Web3 - Opera Unveils Dedicated Crypto Browser for iOS Users

Under its "Crypto Browser Project," multi-platform web browser Opera has unveiled iOS version of its dedicated crypto browser that offers more users direct, user-friendly access to Web3 services. In 2020, an estimated 1 billion people use iPhones worldwide.

The launch of iOS version of crypto browser follows initial integration of the Crypto Browser Project with Windows, Mac, and Android and looks to take mass adoption of Web3 to new levels. Earlier in January this year, Opera unveiled beta release of its crypto browser for Mac, Windows, and Android.

The iOS version of Opera crypto browser also boasts the ability to restore any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible Wallet with the native Opera Wallet, allowing users to integrate their existing assets and balances into their Crypto Browser setup.

Late last month, Opera, announced that it has integrated support for several major blockchain ecosystems, including Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, Ronin, Celo, Nervos, IXO and Bitcoin.

Norway-based Opera originally launched the first web browser with an integrated cryptocurrency wallet and basic Web3 support back in 2018. In 2019, Opera also released a gaming-oriented version of the browser called "Opera GX" and in 2021 Opera released a mobile version of Opera GX iOS and Android.

Opera's focus for the Crypto Browser Project is a simplified user experience across decentralized apps (dapps), games, and metaverse platforms. The browser also features a news and data aggregator named "Crypto Corner," a bespoke start page focused on live crypto information and updates, crypto asset prices and gas fees, as well as crypto events, airdrops, and even podcasts.

Jorgen Arnesen, EVP Mobile at Opera, said: "The interest in Web3 is continuing to grow. The Opera Crypto Browser Project was built to simplify the Web3 user experience that has often been bewildering for mainstream users. Opera believes Web3 has to be easy to use in order to reach its full potential and a mass adoption."

7 Web Browsers in Race For The Next Number #1 Browser

Web browsers serve as the platform through which users from across the globe access the contents of the internet. As of March 2021, an estimated 51 Crore (5.1 billion) people used a browser, according to Internet World Stats.

As of June 2021, the Google Chrome browser accounted for around 65.32% of global market share for internet browsers. Apple’s Safari browser was the second most popular internet browser around the world, accounting for over 18% of market share. Apart from these two, no other browser controlled more than 5% of the overall market share.

We have shortlisted seven of the new-age browsers, that can be strong contenders to Chrome as a tool to access Internet. 

Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi is an answer to browser fans requesting a more robust, powerful browser. It features impressive customization and access to Chrome's vast library of extensions. Its a fast browser while being light on RAM consumption compared to other browsers.

Vivaldi’s latest update on desktop and notebooks lets you expand tab groups with Accordion Tabs and run browser commands in a sequence with a single shortcut.

Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner was also the co-founder of Opera, one of the earliest web browsers to have features like pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing. The level of customization and power-user features that set Opera apart are present today in Vivaldi as well, along with plenty more.

Vivaldi 2.0 is available for Desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and Android devices.

FEATURES -

• Built-in Mail client
• Mouse Gestures,
• Tab Grouping
• Screen Capture
• Ad-blocker
• Floating Side Panels
• Resizable Split-Screen Tabs
• Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
• Web Panel suggestions based on browsing history
  
  

SigmaOS 

SigmaOS is a new type of macOS browser made for work. It's as fast as Safari, and it's built around workspaces and multitasking. Like Slack, in SigmaOS, your browser activity is separated into workspaces - one workspace per project. This means your workspaces and pages are synced across your devices.

Besides, SigmaOS lets you log in to different accounts in your different workspaces. You can do so by clicking on the settings gear when creating a workspace and enabling "Separate Cookies".

FEATURES -

• Send webpages to colleagues & friends, directly into their browser
• Split screen for multitasking
• Syncing workspaces and pages across devices.

Sidekick Browser

Sidekick is a new browser based on Chromium. Designed to be the fastest online work experience, Sidekick's UX is built around the most popular web apps, supports multiple logins, and uses workspaces to keep tab clutter under control.

