KIKI

Free Japanese browser by ogi on the Internet Explorer component, organized as a tree: each opened link becomes a child “node” of the page it came from and can inherit its security settings, with optional tabbed display, “Direct Request” search, mouse gestures, pop-up blocking and a feed reader.

Facts

Developer

ogi (independent developer)

Website

web.archive.org

Engine

Trident

Platforms

Windows

Details

Windows 98 to Vista; v0.16 (Nov. 26, 2001), tabs in v0.68 (2004), 1.0.0 (2006), 1.4.8 (Jan. 30, 2010); a successor, Fernie, only had evaluation versions (2007)

Popularity

35/100 — Estimate: freeware maintained for nine years, ≈10k users

Key versions

1. Nov. 26, 2001
   0.16TridentDistribution begins of an IE-based browser that organizes open pages in a tree.[1]
2. Aug. 30, 2004
   0.68Tab display added.[1]
3. Mar. 17, 2006
   1.0.0Version 1.0.0.[1]
4. Sept. 27, 2008
   1.2.0Major update.[1]
5. Dec. 6, 2008
   1.3.0Feed reader (requires IE7 or later).[1]
6. Jan. 30, 2010
   1.4.8Last version.[2]

Version sources: [1] KIKI (ウェブブラウザ) (Wikipedia ja), [2] din.or.jp (archive.org)

Sources

1. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIKI_(ウェブブラウザ)
2. https://web.archive.org/web/2010/http://www.din.or.jp/~blmzf/