Gestures weren’t the only place where Sleipnir’s ambitions fell short of its execution. I would’ve appreciated an option in Preferences to switch how these gestures worked. This fits with Sleipnir’s tab-centric design, but still takes a lot of getting used to. To go forward or back in your browsing history, you swipe up, and then to the left or right. Sleipnir also assigns the two-finger horizontal swipe-which every other browser uses to go forward and back-to navigating through its list of open tabs instead. Gestures: Sleipnir supports gestures, if you use a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. (You’ll need to know how those sites handle their search strings, but it’s not too hard to figure out.) Hit the tab key, and you can look up that same term on Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, or any other site you wish to add. Once you type in a search, pressing Return gives you results from the search engine of your choice (which you can specify in the Preferences). Sleipnir’s search box is also impressive, packing maximum usefulness into a clear, easy-to-operate design. Smarter searching soothes the bookmark blues It’s one of Sleipnir’s most useful and well-implemented features. By swiping back and forth, and pinching open and closed, you can switch between various tab groups or pages with one hand, and without ever needing to click. Like Safari 6, the page you’re viewing shrinks into a carousel of open tabs and tab groups. That comes in handy in Sleipnir’s TiledTab view, activated by pinching the main browser window inward (Sleipnir is programmed to work with gestures you can perform on a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad). Bookmarks: You can only use your bookmarks bar when opening a new tab. You can also drag tabs atop one another to group them together. Rolling over each tab with your mouse shows the tab’s name and gives the option to close it.
Opera pioneered that idea, but Sleipnir’s tabs remain constantly visible and strike a nice balance between being large enough to identify but small enough not to intrude on the main browser window. In place of the URL bar, Sleipnir displays a horizontally scrolling array of thumbnailed tabs.
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