Publisher's Description:
TheWorld Browser is a tiny, fast, yet free, secure and powerful web browser. It features a tabbed interface with multi-threaded frame browser.
TheWorld Browser uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer engine. We currently support Windows 98/me/2000/xp/Vista.
TheWorld Browser 2.0 has a new, powerful multi-threaded window frame, which prevents the browser from freezing. Even if one webpage is unresponsive, the rest will not be affected. In developing TheWorld Browser 2.0, we have rewritten and rebuilt all the codes and modules from version 1.x. The new framework is built to provide you with a richer internet browsing experience.
FEATURES
Multi-threaded frame.
TheWorld Browser version 2.0 is among the first multi-threaded frame browser in the world (the first is Internet Explorer 7.0), the multi-threaded window frame can prevent the web pages from freezing.
Intelligent Ad blocking + Blacklist filter.
TheWorld can block popups and float ads automatically. You can also use a blacklist to filter ads. The blacklist filter works from lower level of HTTP protocol, with regular expression so that you can filter out anything you want.
Web page mute.
TheWorld is the first browser that can disable a web page's sound with one click.
Powerful Tools
Powerful Tools Built in tools like: Flash filter, unlock page script limited, zoom, Proxy quick switching, Auto complete, Quick media saver, Privacy guard, Mouse gestures, Custom hotkeys and Drag & drop support, make TheWorld one of the most powerful browsers around.
Safer.
TheWorld Browser has built-in safe guards that will protect you while surfing.
Built-in Download Manager.
Which consists of multi-thread download, resumable download, with intuitive download management.
Skins and plugins.
TheWorld Browser supports skins and plugins, we have hundreds of skins and plugins to customize the way you browse. TheWorld has native support for Internet Explorer's plugins as well.
Changelog for this release:
New in v3.0
TheWorld 3.0 has been improved and optimized a lot in memory release. Especially under multi-process mode and mixed mode, pages are disposed in different processes. With features of multiple processes, procedures quit when web pages get closed and resources occupied by web pages will be released completely. Consequently, the problem that memory usage rises can be resolved drastically.
New in v2.4.1.5
# Fixed a URL fishing vulnerability in IE6.
# Fixed a crash in Windows 98. Recommended updates.