Grail browser

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Grail was a vintage web browser that ran on Desktop devices, it ran on Unix-like operating systems. It was developed for about 4 years before being discontinued.

Grail is an extensible Internet browser written entirely in the interpreted object-oriented programming language Python. It runs on Unix, and, to some extent, on Windows and Macintosh. Grail is easily extended to support new protocols or file formats. Grail is distributed in source form, free of charge, and without warranties. It requires recent versions of Python and Tcl/Tk to run.

— Grail developers

About Grail

Browser URL grail.sourceforge.net
Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1995
Started August 1995
Discontinued 1999
The "preview" release of version 0.6 was released - the final version
Operating System Unix-like
Device platform Desktop
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_(web_browser)
Official Launch Announcement
1996-05-30
 Grail - The Browser For The Rest Of Us

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