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what's up everyone John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo here I have a smartphone glued to my hand for many more hours a day than I choose to admit and more than my wife would like me to have I'm primarily sending email but a lot of these things I'm doing is work based and I'm doing that in a browser on iOS I've always just used Safari I know a lot of you out there have used Chrome but safaris what have you since what I've gotten used to but that does not mean that it's the best browser out there the folks at opera asked me to take a look at opera coasts and they wanted me to be as honest as I could which I always am so I want to talk about the positives and negatives about the third-party browser and help you decide if it might replace Safari or Chrome for you guys let's go and take a look avoid just by default use Safari on iOS not just like it's the best because it's just always there and it worked well enough I've been using opera Coast's as my only browser now for five days and there's a lot to like about it but not everything is perfect let me go ahead and open it up and I'll walk you through it first thing you'll notice is that it looks totally different than any other browser that you might have ever seen there is a iPad version as well that looks just as gorgeous and of course one optimized for the iPhone so there is a bit of a learning curve here it's very different than what you get with ordinary browsers might be wondering where the address bar is and why all these tiles and things are here when you've never used a browser before I want to walk you bit to the UI which I've come to really appreciate is very well done I've actually become very intuitive so first to search the web it's pretty simple just go ahead and slide that down and go ahead and search for anything you want what I like about it is they're sort of giving news right in front of you as you're searching so it might not want it but it's nice to sort of see something new and usually takes advantage of unused real estate while you're typing so you can type a question or URL whatever it might be let's go ahead and jump right in look at TechnoBuffalo so we'll type TechnoBuffalo if you search a site before it'll start to populate and it doesn't just pull up a list it gives you the typical sort of written options there but also give you a title format which I really like if you don't have an icon it'll make one for you and telling you that it's being searched with Google so quick search go ahead and jump into Tecna buffle for example it'll load the site you get a bit of a splash screen as it's pulling up and the site is there and things load very quickly and we'll talk about the SunSpider score and stuff a little bit later using it though just like using any browser you can scroll around scrolling is really smooth on it depending on what you're using with the UI might look a bit unfamiliar here so you've got an arrow you've got a grid and then you've got sort of a smaller line of icons so I'll show you at each one of these is going to do on the left is gonna sort of let you know what you're looking at and also pull up your share opps and sharing is really important top or Coast and they've done a great job making sharing really really easy and also you'll see with opera Coase things just look really pretty let's go ahead and push that arrow it'll tell you what's that you're visiting it'll pop even a little thumbnail from an image in there and you could share it via any of the social networks that you choose hit the X will close that this is just gonna take you home serves as your home button and you go ahead and jump right in we'll go back to TechnoBuffalo and the one on the right is going to give you your cabs if you look at that well look just like sort of a row of rectangles is actually a visual representation of what your tablet look like so if you want to go ahead and close one you just go ahead and swipe right up and they'll close the tab for you it's a very simple and easy to understand UI if you want to browse previous pages or back pages simple swipe gestures will do that for you if you swipe that way you'll go back to your previous site if you want to swipe to helps the direction and go back to the site you are at it's again very simple and relatively intuitive let's go back and home I can show you some other cool stuff that you can do here inside of Opera Coast so first these pages are gonna be here by default the Facebook Twitter YouTube reddit on the rest that kind of stuff you can choose to remove them or not the pages you've just visited will show up down here below so all of your tabs will show up in little squares so if you want to move one up and go ahead and select it move it right up and they'll stay there permanently if you want to get rid of it you can do that as well you can drop here to delete so drag it up to the top delete it and it's going to be gone from your history what I like about opera Koch's that's pretty much always in private mode if you delete that tablet just to the techno buffalo it deletes all the history you've had with that site so if secure is important to you bear in mind this is almost always the equivalent of being incognito mode as long as you delete that tab then there is no history of you ever visiting that site something I really appreciated another feature that was important to me for a browser to have was ability to have handoff certainly with iOS and Yosemite a hand-up doesn't work here just like any other handoff capable application we launched got bluetooth on on your computer it'll work pretty well as I mentioned I wanted to check what the SunSpider score was in that chest JavaScript and how well a browser can run JavaScript in that case it's the lower the score the better it's got a score of 1296 whereas Safari got a score in the 300 so by that you might think Safari is gonna be you know three to four times faster that was not the case this loaded page is really really fast and I became to really appreciate the UI and how well video played inside of the application on how well everything worked very personal choice it might be one you've been used to maybe you like to try new things I've really appreciated opera coast for the way it looks in the way it performs it's a beautiful looking application and I could appreciate the design effort that went into it design language that was used I really liked it viewing all the icons and on my tab is no squares I like the way it encapsulated things I liked how I could sort of view a quick snap other side I was in and share it very easily on these social media that I choose I also really liked that it was always in private mode I could swipe away and my history would be erased with it not that I'm doing I think scandalous but I just like someone should take my phone or anything that it's all sort of hidden something that I've come to like with Opera Coast so again browsers very personal choice if you want to try something new I think you kind of owe it yourself to try the free opera coast not gonna cost you anything give it a shot it does have a bit of a learning curve or like I mentioned so try it for at least a day day and a half to get to use it I don't think I really disappoint I think you really like it and for me I think Opera Coast might just replace them all thank you guys for watching another TechnoBuffalo video I hope you enjoyed we love consumer electronics here and if you are is passionate about them as we are hit the big subscribe button we've got new videos come at you every day we talk about phones tablets laptops and everything in between and if you like video games check us out at twitch where we play video games literally not very well at twitch.tv slash TechnoBuffalo I'll links are down below