Thief

There are various concerns when browsing the web, but this mostly depends on what you click in your journeys. However, security doesn’t just mean malicious content, and can also refer to privacy. In this regard, Thief comes as a stealthy web browser which takes you over the web through secure proxy servers.

On the bright side of things, the application doesn’t modify registry entries on the target computer, which means you can also deploy it on a USB flash drive in case you want to use it on other PCs. However, you need to make sure that the computer you use it on is fitted with .NET Framework, since it’s a mandatory requirement for functionality.

As far as the visual design is concerned, the application reserves most of the space for the web page you land on, which is a pretty good consideration on the developer’s behalf. All necessary functions, as well as the URL field are found in the upper toolbar. There’s also a search field to help you quickly find queries of interest over the web.

Don’t be fooled by the name, because you don’t steal anything during navigation. What it is meant to suggest is the stealthy way in which you land on pages, and this is accomplished through automatic funneling through secure proxy servers. Sadly, you don’t have any control over the proxy servers used in the process.

The application comes with a few more tools to make navigation more comfortable. There’s a download manager to keep track of things you grab over the web, a quick launch button for the calculator, as well as some specialized tools like a file shredder, or online secure chat system.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Thief comes fitted with quite the variety of extra functions, but emphasis put on basic navigation options leaves much to be desired overall. Staying active on multiple pages at a time is only possible by running multiple instances of the application, while modern content isn’t really a strong point here.