The iPhone and iPod touch screens are not that big, so I would prefer a full screen mode. Instead, Chrome relies on WebKit, a built in webpage loader.Ĭhrome doesn’t support full screen mode, and it’s a huge letdown even though it’s menu bar is rather small. Chrome doesn’t have it, and can load them up to 3.5 times slower than Safari. This is an engine to make Javascript load faster on webpages. This is a real lack and it makes me feel sort of unhappy being distracted by those ads while reading an article. Often, when we want to read articles but they are on a messy page full of irritating advertisements, we just tap on the “reader” at the top of Safari.However, Chrome doesn’t have this more-than-useful function.
If you use these regularly, you may want to consider before ditching Safari. You can no longer share a webpage with twitter, message, email or add a webpage shortcut to home screen. save a webpage to Pocket.Ĭhrome doesn’t support these, which means you can’t do what you usually do with bookmarklets anymore. This is in high contrast to the easy access of the button in Safari.īookmarklets are those little things that use Javascript to do something, eg. For example, If a webpage hangs and you would like to stop and refresh the page, you have to drop the menu, stop, drop the menu again, then refresh it again. The stop/refresh button is only located in the drop down menu and isn’t efficient enough for users in a rush. If you often or always use Chrome on your Mac/PC, or you use it throughout your iPad, iPhone and/or iPod Touch, this will prove more than useful for you.Īfter all that nice stuff, let’s take a look at what cons Chrome for iOS has.Ĭhrome for iOS has just set a record for browsers: it’s the first one to not have a History page to access your past viewed pages! Let’s hope google fixes this soon.Ģ. On the technical side, this works by making the server recognize your device as a desktop browser. Simply drop the menu, and tap “request desktop site”. This is where Safari loses out: Chrome has a built in feature to show a desktop site instead of mobile. To solve this, change Zephyr’s settings to two or more fingers. One down side of this though, is that if you have zephyr installed and set to one finger, it will conflict with this feature. In any open tab, swipe left or right from the edge of the screen to switch between tabs. Those of you familiar with Zephyr, a multitasking jailbreak tweak by chpwn, must be familiar with this gestures. Or in landscape, swipe up or down to do so. In portrait view, swipe a tab left or right to close it. Gestures make up a big part of Chrome’s success. However, do not judge a book by its cover, as some minor and major flaws exist too.īut before that, let’s look at some of the more outstanding features Google Chrome has first. Tabs screen and drop down menu have nice UI, but the drop down menu still needs some more designing. The UI feels much better than Safari for iPhone/iPod touch, thanks to the silver UI instead of the disgusting blue in Safari. The familiar Chrome look, now on your iDevice. “Tabs” screen: looks far more amazing than that in Safari! We all expect high standards from the genius company, but is it really better than default Safari? Is it really worth replacing Safari on your dock with Chrome? Google has made one of our best loved desktop browsers, Chrome, into a mobile iOS app.
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