A4 and earlier: Photon ($5.49 CA)
This browser is very fast and light on resourcws, the last version was made in 2015 and still works on 5.1.1. A small problem I noticed is that it has a small problem loading Google.com but I found a fix for it: Go to var/mobile/applications/Photon/library/preferencesand tap com.appverse.browseriphone.plist, go to the property list viewer and scroll down until you see "deviceua" go ahead and replace that user agent with "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25"
After that, web pages will load better.
A5 and later: Dolphin Pro ($3.99 CA)
This browser is a bit heavier than Photon but it is more modern, the newest version that supports IOS 6 is from 2016. It has a built in adblocker and is overall very fast, it is somewhat usable on an iPhone 4, but it lags a bit.
All devices: Puffin web browser
Uses a web server and updated webkit.
Speeding up these browsers: Nitrous ($0.99 US)
Nitrous is a tweak on Cydia, I highly recommend using this if you are using any IOS below 8, my scores tripled after using it. (Doesn't work with puffin)
This browser is very fast and light on resourcws, the last version was made in 2015 and still works on 5.1.1. A small problem I noticed is that it has a small problem loading Google.com but I found a fix for it: Go to var/mobile/applications/Photon/library/preferencesand tap com.appverse.browseriphone.plist, go to the property list viewer and scroll down until you see "deviceua" go ahead and replace that user agent with "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25"
After that, web pages will load better.
A5 and later: Dolphin Pro ($3.99 CA)
This browser is a bit heavier than Photon but it is more modern, the newest version that supports IOS 6 is from 2016. It has a built in adblocker and is overall very fast, it is somewhat usable on an iPhone 4, but it lags a bit.
All devices: Puffin web browser
Uses a web server and updated webkit.
Speeding up these browsers: Nitrous ($0.99 US)
Nitrous is a tweak on Cydia, I highly recommend using this if you are using any IOS below 8, my scores tripled after using it. (Doesn't work with puffin)
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