iRider: The forgotten browser 16 Sep 2008

If you think that Google Chrome has revolutionised the experience of browsing, then you might want to take a look at iRider. When it was introduced five years ago, it was light years ahead Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer in terms of its user interface and functionality...and today, it pretty much still is! It's therefore surprising that few people outside of the developer community have heard about it.

iRider's key features include a "visual page list" (a visual map of all the pages you are/have been working with); "surf-ahead" (download pages in the background, while you do something else); open several pages at once (and flip through them with a Next button); search in multiple search engines at the same time; pin pages (to prevent you from accidentally closing them); and copy a block of text containing several URLs and paste it into iRider to open all referenced pages (iRider ignores all of the non-URL text). But better than all of this is that it's lightening fast and you can open tons of pages without it slowing down to a crawl...