The Internet Explorer - Engined Browsers Competition article
didn't cool down yet, but I think that an individual review of another program
from that family won't harm anyone. Just below the line that granted admission
into my last compared review were a bunch of excellent programs, and one of
them is right here, right now, waiting for its own review.
The subject is called Crazy Browser, also known as AM
Browser recently, and last winter it reached second Beta of its third version.
Being an IE-front end, this program's installation kit is very small, having
0.7MB in size. The setup process can be completed by anyone, so there's nothing
special about that step...next stop, Crazy Browser's interface and features!
What we have here is a tabbed browser with a highly
customizable interface. It would have been nice to have skin support available,
but it's not here, so the way it looks depends on your chosen Windows theme.
The main elements of the interface that can be removed or kept in sight as you
want are seven in number, starting with the six toolbar items and ending with
the status bar. Let's find out more about these toolbars now...
The Standard Buttons toolbar contains mostly items that you
can find inside Internet Explorer, like Go Back/Forward, Favorites, History and
others. The extra functions available here allow you to open new tabs, edit
current page or add external tools.
The Plug-ins bar comes with only two built in tools that
allow you to kill Flash files from the current tab or from all opened pages,
while the Logo Panel helps you close tabs easier.
The rest of the toolbars don't bring anything special, but
they can prove quite useful, since nobody can live well without having an
Address Bar inside its browser, and having your links and search tool one click
away comes very handy.
These are the tools that everyone can see, but usually power
stays in the shadows, and they are the real force of a program, especially a
Web browser.
Crazy Browser has a smart popup blocker and an AD blocker
that do their jobs pretty well. In order to change their settings and much
more, you have to choose the Advanced Options item from the Options
menu. Once you are
there, you get the idea about what's behind Crazy Browser, since I am aware
that the interface won't seem exciting at all to many people.
Before I draw the line, I have to name some of the great
features that can be noticed inside the options area that I talked about above.
You can use mouse gestures, domain completion, erase history items when the
program is closed and more, and I am sure that it's going to be a pleasure for
you to discover them all.
These being said, let's draw the conclusions and heat up the
network interfaces with Crazy Browser!
The Good
Crazy Browser is a fast, reliable and highly customizable
browser. It uses a decent amount of your system's resources and has a lot of
features that you won't find in Internet Explorer and stands side by side with
other IE-based browsers.
The Bad
I think that one of the main drawbacks of this program is
its interface that misses skin support and also looks like IE maybe too much.
Same problem as usual, the support and Help content available are yet to be
seen, and I would love to find out how to use the Translation feature, if it
really works...
The Truth
I've been using this program for a time and I won't stop
now. For FireFox and Opera users, a light and fast browser like this could be
the perfect way to view pages that have problems displaying in their favorite
application. If you hate any other browser than IE or just don't want to try
anything else, get this, you'll feel like home but also you'll get a lot of
power under almost the same hood as before.
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