By Rachel Metz, Technology Review
As smartphones and tablets become increasingly important parts of our lives, much of our Web browsing will shift to these devices and the applications we use to get online will need to keep up. Swipe to surf: Dolphin Browser offers users a range of features including the ability to surf the Web by drawing gestures on a smartphone’s touchscreen. When surfing the Web on a smartphone, most of us stick with the browser that came with our handset. That experience can be clunky, though, and a slew of mobile browsers are trying to break into a market dominated by Apple and Google. It’s a struggle reminiscent of the “browser wars” of the ’90s, in which Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer fought for dominance on desktop computers—and also of the more recent battle for market share among IE, Firefox, and Google’s Chrome browser on desktops and laptops.
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