Greg's Browser 2.6.1
Posted: January 13th, 2000, 11:00 am
Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/gui/gregs-browser-261.hqx
Greg's Browser 2.6.1 (January 10, 2000)
by Greg Landweber, coauthor of Kaleidoscope
Shareware Fee: $20
Winner of a MacUser Shareware Award for Best Utility, Greg's Browser
is a file management utility that lets you quickly and easily
navigate your way through the files on your hard disk, giving a
compact multi-pane view of your folder hierarchy. Greg's Browser was
originally based on the NeXT OS directory browser, and Apple's latest
demos show that the Mac OS X Finder will include a multiple folder
view similar to the Browser.
Version 2.6.1 is a maintenance release, with over a dozen minor
improvements and bug fixes. In particular, it fixes an erroneous
alert that appears when moving files to the trash and a beep when
emptying the trash.
It also fixes a crash when launching the browser if StuffIt
SpaceSaver is running. On the improvement side, the text
anti-aliasing code is completely rewritten, borrowing heavily from
SmoothType. Anti-aliased text now looks better, draws faster, and
requires less memory. You can also set the font size to anything from
9 to 16 point, since anti-aliased text often looks best at odd font
sizes. Finally, when browsing URL clippings, the Browser now displays
the URL at the bottom of the window.
Greg's Browser 2.6.1 (January 10, 2000)
by Greg Landweber, coauthor of Kaleidoscope
Shareware Fee: $20
Winner of a MacUser Shareware Award for Best Utility, Greg's Browser
is a file management utility that lets you quickly and easily
navigate your way through the files on your hard disk, giving a
compact multi-pane view of your folder hierarchy. Greg's Browser was
originally based on the NeXT OS directory browser, and Apple's latest
demos show that the Mac OS X Finder will include a multiple folder
view similar to the Browser.
Version 2.6.1 is a maintenance release, with over a dozen minor
improvements and bug fixes. In particular, it fixes an erroneous
alert that appears when moving files to the trash and a beep when
emptying the trash.
It also fixes a crash when launching the browser if StuffIt
SpaceSaver is running. On the improvement side, the text
anti-aliasing code is completely rewritten, borrowing heavily from
SmoothType. Anti-aliased text now looks better, draws faster, and
requires less memory. You can also set the font size to anything from
9 to 16 point, since anti-aliased text often looks best at odd font
sizes. Finally, when browsing URL clippings, the Browser now displays
the URL at the bottom of the window.