The browser has an AI-based tab suspender so that Sidekick uses the same amount of memory whether you have 10 open tabs or 100. It also saves memory by automatically suspending tabs that you don't need at the moment. The best thing about Sidekick is that it has built-in search bar with a single shortcut. With this, you can search across all your apps, tabs, and workspaces in seconds.

Sidekick’s also allows to let you work from inside apps that live in the browser, rather than scattered across multiple windows and tabs. Apps like Slack, Skype and WhatsApp can be pinned in the sidebar in a vertical stack where you can easily find and switch between them. It also has support for multiple logins, granular notification controls and the ability to search across all these third-party apps (it offers 'hundreds' currently but says users can add custom adds "which would function just like a bookmark") right from the browser.

FEATURES

• AI Based Tab suspension
• Improved RAM Management
• Block data-grabbing ads

Blisk

Bowser For Web Developers

Blisk is a Chromium-based browser for Web developers that enables features that your regular browser cannot. You can see how your website or application work on different display resolution, you can prototype, test your product and get notified if there is a bug to fix.

This browser enables to build your website on desktop and mobile simultaneously. It has set of preinstalled phones and tablets with specific screen resolution, pixel ratio, user agent and touch event support. Mobile and desktop follow each other by URL and even scroll position. Page auto-refresh feature enables to refresh pages automatically every time you modify the code. Developer tools now are available for both mobile and desktop simultaneously.

FEATURES

• More than 50 devices integrated, including iOS, Android, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, Samsung Galaxy and more.
• Place devices next to each other and compare the UI on mobile and desktop simultaneously
• Built-in Error Monitor, to immediately detect issues (like JavaScript errors) when executing a new piece of code in Blisk. 
• Screenshots or video recorder, with automatic upload to Blisk's secure cloud storage.
• Launch Blisk from Command Prompt or Terminal.

Sizzy

The browser for designers and developers, Sizzy is to save time and increase the productivity of designers and developers. The browser allows to you to work on your website and instantly preview the changes on multiple devices at once. Sizzy simulates the viewport and user agent of each device, so the results should be the same as what you would see on a real device.

However, Sizzy cannot simulate different browser rendering engines, so there's a chance that there might be some minor differences when testing on a real device.

FEATURES

• Simulates the device frame, the UI for the browser & OS
• DevTools, it allow you to inspect multiple devices at once.
• Debugging Panel - The tabbed panel docked on the right side in Sizzy browser. It contains a bunch of useful tabs with tools that will help you with debugging your website.
• Customizable UI
• A/B Testing
• Universal Inspect Element which allows you to inspect all devices at once

Cake Browser

The world's first swipeable mobile web browser

Cake is a faster, more private mobile browser with free VPN. Cake skips over the search results list to take you straight to the content you want—then you simply swipe to see the next result.

With Cake, enter your search and then swipe through results from multiple online search services, videos, images and shopping. The browser has incorporated a fresh new approach to RSS that essentially allows you to follow your favorite sites and get the latest updates from them, whether they are blogs, news outlets or any other type of site that has an RSS feed.

FEATURES -

• Built-in Ads & Tracker blocking
• Free VPN
• Automatically informs websites you visit that you do not want to be tracked
• Force websites to be loaded via HTTPS 

Brave

Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which distinguishes itself from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. It also provides users the choice to turn on optional ads that pay users for their attention in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency.

Recently, Brave built its search engine out of Tailcat, which it acquired earlier this year from Germany's Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat was designed to deliver search results without logging user activity or creating profiles.

FEATURES -

• Ad blocking
• Fingerprinting prevention*
• Make a playlist in Brave browser
• Brave Firewall + VPN
• Earn Cryptocurrency (BAT) by viewing private ads

World’s 1st Interactive Smartphone Browser Popshot Launches in India

Popshot, the world’s first ever interactive browser built for smartphones, launches in India. Popshot is a smart app that changes the way people explore, share, and save the web through a first-of-its-kind interactive screenshot feature. This promises to redefine the users’ digital capabilities in exploring, bookmarking and sharing content by making it more visual, organized and direct. Unlike traditional browsers, Popshot has been designed to accelerate exploring through data-saving capabilities, offering users the best in-browsing experience. Popshot is now available to Android and iOS users worldwide and aims at improving personalisation and discoverability of content for the ever-growing digital community through a host of smart & interactive features.

