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Kazehakase (Japanese: Dr. Wind (風博士, kaze hakase^?) is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines (e.g. GtkHTML, Dillo, w3m).^[1]

The browser is named after the short story "Kazehakase" by the Japanese author Ango Sakaguchi; its literal meaning is "Dr Wind" (a PhD rather than a medical doctor).

Kazehakase is free software, available under the GNU General Public License. It has been available at repositories for Debian^[2] and Ubuntu,^[3] and has been ported to FreeBSD.^[4]

Features

Notable features include:

• Support for RSS as well as its Japanese variants LIRS and HINA-DI^[1]
• Drag-and-drop of browser tabs
• Mouse gestures
• Import of bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, Netscape Browser, Galeon, Konqueror, and w3m; shared bookmarks (with XBEL)
• "Smart Bookmarks" programmable with regular expressions
• Full text search in browser history

References

External links

• Kazehakase project on OSDN
• Review (unspecified date) of version 0.3 (French)
• Review (March 2007) of unspecified version
• Review (April 2007) of version 0.4.5