Dolphin Browser is a mobile browser for the Android operating system and iOS

IOS

iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

 developed by Mobotap. It was one of the first alternate browsers for the Android platform that introduced support for multi-touch

Multi-touch

In computing, multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface...

 gestures. Dolphin HD uses the Webkit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

 engine and the native platform rendering capabilities, which allows for a small disk footprint

Memory footprint

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.
It is capable of running Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

, but it can have problems with video streaming.

Versions

There is a free ad-supported version of Dolphin and a paid version without advertising. There is an advanced version called Dolphin Browser HD for Android 2.0

Android version history

The version history of the Android operating system began with the release of Android 1.0 in September 2008. Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and has seen a number of updates since its original release. These updates to the base operating...

 or later.

Privacy concerns

In October 2011, privacy concerns were raised about Dolphin browser after it was discovered that all URLs loaded in Dolphin HD were being relayed as plain text to a remote server , a process described by Ars Technica

Ars Technica

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 as 'an unambiguous breach of privacy'.
This breach was patched in the next update.

External links

• Dolphin Browser HD on the Android Market
  Android Market
  Android Market is an online software store developed by Google for Android OS devices. Its gateway is an application program called "Market", preinstalled on most Android devices, allows users to browse and download mobile apps published by third-party developers...