New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

Re:New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5 by SoftwareMaven on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @01:22PM (#2630014)

Use a different browser. iCab Mobile supports uploading, downloading, and side-loading to DropBox or iDisk. The only time I use Safari is when I clock a link in Mail or Twitter or some other client; otherwise, I use iCab almost exclusively.

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Re:New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5 by joelackner on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @04:32PM (#2630735)

while i use icab 99% of the time, i've hit a few limits. first off, not being able to set it as a default browser is frustrating. secondly, i've found a few rendering differences between it and safari: onswipe (the tablet theme powering wordpress.com blogs) and google font api being the two biggest ones i've ran into recently.

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Re:New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5 by SoftwareMaven on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @07:08PM (#2631328)

Jailbreaking will take care of the first issue (can't wait to jailbreak my iPad...).

I agree that there are some issues with it (it crashes frequently enough that I care), but, overall, I've found, overall, it is much better.

Features I use daily:

  * Pinboard current page
  * ReadItLater current page
  * Readability
  * Side-load to DropBox to pick up on my Mac
  * Youtube inside the browser
  * Ad filters

And so on...

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