Clearly, what the world needs now is another web browser. Forget your Safaris, your Firefoxes, your Caminos, your Operas, your OmniWebs, your Flocks (of seagulls or whatever). We’ve seen the future and it’s totally the multi-process barebones glory of Google Chrome, right?
Well, at least one Mac developer, Mesa Dynamics, thinks that’s the case, so they’ve created a multi-process browser for OS X (based on WebKit, naturally). Stainless is about as barebones as you can get in a browser—at 0.1, it lacks a number of the features that you might want, like a download manager, or bookmarks, a history, or keyboard commands for switching back and forth between tabs. But it does have a multi-process framework similar to Chrome’s, where each browser tab is an individual process. That means if one site misbehaves, you can kill it without affecting the rest of your browsing—which you can do with the integrated process manager.
Annnnd…that’s about all Stainless has at the moment. As the developers themselves acknowledge, this is nothing more than a tech demo at the moment. But that tech appears to work, I guess. Good job! Back into the drawer, Stainless!
Apparently it only works in 10.5.x, also. I tried running it in 10.4.11 and it won't run.