Shiira v2 beta is *hot*
There’s nothing like having some nice, yet useful eyecandy on the mac (good ol’ quicksilver comes to mind). Well, the folks behind Shiira are taking on the big boys and out-safari-ing safari. The new Shiira beta (now Universal!) has some nice features, including the Shelf, tab expose (beautiful!) and transparent history and bookmark popups (which I like better than having them in a sidebar). What I really dig about shiira though is the Page Dock - a thumbnail image of all your current tabs at the bottom of the browser so you can see from afar what’s in each. Superb! I know some of these features might exist as plugins (or soon to be features) in Firefox (at least), but Shiira has one more thing going for it - it’s blazing fast! Currently, this beta is Tiger-only (sorry, you 10.3 folks) and is well worth the download. I am definitely going to keep track of this one as the work they are doing, especially interface-wise, is outstanding. Keep up the excellent work, Shiira team!