Feature highlights:

1. Tabs on Top
It’s very easy to open, switch and close tabs.
2. Ominibox
Type search keywords or URL in one box.
3. Extra space for the web content
The address bar will be hidden automatically when you scroll down the page, so you get the the extra space for web content. To show the address bar, just tap the tab again.
4. Read later and Reading list (Offline reading)
One click to save a page to reading list, so you can view them offline. One click to remove a page from the reading list. It’s fast to get pages in and out.
5. Share to different places
Share the page to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Diigo, Instapaper etc.
6. Context search
Search from context menu directly.
7. Open link in new tab
Long press a link and choose different open options.

What’s in next version?
1) Add .com button
2) Auto Scroll to the top when tap status bar
3) other features
4) Bug fix: Only 10 bookmarks are displayed in the bookmark popover window.

As outlined in the app’s release notes, changes made in the update include:

• Updated design with a fresh new look and feel
• Super smooth pinch-to-zoom and panning
• Support for iPhone 4 retina display, iPad, and iPad 2 devices
• Direct share on Facebook, Twitter, and My Opera
• Open new page in background tab
• Improved international font support for Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other non-latin languages
• Speed: Up to 6 times faster browsing, especially when on slower or crowded networks
• Data Savings: Compress up to 90% of data traffic
• Speed Dial: Get to your favorite Web sites with a single tap
• Visual Tabs: See all your open Web pages and quickly switch between them
• Opera Link: Synchronize your bookmarks and Speed Dial with a Desktop PC or other mobile phone

SkyFire for iPhone is an alternative iOS browser built on top of Safari and WebKit, so it feels very much like mobile Safari. It does however contain some amazing additions. Namely: Flash-support. To make this possible, SkyFire’s servers sit between you and the website you visit, and convert Adobe Flash content to iOS-friendly HTML5.

It should be available before Christmas for $4.99.

There’s been lots of exciting progress with Couch Surfer over the past week, most notably being fluid playback of HTML5 video. Couch Surfer is still a bit rough around the edges, but as you can see in the video below we’re getting close. (Note: the pause in the video is just to showcase the control bar that is available during playback).

Take a look at the demo video below. We will let you know when the browser does become available.

HTML5 Video on AppleTV 2G from Fire Core, LLC on Vimeo.

According to CNNMoney, Skyfire will be available for download at 9 a.m. ET on Thursday for $2.99.

To get around Apple’s restriction, Skyfire came up with an innovative solution: When users click on a page that contains Flash video, Skyfire’s servers download, render and translate the video into HTML5, which is a Web standard that iOS devices support. Skyfire then displays a thumbnail that users can click on to stream the video from its servers. “We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages,” said Jeffrey Glueck, Skyfire’s CEO.

You can learn more about the browser here.

Blackberry’s browsers have always lagged behind those of Google Android and Apple iPhone. However, the peer pressure of the market has forced the makers of BlackBerry to design a browser that can give neck and neck competition to other browsers. The race for the best mobile browser is on and BlackBerry has miles to cover.

The new browser for BlackBerry would be capable of handling AJAX, CSS and HTML5. RIM has claimed that the new browser would be more network efficient than other browsers.

[ via shuttervoice.com ]