Thread: iPad A1 Perfect Web Browser
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Old 06-05-2010, 09:42 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by scottjl View Post
Just a quick review for anyone who was curious about this browser that has flown to the top of the App store charts. Both iCab and Atomic are far better replacements for Safari than this browser, save your money.

Really don't understand why this $3 browser has risen so quickly, feature wise both iCab and Atomic have it beat. It does not offer bookmark imports (essential to me), any sort of download ability (a great feature of iCab), or any significant speed in rendering over any other browser.

It does have, user agent switching (Atomic & iCab do this as well), full-screen browsing (Atomic & iCab), "real" tabs (Atomic & iCab), "private" browsing (Atomic & iCab). It does offer a "hyper scroll bar" that lets you scroll quickly up and down a page, very quickly. It has one-button in-page search (easily added as a bookmarklet to any browser). And a quick way to hide the tab bar. The UI and colors looks very similar to Safari and cannot be changed (Atomic allows you to set one of many color themes).

It's a good replacement for Safari, but both Atomic and iCab have it beat in terms of features and price. Save a buck and buy iCab ($1.99), or save two and buy Atomic ($0.99).
ICab has hyper scroll to just touch 3 fingers to bring up scroll pad and get to bottom of long pages really quick.
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