Site Specific Browser

Even with the mesmerizing variety of content offered by the information superhighway, your browser history can narrow down to only a few preferred pages. In this case, there’s no point in using a browser that abuses system resources. It’s actually better to narrow down processes to the page of interest with Site Specific Browser.

One major advantage for this application in particular is that it doesn’t need to be installed, so you can use it directly from a USB flash drive on other PCs as well. It doesn’t require any extra services, nor does it tamper with system registries, thus keeping the target computer clean.

As the name might suggest, the application isn’t quite your regular web browser, but it does take you online, and on any page of your choice. In spite of its general simplicity, the first time you run it might leave you scratching your head for a while, because there aren’t any buttons to write down the address you want to access.

However, carefully reading the description unveils the connection method. In other words, the URL field is actually the application name, so you need to rename it to softpedia.com.exe if you want to use it to get here. The same goes with any other website, so this means you end up with a handful of icons on your desktop, one for each page.

There aren’t any navigation buttons, so it’s best to use the application only with pages that don’t involve a lot of navigation, or they’re fitted with their own controls. On the other hand, the Backspace key takes you back one page, while F5 refreshes, and there’s also the context menu you can turn to for more options.

To sum it up, Site Specific Browser might not come with an extensive set of features to begin with, but it does provide a lightweight solution to accessing custom web pages without eating up a lot of resources. Configuration is minimum, since you only need to rename the executable, with the window position kept intact, and decent navigation speed.