Sunrise

Sunrise is the open-source web browser that based on WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast. The concept is to add some convenient functions that the other browsers have not equipped yet. It is using the same rendering engine as Safari.

Features

Visual bookmarks

Is the web site in your memory composed with the title, URL and tiny icon? Or is it one image of the site?

Bookmarks of Sunrise arranges the thumbnail images.

Bookmarks and the web page are displayed in the same window at the same time. You can get good access efficiency by this layout.

Layout

You can switch the layout of bookmarks to vertical or horizontal in window.

Color label

There are 9 colors. You can tidy up bookmarks.

Open

There are many opening ways.

Open with double click.
Open in new tab. (Command + Click or Context menu)
Select two or more items and open. (Context menu)
Drop an item into page.
Drop items into tabbar.

Registration

There are many ways for registration.

Select the menu item 'Bookmarks > Add Bookmark...'
Click the toolbar item 'Add Bookmark'.
Drop URL from URL field.
Drop URL from other application.

Update of images

The image will be updated when loading is completed.
If you do not want to update the image of an item, you can lock it.

Snapshot Entire Web Page

You can snapshot and edit/preview entire web page. The image size and file type can be selected. The specification of image size is pixel base or percentage. The supported file type are TIFF, GIF, JPG, PNG.

The image quality and file size can be checked because the snapshot image can be edited before you export it.

Snapshot

Execute from menu item or toolbar item while showing the web page.

Edit and Preview

Range
The 'Only visible portion' check box switches range of snapshot image.
Update
The 'Update' button updates image from current page.
Resize
You can resize the snapshot image by pixel or scale factor. The image will be kept aspect if locked.
Scaling
You can resize the image by scale factor. You need to lock when scaling.
File type
The supported file types are TIFF, GIF, JPG, PNG.
File size
Shows file size of image.

URL Field

Typing the long URL is too hard.
URL of the web site is often forgotten. The URL field of Sunrise works both the URL access and the web search. The most quick way of the access to the site is the web search result or the access history now.

URL access or web search

If the input text doesn't have the URL scheme, it will be searched in web.

List for completion

The URL field shows the list for completion when the input text is included in history or bookmarks. (URL is completion by selecting. Accessing URL by double clicking. )

Registration to bookmarks

You can register URL to bookmarks when dragging and dropping an icon into bookmarks.

Statusbar

Statusbar need not be always visible. It should exist there only when you look at it.

Statusbar shows to the bottom if the mouse keeps over the link 1 sec or more. And when the mouse moves out from the link, it is hidden.

The progress in tab

The loading time of the latest browser is a moment. But the server with a bad response exists. Tabs should report the loading percentage to the user.

The loading percentage of tabs is obvious

The selection of search engines

The web search site is not one. The user should be able to specify a web search engine that a web browser uses.

View source with

The web browser need not necessarily show source code of a web site with own text editor.
The user who views the source code is mostly a web developer, They have another excellent editor. Sunrise opens source with the editor that user specified.

Window fader and auto-resizing

The main window can be transparented and resized automatically.

Fader

You can add the slider that controls alpha value of the main window in toolbar.

Auto-resizing

You can resize the main window quickly from menu in toolbar or View menu. The web pages assume user's screen size. The user had to pull the small knob in lower right of the window for resizing.
Sunrise has the function to resize automatically to a regulated size by one click.