However it is more than that. Firefox used to be fast. Opera once blitzed almost every other mainstream browser. Google Chrome was brilliant for a while, and recently I switched to Chromium to get away from some of the annoyances that Mr Google imposes on us.
Opera is still fast and nice but has serious limitations in a Linux Environment. Quite simply it cannot cope with the demands of something more powerful and versatile than poor old Windows.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel though. One of my annoyances with Google Chrome that has been inherited by Chromium is the lack of customization. And of course one of the reasons may of us 'old timers' still love Linux and particularly Ubuntu is that we can customise 'stuff'. We can make most things look and work almost exactly as we want to.
I save a lot of pages from the web. Pages I have created for people that I want to experiment on in a live situation. And in most browsers I can simply go to File > Save Page As and save the page with its various 'bits' to a folder. Now, it is easy enough to do this with a keyboard shortcut, but I'm an old man and I use so many keyboard shortcuts that sometimes it is easier to click the File menu and choose Save As than to remember the shortcut.
But Google Chrome no longer makes that available. I can find it by opening the file dropdown and looking under More Tools. And there I can see the shortcut. But right next to the shortcut is the menu item anyway, so I can click that. However it is not somewhere easy to find.
So I discovered Flashpeak Slimjet. Now, Slimjet is built on Chromium. But unlike Chromium it allows customization. So I can have just about anything just about anywhere I want it.
Slimjet (http://www.slimjet.com/en/) claims to be the "Fastest web browser for Windows & Linux Powered by Blink engine". But it doesn't stop there.
Let's have a look at the features offered by this browser.
Efficient Ad BlockerKill Annoying Ads with Ad Blocker
internet download managerTurbocharged Download Manager
Fed up with all the annoying ads? Kill them all with the built-in ad blocker. Boost the performance of your browser by saving memory, CPU and bandwidth consumed by the ads. Boost file download speeds by up to 12 times by making multiple parallel connections to the server. Also allows you to resume download jobs between different sessions.
form filler and password managerQuickFill Intelligent Form Filler
Fast Download ManagerFully-customizable Toolbar
Smarter and more convenient than the basic password manager in Chrome. Save page link and login data in a form file which lets you open your favorite online account with a single click later on. Slimjet let users customize the toolbar and add/remove additional buttons to quickly access more features and functionalities.
In-Browser Facebook IntegrationConvenient Facebook Integration
download videoYoutube Video Downloader
In Slimjet, you can share the link you visited, a paragraph of text or an image easily on facebook with a single click on the facebook toolbar button. Download any youtube videos to local hard disk in various resolution and format for offline viewing. You can also extract mp3 file from the downloaded video file.
fast photo uploadingPhoto Enhancement & Photo Framing
photo shrinkingInstant Photo Upload
Slimjet includes a Photo Salon in which you can apply different effects or add beautiful frames to the photos before they are uploaded. Automatically compress photos to web-optimized resolution so that photos are uploaded up to 20 times faster.
Integrated Weather ForecastWeather Condition & Weather Forecast
url aliasURL Alias Support in Omnibox
Display currrent weather condition and weather forecast directly on the browser window. Slimjet lets you define short aliases for long URLs which are slow to type and hard to remember. After that, just type the aliases from the omnibox to open the corresponding page.
browser extensionExtensive Support for Plugins and Themes
quick-dial new tab pageCustomizable New Tab Page
Slimjet is compatible with most plugins and extenions designed for Chrome, such as Adblock Plus, RoboForm, LastPass, Avast Online Security, etc. It is also compatible with all the chrome themes. You can customize the number of quick-dial buttons and the background image. Multiple search engines and voice input are supported on the search box in the New Tab page.
Built-in Web Page TranslationFlexible Web Page Translation
options and settingsFlexible Options and Settings
Instead of automatically translating a full web page into the current UI language, Slimjet lets you translate a web page or a piece of text between any two specified languages. Slimjet provides many additional options and settings so that you can customize the browser to best suit your personal preference instead of being forced to take everything as it is without any choice.
I must admit that I have replaced Slimjet's speed dial with FVD 3D Speed Dial, and I will write about that another time, But it is simply because I like the curved screen look of FVD 3D. On the other hand, I do use the YouTube download part extensively and I can also vouch for the ridiculously fast download manager.
There are many more features and options that can be used in Slimjet, but I don't know how much it can be loaded up without slowing it down. For now though I find it lives up to its promise of speed and flexibility perfectly. Chrome keyboard shortcuts work of course and I had no problem importing bookmarks and stuff from both Chrome and Firefox.
More Features and Options:
Auto refresh web page
Auto refresh one or more web pages based on a preset period.
Enhanced autofill from predefined identity information
Added support of login id and preferred password to the autofill feature available in Chrome.
Bookmarks side panel
Get quick access to more bookmark links and folders with the bookmarks side panel.
Quickly switch search engine
A drop down button is available at the right end of the omnibox which allows users to quickly switch between different search engines.
Save webpage screenshot
Save screenshot of the entire page or selected region as an image file.
Flexible Tab Behavior Control
Options to control automatic tab activation, automatic tab creation, tab insertion order and more.
Stop all gif animations
A simple switch can be flipped to stop all gif animations (most of them annoying ads) from playing.
Allow mixed-mode http/https content
Option to allow mixed http/https content to run properly.
Option to disable desktop notification
A simple switch to quickly disable all desktop notifications that many users find annoying in Chrome.
Upload clipboard image
Upload image stored in clipboard quickly without having to manually saving it to a file first.
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