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I'm going to check it out but only because I'm jailbroken so I can change the default browser. I hate using two browsers and would be annoyed by having to copy and paste links into a different browser or use Safari for clicking on links in other apps.
Safari 5.2
From the day one, when I purchased mac, i couldnt use to Safari. It was so demn slow, heating problems in youtube, bugs, loging off from websites and he was drinking my nerves in a straw.
Since I was a long year firefox user I instantly switch on him, and it was great till they decided to just pumped up version numbers. Then I switched to Chrome, he was great, light, good integration in full screen mode, almoust perfect but, I couldnt used that he is basicly addon naked. It so pissed me when I didnt had all those addons for pdf, and office support, so when Safari 5.2 came out, I thought lets give him one more shot. And its great, its very fast, love the google search integration in menu, reader option, its snapier, and it has great support for showing pdf and other office addons witch was lack in Chrome for me. Shure, I know that there are addons for it, but I was never quite happy with them.
I did a bit of html test with various browser, and there can see a great improvement in Safari in that area. Last score was 370, firefox was 345, safari 5.1.5 is cca 350. Shure, Chrome is the best with 400, but since I am happy with him in all areas I will continue using him.
Shure its still beta, but works like a charm for me.
From the day one, when I purchased mac, i couldnt use to Safari. It was so demn slow, heating problems in youtube, bugs, loging off from websites and he was drinking my nerves in a straw.
Since I was a long year firefox user I instantly switch on him, and it was great till they decided to just pumped up version numbers. Then I switched to Chrome, he was great, light, good integration in full screen mode, almoust perfect but, I couldnt used that he is basicly addon naked. It so pissed me when I didnt had all those addons for pdf, and office support, so when Safari 5.2 came out, I thought lets give him one more shot. And its great, its very fast, love the google search integration in menu, reader option, its snapier, and it has great support for showing pdf and other office addons witch was lack in Chrome for me. Shure, I know that there are addons for it, but I was never quite happy with them.
I did a bit of html test with various browser, and there can see a great improvement in Safari in that area. Last score was 370, firefox was 345, safari 5.1.5 is cca 350. Shure, Chrome is the best with 400, but since I am happy with him in all areas I will continue using him.
Shure its still beta, but works like a charm for me.
Since the UK government is proposing online access to all communications without judicial review, I just bought Covert Browser, which uses Tor. At least that will slow the government down when they invade my privacy.
1) why people ready to pay 3$ for a web browser? This is only possible in iOS world
2) do you trust a closed source product? You can't view the code, so you are not sure there is no backdoor, trojan or some other logging mechanism.
1) why people ready to pay 3$ for a web browser? This is only possible in iOS world
2) do you trust a closed source product? You can't view the code, so you are not sure there is no backdoor, trojan or some other logging mechanism.
I don't trust anything online, but at least Apple has vetted the app and approved it. I think of my purchase as a political statement of disapproval about the proposed UK legislation. Anybody reading my communications would be bored to tears
, but it is the principle of the thing. As for the price, how much is at least a modicum of privacy worth?3bs, here's my two top favorite browser:
1. Opera Mini, because of it's speed in loading pages (because I'm in Indonesia, and at Indonesia, the Internet speed is pretty horrible) and it's amazingly amazing UI.
2. Safari, because it can load mobile - optimized websites perfectly, which Opera Mini can't do.
Atomic is really ugly. I usually use Dolphin. *Only* for "Desktop" sites. A lot of sites are coded so horribly that they only show some broken "Mobile" pile of crap based on user-agent.
If I could disable the "slide in from the side" features of Dolphin, it would be almost perfect. Far too many times have I found myself opening a side-item when I just wanted to pan around a page.
If I could disable the "slide in from the side" features of Dolphin, it would be almost perfect. Far too many times have I found myself opening a side-item when I just wanted to pan around a page.
Safari, though I use Opera when reading text-heavy websites because of its text rewrap or whatever it's called and single column view.