MyFox

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.

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