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Webkit mono-culture strikes as major browser vulnerability affects iPhone, Android and Blackberry

February 28, 2012 | By Surur

An often heard refrain is that Microsoft should stop trying to develop its own browser rendering engine and just capitulate to webkit, the browser engine used in most of the mobile web.

Microsoft’s stubbornness is paying off today, as George Kurtz, CEO of the new security company CrowdStrike warned of a new vulnerability affecting all Webkit Mobile browsers which could give malware complete control of your phone.

He warned the malware could listen in on your conversations, view through your camera, track your location and record everything in your email and messages, and that devices can be infected by simply visiting a malicious website. Devices would even potentially be infected by SMS messages.

Kurtz has some credibility, having discovered the Chinese Shady Rat operation that compromised US government and defence contractors in 2011 while he was CTO at McAfee. He left that company after the Intel acquisition.

Kurtz is set to demonstrate the vulnerability at the RSA security conference tomorrow, but until the issue is fixed he said there is not much users can do except not to click on untrusted links and wait for updates, something which on Android especially can be an issue.

Kurtz confirmed Windows Phone 7 was unaffected.

Looking for a fast, reliable, and metro web browser? Try Next Browser!

February 24, 2012 | By simzz

Next Browser is on sale for $1.49 currently, and will soon go back up to $1.99. There is a free trial available with no limitations except for an advertisement.

Next Browser is fast, beautiful, and has many great features like:

up to 8 tabs
fast and metro-designed
main and secondary tiles flip to show useful
information
orientation lock
Telerik controls
and others!

Next Browser has a 4.5 star average rating in the marketplace, and is only
$1.49 instead of $1.99 for a limited time! Try the free, ad-supported trial now
and buy it if you like it. There are no limitations!

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Vable Browser v1.7

October 30, 2011 | By varavut

Vable Browser is a Internet Explorer 9 based web browser. With Vable Browser you can surf the web faster easier and smarter.

Features

Swipe from right or left edge to switch tab
Swipe from top or bottom edge to show Url bar
Setting Home Page
Setting Search Provider
Remember all tabs when app close
Show the tutorial in first use
Compat view for force render web as Internet Explorer 7 (same as 7004-7392)*
Find on page
Desktop Mode

Change log
v1.1

fix "restore website" issue
add "favorite icon" to history page
add "close all tabs" button in tabs page
add "write review" menu
add "compat view"

v1.2

add find function in applicationbar menu
add forward in applicationbar menu
add open in IE in applicationbar menu

v1.3

add "Don’t hide address bar" option in settings page
add clear cookies button in settings page

v1.5

change Tile background to transparent
fix file download problem by using internet explorer

v1.6

add Desktop mode
move "At to favorites" applicationbar menu icon to applicationbar menu

v1.7

fix some problem of desktop view but still has post data problem
add swipe to show all tabs in option (will instead swipe to change tab)
fix refresh problem

*Compat view is mode that force browser to render web as IE7 by use the iFrame.
The problems of iFrame must be occur in this mode e.g. can not open some website
such as google.com.

*Compat view is use for read some website that work great in WP7.0 but in 7.1
has something wrong.

know issue of compat view

cannot show the website icon
cannot show current URL on the address bar
some website will error 404
scroll is very slow

other issue

desktop view has some problem about post data

Price :1.99 USD for full version and free trial for Ad-supported version (don’t worry no ads in main page)

v 1.0 on MarketPlace

You can find newer version at XDA-Developers

Thank you.

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Surfcube 3D browser updated to Mango

October 29, 2011 | By Surur

SurfCube, the 3D IE browser shell, has been updated to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

The software now supports fast app switching, sharing via email, Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live and LinkedIn and YouTube video playback, and finally a clock and connection status icon on the top of the page.

