Mercury Browser

Customizable screen modes: full screen, tabs on, URL panel on

Full screen browsing maximums the utilization of device screen. You can even hide toolbar with shaking( Turn on option “Shake to hide toolbar” in Settings screen). In full screen mode, you can drop down the URL panel by pressing the green arrow at the top right corner. URL panel will be hidden automatically after a page is loaded or when you tap on the screen. Under tabs on mode, tab switching is just a tap on the tab bar. And you still utilize most of the iPhone/iPod touch screen. Combines with dashboard and bookmarks, you can open your favorites web sites with two or three taps. Other options related to screen are “Shake to hide toolbar”, “Show/hide status bar” and “Show/hide scroll bar”. “Show/hide status bar” can show or hide the status bar(with wireless signal, time, battery, etc) on the top of the screen.

Support landscape and portrait mode with orientation locking

You can browse the pages and screens with landscape and portrait orientation. By pressing “Action” button and select “Lock/Unlock rotation”, you can lock/unlock the orientation.

Tabs support

Support up to 10 Tabs with website icon and title on tab. Multiple Tabs can be loaded and rendered simultaneously. Tab can be loaded on background while you are reading on another Tab. When you tap a link with target “_blank”, a new tab will be open on the background. You can also hold down on a link to open the link in a new tab.

Customizable toolbar

You can customize the boolbar with your favorite buttons in Settings screen. By default, the buttons on tool bar are “Back”, “Forward”, “Action”, “Settings”, “Search” and “Screen mode”. “Back” and “Forward” button can be used to go back or forward to previous page. “Action” button can show the menu with the most common functions like “Add bookmark”, “Save page”, “Mail link to this page”, “Lock/unload rotation”, “Show/hide status bar”, “Show/hide scroll bar”, “Show/hide dashboard”, “Increase/Descrease font size” etc. “Settings” button can be use to open the Settings screen to customize the app. “Search” button provides in-page keyword search. “Screen mode” allows you to switch screen mode.

Download everything as you are on desktop browser

You can download web page with images, PDF files, images, audio/video files, iWork docs, MS office files by hold down on a link or an image. You can download files on background while browsing web pages. And the download can be suspended or resumed at any time.

Superior file manager and viewer

The in-app file manager is easy to use but powerful. The files can by organized by folders hierarchy like desktop file system. You can enter edit mode to copy/move/delete one or more files or folders. The in-app file viewer can be used to view web pages, images, PDF files, iWork/office files and play audio/video files. You can even open a PDF file with thousand of pages.

Recognize multi-touch gestures with customizable actions

Multi-touch gestures allow you to control the app with your fingers. For example, you can use two fingers to tap on the top section of screen to scroll to the top of a page. The app recognizes multi-touch gestures like two-finger swipe with four directions and two-finger tap on different screen sections. You can customize the actions associate with them in Settings screen.

Adblock with customizable rules

You can enable adblock in Settings screen to block ad on web sites and speed up page loading. The filtering algorithm is optimized for mobile device to block ad with minimum calculation. In Setting screen, you can also add/modify the filtering rules.

Support tab-and-hold gesture on links and images

When you tap-and-hold on a link or an image, you can get options to open links on new tab, mail links, save image, mail image, download link, etc.

Private browsing

You can enable private browsing in Settings screen to prevent history and cookies to be stored in the device. The font color of URL input box will be changed to purple under private browsing mode. And you can even enable passcode protection for your browser to prevent other people from opening the browser on your iPhone.

Two styles of bookmark manager

You can choose Springboard Style and Classic Style (Folder Style) for the bookmark manager as your need. With Springboard Style, an iPhone icon will be download from the website if the website supports iPhone icon. By pressing “Edit” button in the bookmark manager screen, you can enter edit mode and re-arrange bookmark icons with finger pressing and moving. Classic Style bookmark manager is suitable for handling hundreds of bookmarks with folders. You can import bookmarks from desktop browser in Settings screen.

Fast scrolling with scroll bar

You can easily scroll a long page with the quick scroll bar on the right side of screen. And you can hide/show the quick scroll bar by pressing “Action” button and select “Show/hide scroll bar” or by changing the option in Settings screen.

Four options for start-up screen

By setting start-up screen on Settings panel, you can open your home page at start-up, or bring up bookmark manager, or restore the saved Tabs from last session, or start with dashboard. To setup start-up screen, tap “Settings” button on the toolbar and select “Settings” tab.

Open web pages like desktop browser

IPhone is actually capable of handling web pages like your desktop browser. You can change “Browser Type” to “Desktop Browser” in Settings screen to enable this feature to get a rich version of a website.

Support multiple search engines

When you input searching key words on search box, you can select your favorite search engines on the drop down.

Page compression for better download speed

Page compression can be turned on in Settings screen. This will increase download speed for a lot of web sites.

More features

Page mobilization with Goolge mobilizer to minimum download and rendering time
Disable images to speed up page loading
Support BASIC and DIGEST authentication
Prompt to accept/reject thirty party SSL certificates
Auto suggest URLs based on browsing history
Install common bookmarklets