Donut L21 Browser released: 4/11/04

[Donut L]

http://www.atmark.gr.jp/~s2000/r/index_en.html

Fast and reliable Japanese Browser for English speaking users (eng
characters)
Direct (English) Cab download: (file size: 613 kb)
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/absorb/DonutL21_e.cab

Besides using Opera 7.23, Avant, and Greenbrowser, I also use Donut L
(IE shell) for its super fast downloads and tool-bar functions/buttons
that the other browsers don't have for their toolbars. An extensive
array of *security* buttons can be had for quick on/off measures when
visiting 'questionable' sites. Donut L 21 [eng] was released 4/11/04
over the previous L 18 version and is freeware.

Last night I did some eye-ball testing of download speeds on all four
browsers and Donut L21 seemed fastest of the lot!
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Before using:
Configure 'user customizing' in Toolbar(menu) View>Toolbars>User
Customizing. The toolbars 'meat' and home page button are found in
'user customizing' as out/off needing to be put in.

I suggest tweaking preference tabs as well: (F4) The browser as
'Default' looks almost 'crippled' compared to what it can do once it's
configured. That takes all of five minutes.

Downside:
left/right (previous/forward) side-button mouse clicking doesn't work.
The earlier version had the same problem.

No window cascading, but many see that as a plus.



(File size: 613 kb)
Direct (English) download:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/absorb/DonutL21_e.cab

 

[Donut L]

http://www.atmark.gr.jp/~s2000/r/index_en.html

Fast and reliable Japanese Browser for English speaking users (eng
characters)

Direct (English) Cab download: (file size: 613 kb)
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/absorb/DonutL21_e.cab

The direct download doesn't work in Opera 7.23

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[Bryan Kirk]

I think that its pretty good. Could use a better-looking UI, though...

 

[Sorin Weissner]

I think that its pretty good. Could use a better-looking UI, though...

Another IE skin. Just what we need. Not.

 

[Bryan Kirk]

http://www.sixfiles.com/dbase/files/rapt-donut-l.html

 

[Donut L]

http://www.sixfiles.com/dbase/files/rapt-donut-l.html

Thanks for posting the link! It's much easier to use than foraging
through the authors rather scribbly looking site trying to find the
same file.

I said there was a downside in not being able to use the
previous/forward side buttons of a five-button mouse. You *can*
activate those buttons by going to options (F4) and clicking the RAPT
tab. A check box is left empty saying: "Support back and forward
five-button mouse". That needs to be checked for the side buttons to
work. Hope that helps.

Side note:
I've been using DonutR (another of their shell series) for nearly two
years, as speed-ball-backup when fed up with bloating, and still won't
part with that cascading-window original-- at 335kb:
http://tds.sourceforge.net/

"Update of English" is the download, if interested.

It's old (2001), not an update per se.