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Given this week’s focus on the new release candidate (RC1) version of Internet Explorer 8, you’d be forgiven for missing the unveiling of Web Visions Black Label, a brand new browsing alternative offered up by Bulgarian software company Creative Lines Group.
Okay, the browser is ready. Where\'s Internet Explorer? Image: nukeit1/Flickr.
While it may sound like a super-strength canned European lager, the creators of Web Visions Black Label (a.k.a. The European Web Browser) have claimed their browser is being aimed directly at the global Internet market and will go toe-to-toe with market leaders Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox.
Built with simplicity as its core point of appeal for a consumer demographic Creative Lines claims are often left scratching their heads at the complexity of other browsing platforms, Web Vision Black Label only offers two basic menu options through “File” and “Help”.
“The functions of the browser are limited on the consumer level because the mass consumer doesn’t understand what all the settings in the other browsers are for,” revealed Creative Lines Group CEO Atanas Avkov in a Pari Daily report. “Our idea about creating this new browser was to make things easier for the users.”
Described as packing “speed, security and style” developed through Microsoft Visual Basic Express, Avkov went on to say that the platform’s minimalist structure will see Web Visions’ stability and optimisation translated into operating speeds twice that of Internet Explorer and Firefox, while putting three times less workload on system processes.
Available for download without charge in either English or Bulgarian – and compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista – Web Visions Black Label has been created without pushing any form of commercial agenda, according to Avkov.
Creative Lines Group is expecting to draw its profits from advertising banners on the browser’s official site and through five other owned Web sites. Less than 24 hours after its official release, fewer than 1,000 people have downloaded Web Visions Black Label. While the browser could certainly blossom, it’s highly unlikely that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Google’s Chrome browsers are currently scurrying for cover.
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