal styles in addition to changing the buttons' appearances. However, in the 2.0 release, changes in themes were not available. Tabs were also customizable. Another option was "Tab Exposé", which acted much like the [[Software:Mission Control (macOS)|Exposé]] feature of Mac OS X; each tab was visible in its totality, enabling users to select the tab to which they wished to navigate.<ref name=macworld/>  The 1.x releases of Shiira also had a page-turning effect for transitions between any two webpages; however, this was dropped from 2.x releases. The interface in Shiira 2.0 could be set to display tabs as thumbnails along the bottom or sides of the window.<ref name=lowendmac/>

==Versions==
The latest release (version 2.3) requires [[Software:Mac OS X Tiger|Mac OS X 10.4]] or later. Shiira 2.3 has not been tested on the latest versions of the OS, and has been reported to be [[Software bug|buggy]] on [[Software:Mac OS X Leopard|Mac OS X 10.5]] and [[Software:Mac OS X Snow Leopard|10.6]].<ref name=lowendmac>{{cite web| url =http://lowendmac.com/misc/10mr/shiira-2.3-review.html| author= Charles Moore| title= Shiira Browser Is Lightning Fast| date= March 8, 2010| publisher = Low End Mac| access-date= April 25, 2011}}</ref> The final release for [[Software:Mac OS X Panther|Mac OS X 10.3]] was 1.2.2.

==See also==
* [[Software:List of web browsers|List of web browsers]]
* [[Software:Comparison of web browsers|Comparison of web browsers]]
* [[Comparison of feed aggregators]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons|Shiira}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070108224343/http://shiira.jp/ Shiira Project]
*[http://osdn.jp/projects/shiira/ Shiira Project Top Page - OSDN.JP]

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