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.
It is almost a year since Apple introduced Safari 3.0 for Windows XP and Vista and things have improved further with the Safari 3.1 version. The initial glitches of Safari 3.0 mainly with plug-ins on high-content sites are now history, and Safari 3.1 for Windows is now in the reckoning in the raging browser war. […]
Safari 3.1 for windows is still in its infancy and was only released in middle of March, so we should not expect any major increases in usage yet.
Yes, you too can get the beta of the new Safari browser for windows.
The windows requirements according to apple:
Windows XP or Vista
At least 256MB of RAM
500Mhz Pentium-class processor or better
Apple has released v3.0.4 of the Safari 3 beta for Windows.
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Safari 3.1 on Windows is finally out of beta and ready for testing and use.