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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 939
- Downloads last week: 3
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you occasionally grow tired of all the standardized bells and whistles and feature-cluttered toolbars of your everyday browser, this pared-down browser may offer a simplified change of pace. However, we encountered an issue each time we opened it.
Pocket Browser bills itself as the worlds simplest browser, and is designed for use with USB drives or other mobile media. As a simplified browser, it offers only a URL field and five buttons that cover the basics: forward, back, stop, and inexplicably two Home buttons. Both Home buttons take you to the Pocket Browsers home page. The black-and-red color scheme for the browsers skin is a bit amateurish looking, but that's the least of its problems.
During our tests, whenever we visited the Pocket Browser home page, both Internet Explorer and Firefox would spontaneously launch windows at advertising sites. This is an aggravating problem. The tool offers no menus for setting preferences, so you can't change the home page.
Otherwise, this free browser performed fine in our tests, responding quickly to our clicks. Anyone wanting a trimmed-down browser offering just the basics may want to check out Pocket Browser, but watch out for the sudden advertising blitz whenever you launch this tool.
Publisher's description
From Shadow Slash Teknologies :With just a little memory to consume. Handy for use in your Floppy Disk or USB Flash Drive. With only one file to cover it all up it IS the Worlds browser. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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Version: Pocket Browser 0.0.0.1
"Give it a miss unless your desperate to save memory"
Pros: Now't
Cons: You have to load on each occation of use. The peramiters are none existant and it's slow. If your so short on memory that you have to use this, wow, buy a new updated comp/laptop.
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