The UIUC MacWarriors have created a nifty new web browser for Mac OS X called TrailBlazer. It’s catch phrase is something like “Making internet history” because the big feature of TrailBlazer is it’s innovative way of keeping track of the visited site history. The user can view a page that has thumbnails of all the sites they visited, with arrows connecting thumbnails to indicate how they got to each page. What’s even COOLER is that the history also stores content history, so within the thumbnails page you can search by web content to find the web site you’re looking for.
I tried out the browser and while it’s missing out on certain features I like (tabbed browsing’s a big one), I can immediately see how their history display could be useful (who always remembers to bookmark?). My beef is that showing all those thumbnails gets pretty slow on my iBook. I’d like an option to show the text-only history list but with the added search-by-content capability.
They’re website includes a somewhat blurry Quicktime movie demo of TrailBlazer.
Yay MacWarriors!
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