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by greyman 3879 days ago
I use Safari on iPad, but on iPhone it is unusable for many websites, since it doesn't support text reflow (my opinion). So on iPhone I use Mercury, but sometimes it is a bit slow. So on iPhone there is still a room for a better browser, imho.
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Agree, a better iOS browser is indeed needed. I tried Mercury, which does what I want (esp. ad blocking), but does it too slowly.

After 2+ years, I'm still using Atomic Browser on iPhone + iPad, even though it hasn't been updated in years and now triggers some websites' warning, "You appear to be using an old unsupported version of Firefox".

You should absolutely try iCab Mobile. See my post here¹.

iCab has been around for a really long time on desktops. Seriously, it existed before even Mac OS X², so it’s no surprise that the dev would carry all that experience over to the iOS version.

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¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554192

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICab