MyFox

October 18, 08 by Daniel

Version 1.3

This is a safari replacement web browser. Supports
1)Full Screen Browsing
2)Turn Landscape Mode on and off
3)Bookmarks
4)URL Recovery
5)Home Page
6)Google Search
7)Mail Link

MyFox is a replacement for the Safari web browser. It carries similar features that safari has like bookmarks (that sync with Safari), landscape mode, home page, web clips, quick searching with multiple search engines to default to, and url recovery. But MyFox is lacking some features like multi-page browsing. It’s most notable features are full screen browsing, and faster load times (in my testing), which could make MyFox your new iPhone browser.

This is the main feature of MyFox is it’s full screen browsing mode in either portrait or landscape mode. The feature can be enabled in the settings menu. To activate full screen, shake your phone! The app is picky when detecting shakes, often taking a few tires to get it to work, I’d prefer some finger gesture to shaking. But the browsing experience is the same as we’ve come to love within Safari without the blue bars.

In my testing, MyFox seemed to load web pages faster. Below are the load times of various sites compared to Safari. The tests were conducted on the same wifi network, same device, and all caches cleared before hand.

My final verdict is MyFox is a nice alternative to Safari, but the lack of multi-page browsing, a sometimes jerky and weird interface are keeping me from making it my primary browser. If you can tolerate the negatives for a full screen mode and a slightly faster browsing experience, MyFox could be for you.

[Source - BigBoss] Cydia

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  1. Niko Says: 08.12.08 at 9:58 am

    when will there be an update??!?

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  2. KJ Says: 17.05.09 at 10:24 pm

    there is an update… my fox 2.0 has tabbed browsing… etc updates
    but what i really wanna know/ can’t figure out/find solution to is… how do you make my fox the iphone’s defautl browser??

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  3. KJ Says: 17.05.09 at 10:24 pm

    … please reply

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  4. Chris McDaniel Says: 22.06.09 at 1:46 am

    Hi this is Godogshomie, I have sent the 2.0 + updated it a bit to apple for review. Look for it worldwide here soon

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  5. KJ Says: 09.07.09 at 12:45 am

    w8 Chris McDaniel… are you the MyFox developer?? If you are that is so awesome… man lemme just say I wanna be a programmer… BUT I’m wayyy too lazy to every learn a programming language (I mean it’s just like a whole new language except it’s in English… sort of haha I learned html) and btw I’m surprised there’s all of two other ppl commenting on this I’d think more ppl would know about this… thousands have jalibroken iphones many must have MyFox

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  6. PJC Says: 09.07.09 at 12:54 am

    I had hoped that I could make file attachments to posts on the various online forums that I frequent with MyFox but, not so.

    It at least shows the “Manage Attachments” tab and it can eb activated but a new screen to facilitate the upload is not presented.

    It is simply stupid that this limitation persists on open “Jailbroken” phones that have all others forms of access available.

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