Ask HN: Best iPad Browser?

colinplamondon · on Feb 10, 2011

Browser+, naturally!

It's the browser reinvented for the iPad.

Full-screen, gestures, Visual History, swipe to search, Most Visited, and 'Open in Overlay' so you can open links on sites like Hacker News, read the article, close it, and be right back where you started.

Any feature requests, ideas, or comments would definitely be appreciated. Here's a walkthrough video:

http://www.browserplusapp.com

jodrellblank · on Feb 10, 2011

Your walkthrough video is compelling, I've just bought a copy.

maguay · on Feb 10, 2011

I just purchased iCab a bit ago, and am already impressed at how much smoother the tab-switching experience is in it than with Atomic or Terra. In my quick evaluation, Terra is the best free alternate browser for just smooth tabbed browsing. iCab's my first for-pay browser on iPad; we'll see how it goes!

makecheck · on Feb 10, 2011

I use Atomic Web, which I like a lot (though I only used Safari on the iPad before this).

Atomic has tabs, a nice full screen mode, and a lot of useful preferences such as the ability to zoom fonts and save font sizes per site subdomain.

fourhourstartup · on Feb 10, 2011

Yes, Atomic Web Browser is the just 99 cents and is the best iOS browser (iPad and iPhone) I've found. The tabs are well designed and it manages memory much better than Safari so you're less likely to get a reload when you return to a page. It has many fun options like ad block, set UserAgent, gesture support, screen dimmer, video out, save for offline, etc.

I have tried many others but this is the only one I use instead of Safari.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atomic-web-browser-browse/id3...

makecheck · on Feb 10, 2011

And, they've released about 5 updates with new features for that 99 cents.

sid0 · on Feb 10, 2011

You mean "browser skin", just like the IE skins of the early 2000s.