Recommend: iCab Web Browser

strecker

Just thougfht I'd mention: iCab just updated the their safari-alternative (appstore) - it's a really excellent browser! Pages load much faster than on safari - works well w/out wifi/3g (even with one bar on the signal bar you don't fall asleep waiting for pageload)!
It'll also download ANYTHING! AND if your phone's jailbroken you can then transfer files to pc using iphonebrowser or w/ever!
Furthermore, lets you lock screen orientation, switch off image load; multiple tabs etc etc...
Big ThumbsUp!!!!!!

spoongibbon

You should know that it probably isn't faster than Safari, it's based on webkit and so is only as fast as Apple's own API. I'm intrigued by the download thing, where does it store the file and how do you export it to your computer?

cojomo2

strecker wrote: »

Just thougfht I'd mention: iCab just updated the their safari-alternative (appstore) - it's a really excellent browser! Pages load much faster than on safari - works well w/out wifi/3g (even with one bar on the signal bar you don't fall asleep waiting for pageload)!
It'll also download ANYTHING! AND if your phone's jailbroken you can then transfer files to pc using iphonebrowser or w/ever!
Furthermore, lets you lock screen orientation, switch off image load; multiple tabs etc etc...
Big ThumbsUp!!!!!!

Im using my iphone on 3irl. Some sites are blocked by them, and can only be accessed via wifi. Are you suggesting that if i use this browser, no websites will be blocked? I know this is the case for opera mini, but this is not available for iphone...

strecker

As to blocked sites via 3Irl: I'm using it on vodafone with live-access point, and I haven't yet come across a page iCab wouldn't open.

Re. Speed - well, I cannot say why, but it definitely loads pages faster than safari! In fact certain sites I see 'finished loading' for the first time ever on my iphone LOL - i believe they claim data compression.

Downloaded files' location? I'm nowhere near my pc now, but I found them with iphonebrowser on pc in no time - somewhere in media afaik...

strecker

cojomo2 wrote: »

Im using my iphone on 3irl. Some sites are blocked by them, and can only be accessed via wifi. Are you suggesting that if i use this browser, no websites will be blocked? I know this is the case for opera mini, but this is not available for iphone...

Yoy may wanna try the 'unmobile' browser

strecker

spoongibbon wrote: »

You should know that it probably isn't faster than Safari, it's based on webkit and so is only as fast as Apple's own API. I'm intrigued by the download thing, where does it store the file and how do you export it to your computer?

That is what it looks like as a user agent:

Your User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7A341

spoongibbon

I guess what I was trying to say is something like what this article review on another iPhone browser suggests:

'As far as performance goes, FSWB feels a lot like Safari, and it should. It's built on Safari's WebKit engine—as are all other App Store browsers per Apple's denial of competing rendering engines (for now)—so websites look and load just as they do in Safari.'

from this article:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/02/review-full-screen-web-browser-for-iphone.ars

I had a look at it and found it a little buggy, it crashed a few times for me, but the ability to turn off images is a good option, as you say for people stuck on Edge.

strecker

spoongibbon wrote: »

I guess what I was trying to say is something like what this article review on another iPhone browser suggests:

'As far as performance goes, FSWB feels a lot like Safari, and it should. It's built on Safari's WebKit engine—as are all other App Store browsers per Apple's denial of competing rendering engines (for now)—so websites look and load just as they do in Safari.'

from this article:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/02/review-full-screen-web-browser-for-iphone.ars

I had a look at it and found it a little buggy, it crashed a few times for me, but the ability to turn off images is a good option, as you say for people stuck on Edge.

I think that article may be wrong-ish - though I know f*ckall about programming for the iPhone, I do know that e.g. Nokia's s60 browser, Teashark and a numbee of other browsers are built on the very Webkit core that the iPhone's safari is built upon - all those browsers are faster and more usable on slow connections... I may be wrong, but I'd say it's not totally impossible to make safari faster!?!
Whatever... Maybe I'm imagining things. But I haven't used Safari since iCab came along!

strecker

BTW: downloads are in var/mobile/Applications - u gotta open the subfolders to see which one is iCab. There you'll find 'Downloads'! You can then move file to pc via iphonebrowser or the Mac equivalent. (just to experiment I downloaded some s60 and ppc apps, and some video clips...all fine!)

Gryzor

i know i'm gonna kick myself, but how do u return from Fullscreen mode??

Edit: just found the Help....

strecker

Gryzor wrote: »

i know i'm gonna kick myself, but how do u return from Fullscreen mode??

Edit: just found the Help....

Hahaha... I had the same experience LOL