Mercury Web Browser - with Powerful AdBlock Extension icon

App Detail » Mercury Web Browser - with Powerful AdBlock Extension

Published by: iLegendSoft Inc

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 9.1.0
Released: October 07, 2009

What's New

** Improvements:

- Newly-added Touch ID and Pattern lock in Screen Lock Passcode.
- Open websites with Mercury directly in other apps.
- Add articles to Mercury reading list directly from other apps.
- Newly-added Import Local Albums function in File manager.
- New Startup option: Reload all tabs on restarting Mercury.
- Newly-added Danish and Brazilian Portuguese.

** Bug fixing:

- Bug fixed for the dysfunction problem caused by Facebook API change.
- Bug fixes for the Screen Lock Passcode problem under rotation.
- Minor bugs fixes.

App Description

Mercury is a fast and elegant web browser for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The rich feature set includes themes, downloading, printing, fullscreen browsing, file sharing, adblock, tabs, multi touch geatures, user agent switcher, private browsing, passcode lock, save page, Facebook/Twitter integration and a lot more.

**** HIGHLIGHTS ****

** THEMES
Mercury iPad and iPhone allows users to customize UI with 11 gorgeous themes.

** TABS
Mercury Browser supports two tab style: classic and thumbnail. You can open up to 10 tabs. Holding down a link can open the link in a new tab or a new background tab. Tabs load simultaneously.

** SYNC
Sync bookmarks with Firefox and Chrome

** DROPBOX INTEGRATION
You can send your downloaded files to your Dropbox account with just two taps.

** DOWNLOAD
Hold down a link or image to download the file or image in background. Multiple downloads can run at the same time and you can suspend and resume them at any time.

** FULL SCREEN BROWSING
Browse webpage with the entire screen and navigate with gesture and toolbar.

** FILE SHARING
You can transfer the files in the app with desktop computers via iTunes File Sharing, Wi-Fi transfer or email.

** AD BLOCK
Mercury Browser equips with an optimized URL filtering engine to block most ad banners. Ad block is OFF by default, you can turn it on in settings screen.

** IDENTIFY BROWSER AS IE, FIREFOX AND SAFARI
Mercury Browser can spoof the UserAgent string to trick web sites into thinking the browser is a desktop browser.

** PRINTING(require iOS 4.2+)

** MULTI TOUCH GESTURE SUPPORT
9 gestures are supported.
Default Settings:
- Shake: No Action (iPhone only)
-2 finger swipe left: Switch to Previous Tab
-2 finger swipe right: Switch to Next Tab
-2 finger swipe up: Prevous Page
-2 finger swipe down: No Action
-2 finger tap on top: Go to top
-2 finger tap on middle: Control Panel
-2 finger tap on bottom: Go to bottom
-3 finger tap: Close tab

** FILE MANAGER AND VIEWER
The in-app file manager organize files with folders. PDF, images, audio/video, pages and docs can be view with in-app file viewer and open with other apps like Keynotes or Pages.

** AUTOFILL
Save and fill out forms by pressing the buttons on keyboard toolbar. You can fill the login name and password with just one tap.

** IN-PAGE-SEARCH
Key words are highlighted with in-page-search. You can even navigate the match with search toolbar in iPad version.

** BOOKMARKS
-Bookmark menu (iPad only)
-Add/edit/move/delete bookmarks and folders
-Import bookmarks from desktop browser
-Export bookmarks
-Launch app with bookmarks in a folder (iPad only)

** SAVE PAGE WITH IMAGES

** SEARCH ENGINES
7 default search engines are included and you can add more in settings screen. Auto complete is enabled in iPad version with suggestions.

** PRIVATE BROWSING
Enable private browsing will stop the browser from remember history and clear cookies on exit.

** BOOKMARKLETS
You can install default bookmarklets in settings screen to have features like page translation and UPS search. You can also install Mercury Bookmarklet into Safari to open web page with Mercury Browser with one tap.

** DASHBOARD
Dashboard can be launch to access your favorites websites with one tap.

** SHARE LINK
You can share a link by Email, Facebook, twitter or Evernote.

** STARTUP OPTIONS
You can launch the app with home page, dashboard, tabs from last session or bookmarks in a folder (iPad only).

** SCROLL BAR
Fast and smooth scrolling with quick scroll bar.

** PERFORMANCE
You can use options like compression, mobilizer, image blocking to reduce download time.

** SCREEN DIMMER
Screen dimmer to adjust screen brightness for night time viewing.

** MORE FEATURES
Customizable toolbar
Increase/decrease font size
Rotation lock
BASIC, DIGEST authentication
Detect telephone, SMS links
URL suggestion base on hits
Accept third-party SSL certificates