Kazehakase (Japanese: ) is a discontinued web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit.

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).

Features

Notable features include:

• Support for RSS as well as its Japanese variants LIRS and HINA-DI

• 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

• (March 2007) of unspecified version

• Review (April 2007) of version 0.4.5