TUAW review: Smoother iPhone browsing with VanillaSurf

February 25th, 2010 islowwgeruss

Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review While most iPhone and iPod touch users make do with the built-in Mobile Safari web browser, there are a number of alternative browsers that offer features that didn’t make it into Safari. All of these alternative browsers have one thing in common — they are all based on MobileSafari as a result of Apple’s policies. What the other browsers bring to the table are features like full-screen browsing, different ways of organizing tabs, and ad blocking. Many of the alternative browsers have passed by my iPhone home screen at least once before being summarily dismissed, but there is one that has actually been getting some use lately; bitStorm’s VanillaSurf . The free browser, which is now at…


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