The full list of features include:

The best tab support on WP7
Portal reading mode: any page can be set to open links in new or background tabs by default
Full HTML5 compatibility
Share a page via email, Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live and LinkedIn
Supports landscape and portrait orientation
Orientation lock
Pin pages to start menu
Desktop Mode
Search
Private mode for when you want to buy gifts for your spouse
Can run under the lock screen so returning after being powered off is instantaneous
History and favorites to help finding that website again
Bandwidth saver mode – for sites that don’t have a mobile mode. Even images can be turned off for a truly fast and low cost browsing!
Save Images to your phone
YouTube video playback (to remove ad, buy the full version)
Pin sites to start menu
Many more features are coming soon!

surfcube The app has a fully functional ad-supported trial, and costs $1.99 for the ad-free version.

The app can be found in Marketplace here.

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Update v1.6 for WikiRama Free and WikiRama available

August 8, 2011 | By CodeView.net

WikiRama Overview

WikiRama

Full-Description:
WikiRama brings Wikipedia tailored to your Windows Phone 7. Browse Wikipedia in a cool Panorama-Style over the Metro UI. Switch quickly between different articles like Tab-Browsing. Open articles in Fullscreen-Mode and navigate within sections (Table of contents).

Features:

Wikipedia Languages: Afrikaans, Chinese, Czech, Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Greek, Hungarian, Italiano, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Russian, Suomi, Svenska
Autocomplete-Search (Suggestions)
Up to 6 concurrently open Tabs
Fullscreen-Mode (Landscape and Portrait)
Navigation within sections (Table of contents)
Favorites
Browsing History
Customization (Settings)
Context-sensitive Menu-handling

Updates in version v1.6:

Layout improvements
More Languages
Settings-Page

WikiRama Free can be download from Marketplace here.
WikiRama (ad-free version) can be download from Marketplace here.
For more information please visit: www.codeview.net

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WikiRama Free released – Panoramic Wikipedia Browser

July 27, 2011 | By CodeView.net

WikiRama Free brings Wikipedia tailored to your Windows Phone 7. Browse Wikipedia in a cool Panorama-Style over the Metro UI. Switch quickly between different articles like Tab-Browsing. Open articles in Fullscreen-Mode and navigate within sections (Table of contents).

Wikipedia Languages: Chinese, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Russian, Svenska
Autocomplete-Search (Suggestions)
Up to 6 concurrently open Tabs
Fullscreen-Mode (Landscape and Portrait)
Navigation within sections (Table of contents)
Favorites
Browsing History
Context-sensitive Menu-handling

WikiRama Free can be download from Marketplace here.

For more information please visit: www.codeview.net/wp7apps/wikirama-free

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WikiRama v1.1 with trial version released

July 3, 2011 | By CodeView.net

WikiRama

Browse Wikipedia in a cool Panorama-Style (Metro UI). Switch quickly between different articles like Tab-Browsing. Open articles in Fullscreen-Mode and navigate quickly within sections (Table of contents).

Features:

Supports the following 12 Wikipedia Languages: DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JA, NL, PL, PT, RU, SV, ZH
Autocomplete-Search
Up to 6 concurrently open Tabs
Display articles in Fullscreen-Mode (Landscape and Portrait)
Favorites
Browsing History
Context-sensitive Menu-handling

WikiRama is $0.99 (Trial Version available) and can be downloaded from Marketplace here.

For more information please visit www.codeview.net.

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WikiRama – Panoramic Wikipedia Browser

June 13, 2011 | By CodeView.net

WikiRama

Browse Wikipedia articles in a cool Panorama-Style. Switch easily between different articles like Tab-Browsing. Open articles in Fullscreen-Mode and navigate quickly within sections (Table of contents).

Search with Autocomplete
Up to 6 concurrently open Tabs
Display articles in Fullscreen-Mode (Landscape and Portrait)
Favorites
Browsing History
Supports the following 12 Wikipedia Languages: DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JA, NL, PL, PT, RU, SV, ZH
Context-sensitive Menu-handling

WikiRama is $0.99 and can be downloaded from Marketplace here. For more information please visit www.codeview.net.

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SuperTube hits version 1.3, now in Zune Hub

April 24, 2011 | By fscode

SuperTube allows you to stream and download YouTube videos in HQ and HD. Version 1.3 of SuperTube has now been published.

