FileBrowse is a Universal (PowerPC/Intel) application for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and later (including 10.5 Leopard). You can try it for free for up to 30 days. (The trial version is full-featured.) The download file is only 320 KB in size, so downloading will not take long.

FileBrowse 1.2   Download Now    

New in Version 1.2

• Button symbols are now more consistent with Apple’s symbols. Most notably: triangles instead of arrows for navigation.
• This version is faster and more responsive.
• This version can optionally show icons with a different 3D perspective. By default, FileBrowse shows all 3D icons with a shared perspective, with the vanishing point in the center of the screen (resulting in icons that change visually according to their positions on the screen). This of course differs from Finder icons, which all have their own perspective (because they’re just images). To better match other Mac apps visually, you can now choose to view icons without the shared perspective (by selecting Item Perspective from the View menu).
• The folder icon in the upper-left corner can now also be pulled and dragged, like other icons.
• Command-Left Arrow and Command-Right Arrow can now also be used to Go Back and Forward.
• You can now Shift-select with the arrow keys.
• A right-click or Control-click on an icon will select it with the preview hidden. (Info and commands are still shown, so this works similar to a right-/Control-click showing a contextual menu.)
• Dragging a file/folder icon from the Finder to the FileBrowse (dock) icon will now open a new window (instead of navigating inside the same window).
• Bug fixes, small cosmetic changes and various other small modifications.

New in Version 1.1

• Typing in the search box now instantly filters items, like in iTunes. No need to press Return/Enter. If you do press Return/Enter, all found items are selected and the search box is cleared (which shows the filtered-out items again). Of course you can also press the Escape key or push the small X button to clear the search box. In addition, a special (collapsed) group is shown with the filtered-out items, which can also be clicked to show those items again.
• Multiple screens are now fully supported.
• Window size and position are now remembered between sessions.
• You can now click anywhere on a preview to zoom in/out. (A small change that makes a big difference.)
• Clicking on the current folder’s name (between the path and the open folder icon in the upper-left corner of the page) now does the same as the New Identical Window command from the File menu. It clones the current window, complete with browsing history, the current selection, etc.
• In Leopard, thumbnails and previews can now be generated for more file types (by using Quick Look thumbnail generation). If the Finder can show a thumbnail for a certain file, then so can FileBrowse. (Note that FileBrowse still uses its own thumbnail/preview generation code for most file types, because of better looking results.)
• In Tiger as well as Leopard, selecting a web page (HTML, “.webloc”, “.webarchive”) now shows a (small) preview.
• Dragging an item now shows its icon/thumbnail under the mouse pointer.
• Favorites can now be removed from within FileBrowse. (Previously this had to be done in the Finder.)
• Various other small changes and additions.
• Improved speed. In particular: faster sorting and better multi-threaded thumbnail generation. The most recent (large) previews are now cached.
• Bug fixes. This version is stable. An issue in Leopard where sometimes not all icons/thumbnails would be shown, is resolved. Previews of PDFs with pages that are not all the same size are now correctly handled. Et cetera.

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