6 reasons the iRider browser is worth downloadingcustomer adventures, add-ins and toolbars — by TDavid @ 6:31 am PST
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I mentioned the irider browser on the Script School Radio show yesterday. Of all the new and different browsers I’ve looked at, this one caught my attention enough to download it.
Here’s 6 things I’ve found useful (so far) about this browser:
- You can one-click through books, as irider calls them, and a list of sites you frequently visit will open in a convenient, adjustable pane on the left hand side of the screen with thumbnails of the website.
- You can search multiple websites easily through the special irider search menu.
- The ability to pin and unpin certain sites in the thumbnail preview menu along the left hand pane and conveniently close them. You can click one button and close all the unpinned sites, therefore making it easy to keep important sites in front of you.
- How you can read one site and if you find a link you are interested in then you can right click it and it will load in the background so that when you are done reading the article or page you can click to the link you clicked and it is immediately available.
- The ability to open many links on a page in new thumbnailed windows at one time.
- Zoom in and out on any web page by holding down the CTRL + or CTRL -. Useful for guys like me with not so good eyesight and those pages with small text and graphics.
You can download and try it out for free (30 days) and in fact I encourage folks reading this to do just that and use it in tandem with your favorite browser. It ain’t perfect of course, there are features that you will miss in your current browser, but it is useful as sort of a complimentary working browser. There’s no spyware or ads in the version I downloaded, nor is the download version crippled in any way feature-wise. The price is $29.95 as of this writing (2.06).
Will iRider take off? Hmm …
Update 7/11/03: Related review by Kingsley
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I’ve posted my review of iRider at http://kingsley.blog-city.com/readblog.cfm?BID=134418 . I’ve linked to your review from mine and would appreciate a link back . Ciao
Comment by Kingsley — July 10, 2003 @ 11:58 am PST
[…] My hmm I have downloaded Opera a few times but haven’t ever used (at least that I can remember anyway). It wasn’t the fact that it was a pay browser that bothered me because I have actually paid for another browser called iRider. In fact, that was one of the very first things I wrote about on this blog (the 2nd post here ever< ?a>). iRider is up to version 2.21 and I still think it’s worthy of a download but admittedly I don’t use it very much these days, some 2+ years later. One of the things I like about iRider is it seems happy being a niche player and doesn’t mind the commercial price tag. […]
Pingback by Make You Go Hmm: » Opera goes free — banners and licensing begone! — September 20, 2005 @ 6:31 am PST
[…] Been noticing many Google search requests here for my irider review, so I thought I’d update you on how that browser is doing for me. Yesterday, I registered irider and I’ve encouraged my webmaster friend Kaiser to register it as well. Noticed that theludwigs also gives irider thumbs up. If you haven’t downloaded the irider browser and given it a 21 day trial, I suggest doing so now. It isn’t feature crippled in any way during this 21 day trial, so you can see if it is something that truly can/will make you more productive. […]
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