On: Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers

[mnx]

And can't you just install an alternative browser? do none exist for the ipad?

[Yetanfou → mnx]

Nothing official, as Apple only allows browser shells (which use the iOS version of WebKit), no complete browsers.

[kryptiskt → Yetanfou]

Opera Mini does the rendering server side so that isn't beholden to that rule.

[gknoy → mnx]

When I tried to install a recent Chrome on my in-laws' ipad, it required a newer version of IOS than was available for that model of Ipad.

[joshuacc → mnx]

While there are other "browsers," they are really just different user interfaces wrapped around the same Safari rendering engine.

[chrisdevereux → mnx]

Most likely the 'crash' is the browser being terminated due to low memory. Alternative browsers would have the same problem.