What is Sunrise?
Sunrise is the open-source web browser based on WebKit. It has the new features for efficiently using. Freeware.
Features
Sunrise has many featuresAll in One Window
The main window of Sunrise has the browser, bookmarks, downloads, source codes and find bars.
You do not need to look for the hidden panels because the one window has all of them.
You can do following things seamless:
- Dropping the link into bookmarks for registering
- Dropping the bookmark item to the tab for accessing
- Comparing the sourcode of the web pages
- Finding a word from a source code in the same tab
- Finding a word from a web page in the same tab
- The downloads items show as icon
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Thumbnailed Bookmarks
Sunrise shows thumbnailed bookmarks in the sidebar.
Dropping the link for registering, Dropping the item to a web page or the tabbar for accessing, Adding the item with the thumbnail image, title, URL and the label color from the toolbar or menu, There are various ways.
If you have a lot of bookmark items, you can show it as list. The Icons and List is the same operativeness.
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Snapshot a web page
You can snapshot a web page. This function produces the image with the file type and the size that you specified.
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The Scrollable Tabbar
When a lot of tabs are opened, you can show hidden tabs by scrolling. This doesn't change the user experience of the tabbar.
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Source code at Every Tab
The source code viewer and the tab make a pair. And you can open the source code with other application.
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Downloads
The download item shows as icon of circle progress indicator. You do not need to scroll a long list.
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URL Field × Search Field
The URL field changes to three ways.
It switches to the URL field when typing the URL,
and switches to the search field when typing the search words,
and switches to the downloader when holding the option-key.
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Encoding Pop-up
You can change the text encoding from the toolbar if you cannot read the page because of the garbling.
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Simple Localizing
The localizer needed the development tools because of translating so far. The works for localizing of Sunrise is very simple. You input some words using the localization editor. And restart Sunrise. The localization is completed.
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Simple Preferences
The user needs to look for the item when the preferences has many tabs. You can change the settings quickly, because the preferences of Sunrise is simple.
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The hidden shortcut keys
Shift + Command + B : Toggle show/hide all bars and sidebar in a window.
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Building
Sunrise is open-source software. You can get the source code of the latest version from this site. Build the downloaded project using the latest version of the Xcode tools. The license of the source code is new BSD license.Download the source code
Download Xcode
http://developer.apple.com/
About BSD licenses
BSD licenses - Wikipedia
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Localizing
If you are bilingual, you can localize it in simple ways.
- Select "Localize..." in Help menu.
- Select the language from "Language" pop-up button.
- Translate each word phrase to the right side.
- Push the "Create..." button, and restart Sunrise.
* Set Language at "Language & Text" in System Preferences to the translated language.
- Select "Localize..." in Help menu.
- Push the "Open..." button in the left bottom, select the translated .strings file.
Commit to the project :
The sent file will be applied in the next release of Sunrise. The translated .strings file exists at "~/Library/Application Support/Sunrise/Localizations/".
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Report Bugs
You can send the report of bugs in Sunrise. Then, you do not need to write the processor type and the versions of Mac and Sunrise. These information is automatically acquired.
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Donating
Sunrise are developing with your donations. And it will be used for improvement in quality. -
Feedback
You can send your feedback of Sunrise from "Provide Feedback" in the application menu.
Moreover, please report when you discover strange English on the application and this site.
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- System Requirements : Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard 10.6



