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Opera Touch was released today for iOS. The "light, fast, and secure" browser is specially designed for all-screen devices with no home button like the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, and comes with an interface that's optimized for one-handed use.

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Thanks to a floating "Fast Action" menu button located at the bottom of the screen, users can touch to access a radial menu and swipe through several actions, enabling them to open and close browser tabs, perform searches, and navigating forwards and backwards through web pages with their thumb.

The main screen includes quick access to top and recent websites, and the browser also features built-in ad blocking and comes with protection against disguised online cryptocurrency mining, or "cryptojacking".

Elsewhere, the app makes use of Opera's My Flow feature, which allows users to transfer URL links, images, and note clippings between devices running Opera over a secure and private connection.

Opera Touch is available for iPhone and iPad in several languages and can be downloaded directly from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Opera Touch Browser Released for iPhone and iPad
 

moabal

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It’s interesting. However, since I cannot set defaults on iOS it’s a non starter for me.
 
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m0sher

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I gave it a try this morning for a few hours again, this browser is definitely not for me. Meh.

I like Google Chrome but i don’t like its data mining. Nothing compares to Safari browsing the internet on mobile phones IMO, it’s the most solid all around browser.

Removed and avoided Opera like cancer ever since Opera Software got bought out by companies in China!

In the end I concur and this is one of the other reasons I won’t use it. It was bought out by, Qihoo 360
 
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emptyego

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I use Cake Browser for my daily use, and Safari obviously for everything that gets linked in otherwise. I wish we could set a default. I'd set mine to Cake in an instant!
 

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Opera Touch was released today for iOS. The "light, fast, and secure" browser is specially designed for all-screen devices with no home button like the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, and comes with an interface that's optimized for one-handed use.

opera-touch-1-800x391.jpg

Thanks to a floating "Fast Action" menu button located at the bottom of the screen, users can touch to access a radial menu and swipe through several actions, enabling them to open and close browser tabs, perform searches, and navigating forwards and backwards through web pages with their thumb.

The main screen includes quick access to top and recent websites, and the browser also features built-in ad blocking and comes with protection against disguised online cryptocurrency mining, or "cryptojacking".

Elsewhere, the app makes use of Opera's My Flow feature, which allows users to transfer URL links, images, and note clippings between devices running Opera over a secure and private connection.

Opera Touch is available for iPhone and iPad in several languages and can be downloaded directly from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Opera Touch Browser Released for iPhone and iPad

Nope, its not for iPad. You can download it and install it but its not made for iPad so it looks terrible. Well not that terrible as Opera Mini with those tabs :D
 

nburwell

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Removed and avoided Opera like cancer ever since Opera Software got bought out by companies in China!

Not that I was going to download this to my devices, but good to know.

While I have always been a fan of Chrome, I started using Safari progressively more across my Apple devices.
 
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jedy

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I'm wondering if this browser is just style over substance, just like the now defunct Opera Coast. Can't really try it as I don't have an iPhone (just an iPad). What I really want is tracking protection, a simple way to delete browsing data and Opera's Speed Dial. All mobile browsers that try to reinvent the wheel lack really basic features. The Opera browser on iOS is so full of bugs that never seem to get fixed plus has a clunky interface. I think where mobile browsing is concerned, Opera favour Android.
 
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