Customized for India, Popshot promises to introduce a new benchmark to the browsing experience especially when browsers on smartphones have seen no significant innovation since its inception. Understanding India’s vast low-end phone market, Popshot has been designed as a lite app, accessible on over 10,0000 phone models with a minimum specification requirement of 1GB of RAM and above. To India’s trend in capturing and sharing screenshots, Popshot consumes significantly lesser storage by replacing boring static full resolution screengrabs with compressed interactive screenshots.

Developed as a lite and faster alternative to traditional browsers, Popshot introduces users the ability to customize their own digital playground for instant access to saved and new content, encouraging a whole new movement for users to live in the now. To maximize engagement, the user interface has been designed across 3 key in-app tabs of Friends | Personal | Explore. The Explore is the primary landing page, where users can not only browse, but also create customizable ‘popshots’ to share with their contacts or save it for themselves. In the Personal section, users can access all their saved ‘popshots’ such as the most frequented webpages, favourite product shots, videos, interesting content pages, etc. and gain direct instant access to them through the interactive screenshots deep linking feature. This ensures users don’t lose track of their pages or progress when browsing online. What’s more, is that all this content is inside the app, without occupying memory in the phone gallery, allowing users to save as many ‘popshots’ as they like. Lastly, the Friends section is a place where content shared or received from friends resides in an effectively indexed manner and is ready to be accessed through smart search around a contact’s name, website, and keywords.

On the launch of the app, Marc Miance, CEO, Popshot, commented, “We say - Save the Web - because first of all, Popshot literally does that. But, more importantly, we think the future of the Web is through our smartphones. We want the digital world to live up to its original promise, granting people the ability to mine the web’s rich seams of information and entertainment and capture its wealth. We also want to make the digital genuinely social, removing the technical constraints that prevent people from sharing in a meaningful way. A breakthrough was necessary.”

Anish Mulani, India CEO, Popshot, exclaimed his excitement on the launch of the app in India, “Today, we live in an extremely fast-paced world where consumers are always on-the-go and looking for digital content or solutions to enhance their daily social experiences at the tap of a button. With an ever-increasing number of smartphone users in India, millennials are constantly searching for connectivity to make everyday choices – what to watch, where to travel next, how to learn a new skill, etc. In the digital domain, where we are all explorers first, Popshot is positioned to feature as the future of browsers which will enable users to bring their digital world together, through a faster and more innovative browsing experience – essentially making the smartphone into a smarter phone.’’

Browsers are the gateway to digital domain and Popshot is looking at expanding the use of browsers by making it more engaging and interactive for current and newer generations of digital explorers and social media creators. Through the industry-pioneering technology of interactive deep-linked screenshots, Popshot is setting a new experiential benchmark in empowering users to elevate their digital journeys and becoming global content curators in a mobile-first world.

Start exploring today: https://get.popshot.app/PR
User reference video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkTSWqDDcg&t=5s
Reference images: https://we.tl/t-OO2xkaREUn

About Popshot

Powered by a vision to encourage creative global connectivity, today, Popshot is the world’s first socially interactive browser and made in India and France. Officially starting their community journey in India in 2018, Popshot has been focused in its constant pursuit to develop an innovative social platform that aims to enhance global communication by encouraging freedom of exploration, expression, and discovery, with a mission to enhance user’s daily digital experience. Popshot enables users to easily browse, save, and share the web with friends and family, all over the world, through optimized navigation and creative social sharing features. Popshot made its official public debut at the World Blogger Awards 2019 as a key partner of the event, reiterating their commitment in powering and supporting new-age digital storytelling.