History
Sleipnir was originally developed by Yasuyuki Kashiwagi. In November 2004, the computer containing Sleipnir's source code was stolen. In 2005, Kashiwagi established Fenrir & Co. to start development of a new version of Sleipnir. Starting with version 2, the new versions are not compatible with the original.
As of 2006 Sleipnir had 6.0% of the market share in Japan. Fenrir has released Sleipnir 3.X as an alpha version, with plans to release other language versions.
The latest stable version, 4.0, was released on March 26, 2013.
Sleipnir was one of twelve browsers offered through a ballot to EU users of Microsoft Windows. It wasn't present in May 2011.
Sleipnir was included in a browser ballot screen on the EU edition of Windows 7 (not in May 2011) (and XP and Vista with an update), so EU users of Windows 7 may choose between Internet Explorer and other browsers during the installation process.
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