fgBrowser is a fullscreen, multitouch web browser that comes in a regular version and a private version. I was originally confused about the difference between the two versions but it essentially comes down to how history and bookmarks are treated. If you want a fullscreen browser that remembers the last page you were on and keeps a full history of everywhere you went, use the original app; if you want a fullscreen browser that always opens on the same page and only records the history you tell it to, use the private version. Both of them have different benefits in different situations.
Why use fgBrowser instead of Safari? fgBrowser gives you more visible space (about 40% more); it's faster; it remembers all the pages you've been to; it can sort bookmarks/history based on number of times you've visited them or the most recent visit; it shows you the favicons of the bookmarks; it can lock screen orientation, so you can read while laying down.
It's very important that you know the controls before you spend much time with it because there are no menus or hints until you've gestured in some way:
* 3 finger touch opens bookmark screen
* 2 finger swipe up locks orientation
* 2 finger swipe down brings up menu
* 2 finger swipe left goes back
* 2 finger swipe right goes forward
Touching 3 fingers anywhere on the screen brings up the bookmark screen. This screen lets you go to a url, search google, and view your history and bookmarks. In the private version, viewing your bookmarks requires a code that you have to set first.
Swiping with 2 fingers left or right goes backwards or forwards in history, respectively.
Swiping with 2 fingers up locks and unlocks the screen orientation. This feature is great when you're lying down and want the text to stay upright relative to your head. The swipe up, left, and right gestures all give you visual cues.
Swiping with 2 fingers down shows the page menu. Here you can add "favs" (bookmarks), email the page, open it in safari, or reload it. In the private version reload is replaced with set as homepage.
The loading symbol is a spinner in the lower right. I really like how it can tell you something is happening without taking up a lot of your screen.
Both applications' settings are available through the Settings app. There you can enable tap to scroll to beginning or end (Safari only supports going back to beginning), choose a default language for the google searches, and enable rotation remembering (you can lock the rotation to horizontal and it will remember across application restarts, great for an always horizontal browser).
While this is a great browser that I will probably use to replace Safari in most cases, it's not without problems: there's no way to exit out of a url or google search without activating it ie. if you accidentally touch the url bar, you have to go somewhere; the private version can't easily reload a page; some things end up rendering differently than Safari (the google search text x, for example); there's no tab support--I expect this isn't high on the developer's priority list, it almost goes against the purpose.
Overall this is a great web browser that will see a lot of use on my phone.
