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IE8 Replacement: SlimBrowser Se7en

2009-10-28
hey whats up guys its Marcus Rama here from mkbhd and welcome to another HTT tutorial and in this video i'll be going over a web browser you may or may not have heard of brand new for windows called slim browser so slim browser as you heard me say before is a brand new web browser for windows that really allows for a very light and as you can tell by the name a very slim web browsing experience now it does happen to be based off of Internet Explorer so I'm going to give you guys a basic rundown of this internet browser first of all you can get this at the link in the description it is build Oh point 3 version 4.1 2 and just gotten a lot of positive reviews from cnet com so I'm definitely going to be showing this to you guys and like I said the link that you can get this at to download right now is in the description so anyway I'm going to open up the browser itself here this is the shortcut on my desktop if I just go ahead and double click it you'll see the speed at which it opens up well first pretty much for a cold boot is the slowest boot then once we maximize you can tell it's gonna have to be pretty much a whole boot is going to be the slowest boot then every time from then on out it's going to be pretty quick but that's the first time I've booted this browser today so if we just go ahead and take a tour around to here you'll notice it is definitely based off of internet explorer like I said however Internet Explorer as we all know is a pretty bad web browser however if we just go ahead and not just a few page loads here such as youtube com and I'm actually signed in because of the auto remember that I've selected I does open really really quickly so I just go ahead and I go to the my subscriptions which actually does tend to take a while it's pretty quick and it works very quickly now if I go back up here to the top you have a tool bar called my search this is a tool bar that is built into the browser and as we can go down here we can search different categories of things so we can search our building calendar we can search news movies sports TV weather etc so if I search TV it'll automatically redirect me to the built in my search TV searching website so it's a very very uh it's a fully functional browser in the first place and it does seem like a watered down version of something like firefox or internet explorer but it does have a lot of features built in that you normally wouldn't expect so back to the YouTube tab you'll also notice you can right click on it on a tab in this second column here and you'll have a number of options for things that you can do with this tab you can close it or you can right click on a tab and duplicate it which is basically opening the exact same tab twice you can also right click on one and hide it lock it to burnet to prevent it from closing you can add it to a group and are basically a favorite you can close all tabs or you can close all but current tab which is actually one of my favorite features also you can add this into whitelist into black list and a number of other things that you would really have to get to use this browser for a while to know the name of and also there's a built-in auto refresh feature now if we look up here on the right-hand side of the browser where the minimum maximum and X buttons usually are you will see some very similar looking buttons that actually perform the same tasks with a different look this is the minimize button this is the maximize button and this is the exit out button so if i press this button right here it'll minimize and exactly this is the restore button as you could say to bring it down to a window and to resize the window so it does have very very similar features with Internet Explorer so the last really unique feature about this web page is the toolbar up here at the other side the top left-hand corner so if we go ahead and hit the file button file edit and view are really very standard features that you'll probably also see in any other web browser favorites are slightly different in this web browser but not really notable if we go to language this is something that's actually quite convenient if you happen to be on a Spanish or a different French website and you speak English you can hit ctrl T and the built-in web browser add-on will just go ahead and translate that page into English for you you can also use babelfish translation or Google translation I think that's a very convenient feature and it's nice that they built that in next is groups it's very similar to favorites however you have a different method of organizing your groups you can save different groups and different types of groups and basically it's very very way of organizing your bookmarks also auto login is directly in the toolbar as well so you can control different ways that you auto login to pages as you saw before I auto logged into Google and YouTube and they work flawlessly tools is in any other YouTube or any other web browser as you can see you can set this as a default browser you can I use your email settings or your so your filters and set all these different internet options and as well as your autofill options as well and tools last but not least there are windows and help which are also quite normal options for any other web browser so as you guys can see it's a very clean very quick web browser it's going to import your bookmarks directly from Internet Explorer so if you have any saved like I said they'll definitely be killer loading times and you'll pretty much have the off the optimal web browser for your pc if you're looking for something lightweight so this has been marques Brownlee from mkbhd and thank you for watching this tutorial on flash peak slim browser I hope you enjoyed and maybe you'll be inspired to check out the browser yourself and that is basically Bennett so thank you for watching this tutorial and I'll catch you guys in the next video peace
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