Opera has been doing quite well with its browsers for mobile devices and has now unveiled a new browser for Apple's pride and joy iPad and iPad mini tablets, the Coast. Aimed to make browsing the new feel the same as using an app, Coast will bring some neat features to the browser experience.

The Coast will pack a swipe feature for home screen as well as a tile-base UI that looks a lot like an app menu rather than a browser home page. It also replaces the standard browser page design with content, while browser specific buttons like home and history are located beneath the page that you are currently viewing. The rest of the "buttons" and navigation like forward and back are handled with swiping and seach bar is the only thing that sits at the top above the favorite pages.

The new Coast browser certainly looks good and according to what we can see so far, its aim to deliver browsing in a different and unique way certainly has its merits. You can add additional favorites by simply dragging and dropping it on home screen and it even has a special security engine, something that Opera has been known for, that constantly consult the online database for unsafe sites.

Considering that it has started as a pet-project of Opera Project Manager Huib Kelinhout, which took him seven years to develop, it certainly looks good and shows that browsers do not need to be cluttered with bars, buttons and similar things in order to bring a good and secure browsing experience.





Source: Opera.com.