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by mark_integerdsv 5087 days ago
Cydia has a tweak to change your default browser. Sorted.

iOS Chrome has greater issues.

Tab management is all whizz bang but very unintuitive.

I have used it for about a day and can it fathom how to email a link to the current page to someone.

Emailing a link to the current page is not a standard use case for desktop but it is typical on mobile.

Further: it's hard to see where to arrest the loading of a page, the progress thermometer 'blue zing' thing is very attractive but it doesnt allow any interaction.

Somehow the load new incognito tab button is nearer my fingers than the load a tab in background button. It's annoying that you'd assume I'm fapping.

I think the guys developing this app need to spend more time using other mobile browsers to get a feel for the knds of things people want to do on mobile... iOS Chrome feels like a desktop experience squeezed into 3.5 inches.

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In order to email the current page, or stop a page from loading, hit the menu button to the right of the omnibar.

Email will be the 5th text row down.

Note that I do not think it is a side effect of desktop to mobile, but instead their attempt to maximise the content area.

After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there...
> After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there...

Hopefully you get this - see the areas marked in red on the attached screenshot: http://imgur.com/N2tL9