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browser alterantive to Safari

aimeeinohio

aimeeinohio

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OK, so I am looking at other browsers for my iPad (which I love love love, btw), but am not sure what to do...My issue it, to post in my class message boards, I have to do it in html, and it's a pain in the butt.:p

I'm looking at Skyfire- does anyone here use it?
Or should I get Firefox? Or atomic?

Help me out, wouldya guys?:D
 
There is no Firefox on iPad. Atomic is a great alternative to Safari. Other people like iCab but personally I've not tried it.
Not used Skyfire either but AFAIK it's only real advantage is in playing Flash video (via a server).
 
ZilogZ80 said:
There is no Firefox on iPad. Atomic is a great alternative to Safari. Other people like iCab but personally I've not tried it.
Not used Skyfire either but AFAIK it's only real advantage is in playing Flash video (via a server).
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Ahh, someone told me I could use furefox on ipad. :)
I'll give atomic a try.:p
 
Atomic Web works great, it allows you to mimic other browsers such as Firefox 3, IE6,7,8 and Safari.
 
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I tried them all, icab is best. Skyfire when I had it was the iphone version only so I can't really compare that, but of all the others icab was far better imo
 
Terra.

It's clean. Tabbed browsing. And allows opening of tabs in the background.

Best of all, it's free.
 
KINetics said:
Terra.

It's clean. Tabbed browsing. And allows opening of tabs in the background.

Best of all, it's free.
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Considering how little the other browsers actually cost and how important a great browser is to the whole iPad experience, "it's free" is a pretty weak argument. That said, Terra is by the same guy(s) who did PDF Expert (which is awesome) so I'll definitely be checking it out! :)
 
I use iCab and Atomic in addition to Safari. The main problem I have is that every 3rd party browser I've tried has bugs that make posting in many forums difficult for me. They've gotten better with updates, but it still happens, and it's really frustrating.
 
zhenya said:
I use iCab and Atomic in addition to Safari. The main problem I have is that every 3rd party browser I've tried has bugs that make posting in many forums difficult for me. They've gotten better with updates, but it still happens, and it's really frustrating.
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Interested to know what problems you are having. I use Atomic pretty much exclusively and post to a number of forums with no issues, can't say I remembered any problems with icab either. Is there a specific problem?
 
Jakeblu said:
Interested to know what problems you are having. I use Atomic pretty much exclusively and post to a number of forums with no issues, can't say I remembered any problems with icab either. Is there a specific problem?
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Yeah, they won't let me select the text box to input my reply. Not every time, and even worse, sometimes I'll start to compose my reply, leave the app to do something else, and when I come back, I can't get back to the text box.
 
Jakeblu said:
Interesting to know what problems you are having. I use Atomic pretty much exclusively and post to a number of forums with no issues, can't say I remembered any problems with icab either. Is there a specific problem?
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I would guess that one issue is that of the cursor disappearing while typing in a text box while on a vBulletin forum, like this one.

This happens because vBulletin doesn't recognize the browser as coming from an iDevice and uses javascript which doesn't work with the touch events. Going to settings->identify browser as Mobile Safari iPad/iPhone will fix the issue.

I prefer to have my browser recognized as Desktop Safari, so I live with the issue. Not a really big deal to me.
 
another vote for atomic

Fwiw, own and tried terra, perfect, mercury and icab. I keep coming back to atomic because it's the only browser I've found so far* that allows me to increase the default font size of a particular site (not just zoom in, which they all do) AND WILL REMEMBER it each time I visit that site.

Otherwise, my second choice would probably be iCab because of its polished UI.


* If anyone is aware on any other browsers that offer this, I'd really like to know.
 
atomic browser is my fave browser. It gives me the most desktop like experience out of all of the iPad browsers.
 
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