UCWEB 7 is out of Beta.  The official release is in Chinese only but, Manojr “Mannuforall” Tiwari  has done an unofficial English translation which is available on his blog. A release announcement with screenshots and a list of features (in Chinese) is  here (Google translation). I’m hard pressed to see any significant differences between this version and the leaked pre-release version I reported on last week.  Hopefully there are some bug fixes.  I did notice minor translation related differences in … Continue reading →

UCWEB guru “Jbpseudo“, sent me a link an English translation of a leaked version (7.02.3) of the upcoming UCWEB 7 browser.  The main change since UCWEB 7 Beta 2, which I covered 2 weeks ago, is that it now offers the equivalent what Opera calls “Desktop View” where pages are formatted more or less as they are in desktop browsers, with horizontal scrolling required to see the full width of the page.  In UCWEB it’s known as “Zoom Mode” and … Continue reading →

Last week UCWEB released a new Beta of their namesake product, a fast server based browser similar in concept to Opera Mini and Bolt but with some great additional features including tabbed browsing and the ability to copy text from web pages.  The new release is version 6.6 and is only available in Chinese from official sources. Fortuanately for English speakers, the Java version of  the Beta has been translated by the same two UCWEB Forum members, New88 and Mannuforall, who … Continue reading →