What is your favorite alternative web browser for the iPad?

[Calidude]

The fast scroll bar overlaying the web page on "Perfect Browser" is the one thing that wins it for me.

I don't know if any other browsers offer this, but the ability to move your finger up and down about 3" and be able to scroll through an entire long web page is an unbeatable feature and one I think every browser should have.

So much better than having to swipe up and down perhaps a dozen times to get to the bottom of a page.

Oh crap, that exists? I want that!

 

[comixster]

skyfire is okay...it allows you to watch flash videos

 

[JulianL]

All these browsers are about to double their JavaScript speed on 11 March aren't they?

Steve Jobs announced that javascript performance is doubled in iOS 4.3 which due to be launched for the iPad 1 next Friday. I'm pretty sure that all these browsers, including Safari but excluding Opera Mini, are built on top of WebKit and it is WebKit that runs JavaScript so the same speedups for JavaScript should be seen in all the third part browsers (except for Opera Mini), hopefully with no app updates required.

iCab is the one I use by the way.

- Julian

 

[Piggie]

Oh crap, that exists? I want that!

Indeed it does, and once you have used it a few times, it's a "Killer Feature"

Of course, if you never try "Perfect Browser" then you'd never know this excellent feature exists.

Honestly, this alone makes it my browser of choice.

 

[Calidude]

skyfire is okay...it allows you to watch flash videos

Skyfire has that killer feature but it doesn't even have desktop style tabbed browsing and that's a dealbreaker for me.