We here at Aviary are always excited to let the public in on some of the new features we're growing in the incubator here. You've already met Phoenix, the browser-based image editor, Peacock, our visual effects lab, and we've begun introducing new programs like Raven, the browser-based vector editor, and Toucan, the browser-based Color Swatch editor. Working tirelessly to bring you even more browser-based applications, one of the newer applications we're excited to finally release on Thanksgiving is Aviary's Turkey, the browser-based web browser.
Simply open up your internet browser of choice, go to Aviary, then press the Turkey launch button to open up your internet browser right there in your browser!
At Aviary, we're always looking to break new ground and shatter what the world's preconceived notions of what can be accomplished online. And we believe we're doing just that with Turkey, the Internet's first browser-based web browser.
And with popular features now necessary in web browsing such as tabbed browsing, surfing your favorite web pages has never been easier or more efficient!
With Aviary's Turkey, anyone with a browser and an internet connection can now browse the internet.
Just one of the wonderful things we're working on, here at Aviary!
Editor's Note: This was actually an April Fool's joke concept that made the cutting room floor originally, but looking back on it we laughed and had to share it, so why not around Thanksgiving? For early access to the more useful (and real) Aviary tools, head on over to the Aviary main site.
Edit: April 1st is actually celebrated during Thanksgiving in Canada, so this is a perfectly acceptable blog post, thank you very much.
Subscribe to Aviary Blogs
RSS
EmailComments
Posted by Avi Muchnick on 2008-11-25 21:53:22
I can't believe there's an actual use for something like this. Of course now that you mention a proxy browser that kind of utility makes sense. That's pretty funny.
Posted by Groggie on 2008-11-25 22:18:39
I can see myself getting stuck in an infinity loop with something like this.
Posted by Me on 2008-11-25 22:31:33
Are you kidding me? "Surf the web while you surf the web" ? Maybe I'm missing something. Why can't I just use my Firefox and download a few of the hundreds of Add-ons?
Posted by Exaspera on 2008-11-26 00:42:22
Now I am really confused. It really doesn't take much, either. :D
Posted by Exaspera on 2008-11-26 00:42:58
Now I am really confused. It really doesn't take much to do that, either. :D
Posted by Harry on 2008-11-26 01:28:00
Why stop there? Why not a browser-based computer? You can do everything from install applications to putting it into sleep mode. I know it's technically possible to write a Flex app that can replace all the functionality of a computer. Or maybe you need AIR for that.
Posted by doomed on 2008-11-26 05:47:29
Oh this hurts my head so much! First I clicked on the turkey and thought it was an early release but then ended up back on some graphics page (aviary?). Then I felt like a turkey for falling for a wierd joke, but I saw some post about other browser-based browsers which conceivably as a proxy would be quite useful. Of course I finally felt like I had broken the browser and wanted to ask when the new version would come out to see if it would let me go somewhere besides aviary. So I looked saw the fine print after disregarding a post about this being an April fool's joke and realized that this was indeed an April fool's joke. I was relieved from having to post about how much apprehension I had over having to wait until tomorrow for the final release and public debut for which would most undoubtedly become the world's third most popular browser (or second). At least I can now feel better about spending that extra time reading the whole thing which explained about this being a joke, but now I'm somewhat disappointed after all of that excitement and feel it necessary to perhaps try to solicit a project for a new turkey on Monday. I suppose such things only happen once in a blue moon though and mine isn't coming anytime soon.
Posted by doomed on 2008-11-26 05:55:15
Oh, wait... I noticed the address bar reads, "vulture"-something. Maybe I got it wrong? Well maybe we'll see after turkey leftovers if there will be a browser. Since Phoenix is already taken, I suppose vulture is the logical choice. After my turkey, the leftovers getting picked on by any vulture may be mine.
Posted by brad czerniak on 2008-11-26 08:06:48
such a browser would be useful if you could take things like cookies and add-ons to every machine you use.
Posted by Blake Gripling on 2008-11-26 08:32:58
Silly it may seem (since it would be redundant if you're using a web browser on a web browser), but it may also help if you're concerned about tracking cookies and stuff...
Posted by diogenese19348 on 2008-11-26 09:16:37
makes perfect sense to me in my currently addled state of mind, but i am still trying to perfect virtual memory from a virtual disc
Posted by innocent_bystander on 2008-11-26 09:52:25
There's an actual browser-based web browser from iCloud.
Posted by astrojr1 on 2008-11-26 12:40:43
How about "Buzzard", web-based garbage collection and memory management. Or "Parrot", speech recognition package? Or "Ostrich",an enterprise license pack? Or "Eagle", for government and federal-level security? Or "Falcon", a performance package? Or "Bower", for a bunch of pretty skins? It's definitely a fertile ground for hatching other ideas.
Posted by flavia on 2008-11-26 13:51:49
haha!!! my aviary picture is in there!! cool! =D this made me laugh =)
Posted by whatttt on 2008-11-26 17:11:45
YO DAWG WE HERD YOU LIKE TO BROWSE THE INTERNET SO WE PUT A BROWSER IN YOUR BROWSER SO YOU CAN BROWSE WHILE YOU BROWSE
Posted by Hypernation on 2008-11-27 02:12:08
HAHAH I love just how many people didn't get the joke. I also love how many people are so bad at irony that it appears they didn't get the joke even when they did. So when's this launching anyway? Hello?
Posted by Reavenk on 2008-11-27 16:20:19
So could an instance of Internet Exploere run Turkey, which in itself is running another instance of Turkey, which is also running Turkey?
Posted by Efreak on 2008-11-30 21:04:12
|Posted by brad czerniak on 2008-11-26 08:06:48
|
|such a browser would be useful if you could take things like cookies and add-ons to every |machine you use.
You can--it's called a portable web browser; everything is stored on your flash drive (or in my case, the school's network drive)
Posted by ????? on 2008-12-04 04:22:43
I just wonder what is the point of having two browsers one inside the other . does any value to one's experience online or better search results...
Posted by Noah on 2008-12-11 15:59:04
This would make for a good proxy for getting around censorship and other things.
Posted by Nick on 2009-03-28 21:24:44
There is quite a few online browsers already. NOT including proxy browsers...
Posted by ????? ??? on 2009-04-18 11:20:59
But i don't see why you should use two browsers at a time ?????????
Posted by Person on 2009-09-21 16:36:16
It is depressing to get this as a first link on "Web-based web browser" in google. I could really use this (SERIOUSLY) so that I could tab-browse. Not being the admin for the computer means I can't update from pre-tabbing IE.
Posted by Queuing System on 2009-12-07 22:04:05
You can--it's called a portable web browser; everything is stored on your flash drive (or in my case, the school's network drive)
Posted by Abercrombie Womens on 2009-12-31 03:28:33
Greetings and welcome... So when will be be able to use or buy Aviary?
Posted by panerai watches on 2010-03-07 23:29:00
Very happy I can comment here! Best wishes for this year.
Posted by rolex watches on 2010-03-07 23:31:03
Very happy I can comment here! Whoa! I am looking forward for the next updates of your awesome worship. It would be great if you have other great things just like this. I really love it. Thanks!
Try Out Aviary»
Aviary is a powerful suite of browser-based design tools for people who create. Head on over to the Aviary homepage to try the applications out and learn more. It's free to try our tools or sign up!
Posted by Silus Grok on 2008-11-25 21:05:48
Um … sorry folks … way back in 2001 there was Orangatango's VirtualBrowser which was a browser-in-browser client. So that's at least one browser-based browser that predates y'all.