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Chrome on the iPhone and the iPad is pretty damn good. OK, it might be slightly slower than Mobile Safari, thanks to the way Apple keeps its Nitro Javascript engine to itself, but it’s better than nothing. Now you can make it your default browser with a quick little tweak.
Obviously you’ll need a jailbroken phone for this — what, you didn’t think Apple would actually let you dump Safari if it hand any choice over the matter, did you? Then all you’ll need to do is fire up Cydia and search for an app cunningly called “BrowserChooser”.
Open BrowserChooser and tap Chrome to set it as your default browser — that’s it. Every time you click a link anywhere within iOS, Chrome will launch instead of mobile Safari. Now, if Apple would just gift Chrome with the Nitro engine, we’d really have a Chrome to love on our iPhones. [iMore]
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Can’t find it. Found Browser Changer – did you mean that?
No, there is one called BrowserChooser, but I’m sure Browser Changer will work just fine too
If your in the mood to screw Apple, better to get an Android phone, preferable a Galaxy Nexus, so you can get Jellybean.
not in the USA… where its banned
Yeah… I can see it now “I’ll dump this 24 month contract I’m locked into and pay a small fortune in order to screw Apple”. o.O
If you sell your iPhone, you can probably raise most (if not all) of the money to buy a G-Nex off contract, you can keep the contract.
do you earn commission for Google?
No, the warm glow I get from rescuing people from Apple is payment enough
I don’t like Apple, and i really have nothing against Google, but the constant barrage of people from either Apple or Google to switch to their ecosystems pushes me away more than anything else.
Is it worth it? I mean, if it is slower.
Yes, well, I like it better. It’s not that much slower for general browsing. Some sites are pretty tedious to load. But the whole thing is just a better experience for a Chrome desktop user like myself.
That is what I thought. I find quite handy having Chrome synched between all the devices.
so you use chrome on your iphone? even though it is slower than safari?
Why?
I now use browserChanger purely because of Chrome and here’s why:
- Sync with all my desktop browsers
- View recently closed, currently open tabs on other devices
- Incognito mode
- Has a “Request Desktop Site” button, I don’t know if anyone has tried to view Twitter’s full site on iPhone/iPad but you have to jump through a few hoops.
- Changing Tabs is far better than Safari
Couldn’t care less about it being slightly slower.
Damnit! Not willing to jailbreak my new iPad anytime soon >.<
I’ve been using the Chrome release on my Sony tab and xperia Ray and find it to be buggier than beta releases. Going back to tabs causes it to freeze occasionally, pages stopping loading and freezing the app. It also takes a huge chunk of the crap internal storage SE stuck in my Ray
stock ICS browser does the job at the moment and syncs my desktop bookmarks.
I know it’s an IOS chrome story, but hey
Microsoft had an antitrust trial in 1998 because of the anti-competitive way they pushed Internet Explorer. Now Apple are being similarly anti-competitive with iOS Safari. Why have they not been brought to justice over this?
Because Microsoft don’t designe and manufacture the PC hardware that Windows is designed to run on, the courts decided that people should be free to choose their defualt browser, media player etc.
The difference with Apple is that they DO design & manufacture the hardware, so the software and everything that comes with it can be argued to be a product design choice. Simple terms, dont like Safari? You don’t have to buy Apple.
Meh, I haven’t figured out a one touch refresh button yet for chrome (only Menu -> refresh), until I do I’m stuck on Safari. Here is hoping one of you lot knows something I don’t