What browser should we use on iOS (iPhone and iPad)?
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@realmat0s We NEED Vivaldi for iOS PLEASE!
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@weneedvivaldiforios
yes, with at least password sync (but bookmarks and settings would be also great) - Brave for iOS cannot sync passwords and Opera for iOS... unfortunately it is useless for everyday usage -
@smerugu28 , Whale Browser seems a good alternative
https://whale.naver.com/en/>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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Besides all the obvious browsers, Neeva for iOS is an interesting mobile browser. It is created by the Neeva search guys and it does have a nice UI and tracker blocking (they call this the "Wall of Shame" in Neeva).
Also I did find a nice feature in iOS Safari: You can swipe horizontally at the address bar on the bottom to switch tabs.
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@catweazle NAVER Whale browser is not so good, because NAVER account needs phone number.
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Nowadays, mobile-to-desktop synchronization is very important. How can we compete with Chrome & Edge without data synchronization? They provide all of the services between mobile and desktop. If we do not do this job, we will have no choices but only can use these browsers who cannot protect our privacy. And why this happened? Because we will be eliminated from the market competition. So, they should value our voice, we NEED Vivaldi for iOS! We NEED sync between mobile and desktop. The people who has the same request PLEASE support us!
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@weneedvivaldiforios All this is understood. That said, Vivaldi for iOS is very labor-intensive to get to. Vivaldi does have a plan for it. However, it's hauling a big rock up a steep hill. Every man-hour devoted to it is a man-hour taken away from fixing bugs and from maintaining and developing every other platform. It's not "let's do Vivaldi for iOS next Tuesday!" It's "What shall we abandon for now, so that we can spend a few weeks/months developing Vivaldi for iOS?"
As I said, Vivaldi already has a plan for this (and for all I know, may have begun it). But it's a major undertaking. Then when it's done, there has to be someone(s) dedicated to continually maintaining and updating it, which is manpower not available for maintaining and updating Windows, Linux (RPM and DEB) , Mac OS, and Android (phone and tablet) versions. These are the individual versions being maintained, developed and updated at present:
Windows 32Bit
Windows 64bit
macOS Intel 10.11
macOS M1 10.11
Linux 64bit RPM (.rem and .tar builds)
Linux 64bit Deb
Linux 64bit-ARM RPM
Linux 64bit-ARM Deb - 5.2.2592.21 (d127873)
Android 32bit-ARM - 5.2.2591.11 (25264df)
Android 64bit-ARM - 5.2.2591.11 (25264df)
Android 64bit - 5.2.2591.11 (25264df)iOS will add an entirely new branch.
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Of course I know that, but market competition is cruel, the users will not think about it that much, they will only think about the experience. Good luck to all the teams that are trying to break the monopoly, and we hope that day won't be too long, before the users give up.
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@weneedvivaldiforios , yes, but for iOS, due to the restrictive conditions of Apple, also the reason of the problems with Vivaldi, there are only very few valid alternatives which have sync and some minimum features.
There are also the DDG Browser, but I don't know if he has sync.
https://duckduckgo.com/appYou also can try other alternatives in this page
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There are already threads to ask for an iOS Vivaldi. I'd like to keep this thread to the topic of iOS browser recommendations.
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until Vivaldi shows up i'm using Brave on my iPad and iPhone, syncs my passwords and history / bookmarks, if Firefox had a adblocker i might be tempted to use that
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@catweazle said in What browser should we use on iOS (iPhone and iPad)?:
Seems that UR Browser exist also for iOS (French privacy browser, I think better than Brave)
That is still not available on the Apple Store for iOS.
Incidentally, I tried it on the Mac, but it kept crashing. -
@streptococcus , well. there are some privacy focused browsers which you can try until Vivaldi has a iOS version.
https://alternativeto.net/software/safari/?feature=privacy-focused&license=free&platform=iphone
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Safari might be the best choice now, because the iOS Safari now has extensions. Fortunately, an iOS Vivaldi is now in the works.
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@Eggcorn said in What browser should we use on iOS (iPhone and iPad)?:
Safari might be the best choice now, because the iOS Safari now has extensions. Fortunately, an iOS Vivaldi is now in the works.
Orion Browser ... it REALLY has Chrome/Firefox/Other extensions and is the most private/secure browser by a good margin!
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@treego Does the iOS version have Chrome/Firefox/Other extensions, or is that just the Mac version?
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@Eggcorn said in What browser should we use on iOS (iPhone and iPad)?:
@treego Does the iOS version have Chrome/Firefox/Other extensions, or is that just the Mac version?
I have it on my iPhone (iOS).
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