BugBrowser

Free Japanese browser by EG6+ built on the Internet Explorer component, with a Windows Explorer-style interface: L-shaped tabs (pages on top; documents, favorites, trash and history in a floating tree on the left), link extraction to download managers, random proxy rotation and a scriptable COM automation server (VBScript, JScript, .NET).

Facts

Developer

EG6+ (independent developer)

Website

web.archive.org

Engine

Trident

Platforms

Windows

Details

Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000, then 2000/XP; v0.78 beta (June 2000) to 5.7.2 (Apr. 30, 2007); successor B6X announced in 2009

Popularity

42/100 — Estimate: “one of the most widely used tabbed browsers” according to ja.wikipedia, covered by 窓の杜 from 2000 to 2001; ≈50k users at peak

Key versions

1. June 13, 2000
   0.78 betaTridentIE-based browser styled like Windows Explorer, with open pages and favorites in a tree.[1]
2. June 9, 2001
   1.81Version 1.81: closed pages recoverable and multi-engine search bar.[2]
3. Apr. 30, 2007
   5.7.2Last version; development halted for lack of a development environment.[3]

Version sources: [1] forest.watch.impress.co.jp, [2] forest.watch.impress.co.jp, [3] BugBrowser (Wikipedia ja)

Sources

1. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/BugBrowser
2. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2000/06/13/bugbrowser.html
3. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2001/06/19/webbrowser.html
4. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/タブブラウザ