New features:

Custom background
Browse the videos with low quality
Optimize the function of playing the video in HQ and HD by 3G connection
Shortcut to SuperTube within the Zune Hub

The basic functions:

Stream 720P, 360P videos from YouTube
Download YouTube videos, and supports resume broken downloads
Search all videos by relevance, published date, view count and rating
Support Multi-Language (English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese) and Multi-region function
Login YouTube account to view subscription and favorites
Supports full-screen mode to watch videos
Nearby video: view the videos near your location
Like, Dislike button and Comment
Share on Facebook and Twitter

All users of trial and full version can browse the videos in HQ and HD for free. Trial version contains advertisement, and limits users to download 3 videos successfully. The full version removes all advertisements, and allows users to download the videos without limit.

SuperTube 1.23can be found in Marketplace here.

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Mozilla :”We’re not looking to bringing Firefox itself to Windows Phone 7 at this point.”

April 2, 2011 | By Surur

firefox-home While everyone else is trying to be everywhere all the time, Mozilla at present does not think they need a Windows phone 7 presence.

During an interview with Softonic, Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla Corporation said they were not a present thinking of Windows Phone 7.

Jay said:

At the moment we are focusing on Android in terms of the browser. For those other platforms we may do things like Firefox Home, so you can fire up any browser and get to your Firefox data. We’re not looking to bringing Firefox itself to Windows Phone 7 at this point.

While we understand the difficulty in getting an alternate rendering engine on Windows Phone 7 it is a bit disappointing not to see any commitment to bringing a FireFox Home-type app to Windows phone 7, which should generally be very simple to develop and support their brand on Windows Phone 7 also.

Terra Explorer on WP7

March 25, 2011 | By ryanjlee

Terra Explorer introduces search as a central theme in the browsing experience. The concept is based on the way some people prefer to explore the web – by searching first, then browsing.

Terra Explorer was released to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace on March 18th and features major search engines incorporated into the browser and allows the searching of the web, news, local, wiki, video and images added.

It supports French, German, Italian, Spanish and English and revolutionizes the mobile web browsing experience for Windows Phone 7.

See some screen shots after the break:

Continue reading →

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No Opera 11 for Windows Mobile, possibly for Windows Phone “when and where there is a business case for doing so”

March 22, 2011 | By Surur

A sad farewell to a Windows Mobile stalwart

Opera has announced in a forum post that they will no longer be releasing new versions of their browser for Windows Mobile.

Noting that there have not been new devices released with the mobile OS for some time (not really true) and that its market share is rapidly shrinking (certainly true) , they claim “the platform can no longer provide the revenue potential that Opera Software would need to keep investing in it.”

They did not however close the door on all Microsoft mobile operating systems, saying about Windows Phone.

Regarding Microsoft’s new platform, Windows Phone 7, Opera is continuously evaluating that and other platforms and we will make products available when and where there is a business case for doing so.

Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile will continue to be available for download.

The Opera Mobile browser was instrumental in keeping Windows Mobile competitive in its last 3 years, so it is sad to see a pillar of the operating system and user experience on these devices go away. However on Windows Phone 7, I believe rather unexpectedly, the IE browser has been more than adequate, and of course we are expecting even more from an updated IE9 browser some months time.

Via Favbrowser.com

Thanks Andy for the tip.

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7 Tab Browser: Now with bookmark support

March 21, 2011 | By simzz

7 Tab Browser has been updated to version 1.6 and now supports bookmark functionality.

7 Tab Browser lets you easily switch between tabs and access your favourite websites quickly. When you leave the browser, your sites you were browsing are saved, so you don’t need to remember which pages you were on. 7 Tab Browser also features Dual Mode, which places one browser directly above another browser window, allowing you to track two sites at the same time. Useful for tracking sports games, stocks, or other real-time events.

The browser now supports bookmarks, improved dual mode, and has received numerous bug fixes.

If you would like to give 7 Tab Browser a spin, go ahead and try the free version (ad supported) or the Pro version for $0.99.

Marketplace links:
Free version, Pro version

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