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The Opera Coast web browser, by Opera Software ASA, has been remodeled to streamline browsing for you. The new 4.0 version now offers Discover, Turbo Compression, Coast Cards, and Handoff.

The the Discover feature helps you find the latest stories and news. As soon as you being searching, Opera will load up the most popular items of the day. You can swipe left or right to browse through them. The Turbo Compression reduces the size of webpages making for faster loading and less charges for your phones data bill.

Coast Card is your sharing button. Now when you find a cute video or awesome meme you can easily share it with your friends as Opera Coast will turn the link into an image that can be captioned and shared. Lastly, Handoff lets you move seamlessly between devices and maintain your web surfing. You'll be able to start a search on your iPhone and pick it up on your iPad or laptop.

Opera Coast 4.0 is available for free in the App Store now.

Tech Crunch reports that Opera Software has been hard at work on a made-for-iPad web browser for the past year and a half, and now they're finished. Coast by Opera is specifically an iPad web browser, not a computer browser tossed onto Apple's tablet. What this means is that the app has been optimized for use on iOS.

Specifically, that equates to a re-imagined interface. About the only buttons you'll find are one to go back to the Home page and one to bring up your recent History. Pretty much everything else is gesture-based such as swiping left and right to go back or forward a page, and a home screen similar to the familiar iOS interface that will display large icons for favorite sites as well as recently-visited ones to make bookmarking a lot simpler.

So if you've got an iPad and are looking for an intuitive web browser with a minimal interface, go ahead and give Coast a download.