Safari For windows

It is sad news for Opera fans. The Apple App Store has rejected the Opera Mini application developed by Opera engineers for the iPhone. It has been rejected on the grounds of duplicating functionality. Apple executives claim Opera Mini is similar to the Mobile Safari on the iPhone. The features of the Mobile Safari are simply fantastic.

Users of the iPhone can pinch-in/double click to zoom out and pinch-out/double click to zoom in,. Users can open upto eight tabs on their screen and can use as a Word/Excel document and PDF reader. The Mobile Safari is actually the fastest mobile browsers available in the market. Users feel that they should be provided the opportunity to try out other web browsers on their iPhone so they can have a totally new web browsing experience.

The Opera Mini web mobile browser is very popular and is already available on many smartphones, like the HTC P3450, but Apple simply would not allow it to be featured on its iPhone. The Opera Mini mobile web browser has the capacity to interpret codes and this is something Apple will not allow on its iPhone. The Opera Mini can be run on any operating system like Symbian, Windows Mobile and even low-end systems that run only Java-based applications.

Not only is it easy to install, it is also intuitive. That is what makes it a favorite contender as an alternative web browser for the Safari on the iPhone. While many users of the iPhone feel tat Apple should allow Opera Mini on the iPhone, Apple does not think so and has categorically rejected the proposal.

The Apple App Store is receiving more and more third party web browsers everyday. All the browsers have got a unique set of features. Some claim to be the most speedy web browsers, some boast of extra functions they offer to the user and some endorse simplicity at its best. The Full Screen Web Browser (FSWB) is the latest third party application released for the iPhone.

The speciality of FSWB is that it uses each and every pixel of the iPhone’s 480×320 display to display the web page. Of course, owners of the Apple iPod touch can also make full use of the browser’s capabilities. You may wonder that such full screen browsers have already been released but unlike them the FSWB does not sacrifices address bar and navigation bar. It displays the address bar and a translucent navigator at the bottom but these two options are automatically hide after few seconds. Shake your iPhone and the accelerometer will bring these two items again on the screen. The makers of FSWB claim that it increases the display area by 25 percent in portrait mode as compared to Safari browser. In landscape mode the viewable area extends by 40 percent that leverages web surfing.

Performance wise the FSWB is same as Apple Safari. This is because the Full Screen Web Browser is based on the safari’s WebKit engine. In order to incorporate stringent security parameters the history option is not included in FSWB. So you have to type full URL each time you visit a web page. You have to sacrifice tabbed browsing too if you wish to use FSWB.

iBrowser is one of the third party web browsers for iPhone launched recently. As every third party iPhone browser features something special the iBrowser too claims to be a unique one. The special feature of this browser is that it allows the user to lock the screen orientation. This means that if you lock the screen in portrait mode then the orientation of the web page will not change even if you hold the Apple iPhone in landscape direction.

This is a very useful feature because most of the time it happens that even a slight change in the iPhone’s direction leads to change in the web site’s orientation. Normally this automatic screen directional change, found other smartphones like the T-Mobile G1 Google-phone or HTC models, is a major asset for users. However, web browsers that are sensitive to phone’s direction cause lots of trouble when the user is driving. The iBrowser can solve this issue and offer you irritation free web browsing. But like the other third party browsers the iBrowser too has its own limitations. It does not support multiple pages or tabbed browsing plus there is no support for bookmarks, history, emailing a link to a page, page zoom in and zoom out. Moreover you will not find any preferences for customising cookies and scripts.

If you can survive without these options then the iBrowser app is perhaps the best option. However, the Incognito and QuickSurf are still better than this because these two also support screen’s orientation locking technology and offer loads of extra features and capabilities.

Apple has recently launched a new upgrade patch for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The company has also launched some minor bug fixes for both the devices. The basic aim of upgrading these handhelds is to increase overall system’s stability, make Safari web browser more reliable and improve performance.

The new upgrade file will provide a new platform to both Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Once downloaded and installed, both the device’s operating system will be upgraded to version 2.1.1. The upgrade for iPhone improves overall stability plus it fixes issues like images saved from the Mail app do not display correctly in the Camera Roll. Apart from this it will also make Safari browser more stable and totally free from errors. All you get is glitch free web browsing on the go. The update released for the Apple iPod Touch fixes the issue with regards to Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio files. These files usually get skipped during playback but now it’s completely resolved.

Upgrade process is as usual very easy. Just connect the devices to the PC or Mac and launch the iTunes application. Then select the ‘Check For Updates’ option on the iPhone/iPod Touch and the system will do the rest. The whole upgrade suite is of 246MB, so it is recommended to have a fast broadband connection.