Dolphin3D Web Browser Facts and Features
(last updated 08-23-09)

  • Dolphin3D is a full-featured Internet Explorer-compatible tabbed web browser

  • Dolphin3D is freeware (the free version is the full version)  How and why do we offer this software for free?

  • Dolphin3D contains no adware or spyware  You can read our privacy policy here.

  • Dolphin3D currently runs under Windows XP (Service Pack 2 and higher), Windows Vista, and Windows 7 ** 

  • Dolphin's 3D layers allow opening and organizing multiple sets of tabs on each of its 3 separate layers. Each layer is easily accessible via tab-like layer buttons on the left margin of the web browser window as seen in this screenshot. You can watch a quick-start training video that shows use of the 3D layers in this video on our YouTube channel.

  • Dolphin3D users can submit and vote on new features they'd like to see included in future versions in the Dolphin3D Community  Forum.

  • Dolphin3D incorporates a built-in bug submission and feedback form to facilitate user input in our continuing quest to improve the Dolphin3D user experience

  • Dolphin's built-in "Power Tools" are accessible via a unique slide-up panel which allows them to be tightly integrated with its web browser and viewed simultaneously with web pages within the same main application window. These Power Tools include the following:

  1. DolphinWP - a basic word processor with many powerful features that accommodates same-window drag-and-drop of text and images directly from web pages - as well as simultaneous split-pane web content viewing and note taking, for example

  2. Picture Tool - an integrated image editor and manager (including multiple utilities for extracting or capturing pictures from web pages)

  3. Media Player - a fully functional integrated media player smoothly embedded into the browser's skin which encapsulates the latest versions of Windows Media Player (versions 10 and 11) and allows independent playing and viewing of music and video files from the user's local disk or web URL without interrupting the user's continued web browsing activity.  Windows Media playlists are also viewable and manageable from inside Dolphin's interface while the media player is "docked".

  4. QuickGroups - Dolphin's searchable favorites system excels at launching multiple groups of favorite web pages simultaneously.  QuickGroups are also searchable.  When a user searches their QuickGroups a results page is produced that allows quick selection and launching of any or all pages included in the search results

  5. News Reader - a basic RSS newsfeed reader that allows story filtering and earmarking

  6. InfoCenter - includes a simple monthly calendar and reminder alarm system 

  • Other powerful tools and features built into Dolphin include the following:

    1. Favorite Buttons - Dolphin's unique favorite page-launching buttons can be located anywhere on the browser surface

    2. Ad Blocker - Dolphin includes a powerful built-in ad blocker with whitelisting and one-time show ads/kill ads options

    3. Script Killer - Dolphin lets you instantly launch any web page or new link into Jungle-safe mode where neither scripts nor active content are allowed to run. Currently loaded web pages can be instantly changed to-and-from Jungle-safe mode.

    4. Antifreeze and Session Crash Recovery functions with user-controllable delays

    5. One Click Session Memory button both closes Dolphin and remembers to reload your same open tabs next time you browse

    6. A complete client-side English dictionary invocable through various means, such as double-clicking on a word in web page text

    7. A complete client-side English spell checker capable of spell checking and word replacement in any editable web page text

    8. A basic client-side English thesaurus capable of word replacement in any editable web page text

    9. A powerful word flagger/word alert system (Word Hawk) can monitor every web page loaded for user-defined key words and key word lists

    10. Dolphin's 8 search engine "Search Shelf" facilitates rapid multiple search engine searches on entered search criteria and includes an integrated multi-color find and highlight function for quickly spotting search results on web pages

    11. Automatic creation of web page bibliography citations and automatic final bibliography creation

    12. Dolphin's super-safe "Jungle-safe" browsing mode when used properly can foil all malware attempts by malevolent pages

    13. RealDomain Assistant sniffs out and displays the real domain(s) embedded in links when you hover over any web page element

    14. Multiple inline web search/lookup functions including web search, web image search, web encyclopedia search, web dictionary search, and web map search

    15. Instant web page picture rotation, enlargement, and other enhancements via context (right-click) menu selections

    16. Powerful inline web page picture editing and picture locking actually allows visual user-customization of static pictures on many web pages

    17. Inline web page text markup and html insertion

    18. Feature-rich tab index controls (i.e., the tab panels just above and associated with each web page) with 10 useful features not found on any other web browsers' tab index controls allow powerful user-manipulation of individual tabs and selected groups of tabs

    19. Screen capture utility can capture selected regions of any web page or any area of the Windows desktop in the background

    20. Twain-compliant media-capture utility for picture capture and editing from webcams, digital cameras, etc.

    21. Sizeable screen zooming window can magnify any area on the screen by 200% to 800%

    22. Cookie Manager allows deletion of unwanted cookies while exempting user-defined session-persistence-type cookies

    23. Privacy Cleanup allows highly selective cleanup of all caches and browsing history lists

    24. User-definable one-character address bar and hotkey-anywhere shortcuts allow super-fast launching of web pages and multi-page QuickGroups

    25. Mouse gestures with convenient instant on-off button

    26. 7 different browsing history views plus easy access to user's Internet Explorer history

    27. Easy access to user's Internet Explorer Favorites

    28. Powerful built-in download manager

    29. Hyperpeek Jungle-safe mouseover hyperlink previews are large enough to read, helping to reduce unnecessary navigation

    30. Multi-mode thumbnail views of background tabs

    31. Mouseover thumbnail views for Dolphin history entries

    32. Fast, powerful tab-to-tab, layer-to-layer, and page-position navigation

    33. Built-in mute and volume controls (including on popup windows) allow muting of irritating ads, etc.

    34. Built-in playlist next track, previous track, play/pause, and stop buttons

    35. Flexible popup control options allow absolute popup lockdown as an option

    36. Quick popup catcher on-off button allows one touch switching in and out of "capture all popups into a new tab" mode

    37. User-empowering popup windows with numerous controls and functions not found on other browsers' popup windows

    38. All Dolphin popup windows are user-sizable

    39. Make-it-a-tab button allows instant conversion of most popup windows to tabs on the main browser window

    40. One-touch flashy ad killer on/off button

    41. Numerous Zen Scrolling options allow variable speed scrolling through web pages and include several hyper-speed scroll modes

    42. Undo Banger remembers the last 30 tabs, groups of tabs, Favorite Buttons, or QuickGroup items closed or deleted and allows their instant recovery

    43. Feature-rich web page context menus for hyperlinks, images, selected text, and text input areas provide many powerful functions not found in other web browsers

    44. Time-saving cursor auto-repositioning enables quicker tab-to-tab navigation, quicker closing of multiple side-by-side tabs, and more

    45. Change tab activation direction button allows quick change of the direction tabs are activated when a tab is closed

    46. Numerous keyboard and mouse shortcuts - many standard web browser shortcuts/accelerators are supported as well as a large number of time-saving Dolphin feature activations and fast page and page group launching

    47. Numerous drag-and-drop operations

    48. Multiple reduced screen and clean screen modes

    49. Numerous customizable user preferences
       

  • Some other notable Dolphin features

    1. Unique "organic" water-blue interface

    2. Personalizable animated title bar including user-selected colors, animation styles, and verbiage options

    3. Unique centered navigation buttons (back, forward, home, stop, and refresh) reduce "mouse travel" distance

    4. Function for customizing Favorite Button, QuickGroup, and QuickGroup Page icons with supplied icon set facilitates organization and personalization

    5. Multiple Dolphin user accounts can be set up within the same Windows login

    6. Toolbar-proof by design

    7. (Many individual features found in the Power Tools are not listed on this page)


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