Showing posts with label Safari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Safari. Show all posts
Review : Skyfire - my new favorite iPhone web browser
What took me so long to discover this gem?? Well, suffice to say, I was actually a bit sceptical at first to switch from the in-built Safari browser and the Opera browser. Safari was still preferred at first due to its nativity to the iPhone. It ran at blazing speed. Of course when i visit any sites that have tonnes of Flash video content (especially those that ran predominantly Flash videos), Safari just simply does not work. At least not until all website decide to adopt the HTML5 format, then we will see richer content on our iPhone Safari.
My use of Opera was because back in the good old days when I was using a Nokia phone, Opera was the best browser available compared their Nokia's pathetic browser. I use it still purely because of sentimental sentiments. Also, it is good to see some Flash (static-ized) adverts here and there on some website that makes the site looks a little more complete and not handicapped. Of course, Opera also offers a very intuitive tab system that lets you switch between pages easily (unlike Safari, which is quite cumbersome).
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Appstore,
Flash Video,
iPhone,
iTunes,
Opera,
Safari,
Skyfire,
Web Browser
Opera Mini Browser for iPhone
Opera has finally released their Opera Mini Browser for iPhone. Although the last time I checked on my US iTunes account, it stills says it is not available yet for the U.S of A.
First look of this browser looks very much like any other browser. The tab browsing was very effective and unlike iPhone's Safari, you can load a page on one tab while you browse on another tab. Another thing I notice was that any Flash on a website will be presented as a static image of the Flash! This leaves me to think, Opera actually captures the image of the Flash and presents it on the browser. This ought to be a good thing for us iPhone users. No more xxx in place of the unsupported Flash.
Javascript does not seem to work so well though. I could not "mouseover" a drop down menu to show the menus. Still, I will be using this browser more extensively now because of the background loading of tabs. That alone is kick ass and warrant enough for me to switch to Opera. Now if I can find a tool or someway to import my bookmarks from Safari, that will be awesome...
Go get your Opera! (iTunes Link)
First look of this browser looks very much like any other browser. The tab browsing was very effective and unlike iPhone's Safari, you can load a page on one tab while you browse on another tab. Another thing I notice was that any Flash on a website will be presented as a static image of the Flash! This leaves me to think, Opera actually captures the image of the Flash and presents it on the browser. This ought to be a good thing for us iPhone users. No more xxx in place of the unsupported Flash.
Javascript does not seem to work so well though. I could not "mouseover" a drop down menu to show the menus. Still, I will be using this browser more extensively now because of the background loading of tabs. That alone is kick ass and warrant enough for me to switch to Opera. Now if I can find a tool or someway to import my bookmarks from Safari, that will be awesome...
Go get your Opera! (iTunes Link)
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