I reviewed Life Web Browser for iPad last month and pointed out that while the idea was good, the developers needed to focus on stability and speed improvements, big fixes and tweaks to the user experience. That’s exactly what they’ve been doing for the past 24 days, “even without sleeping”. Actually, I quite believe it.
The new 1.1 version features an all new core memory management system, one of the biggest disappointments in the first release. The app felt slow and clunky sometimes, now it’s much smoother. Other features include a better state saving, keyboard tweaks, queue improvements.
The app is available at $1.99, a fairly good price for the innovative way of browsing the internet on the iPad the app carries along. Go download it here, check out the presentation video and full 1.1 changelog after the break.
New features:
- All new core memory management system to handle multiple websites much better. This new engine also fixes the random refreshing issue.
- (Customer request) Life now saves the websites you go to as you go to them rather than after you press the home button. If you go to websites A.B.C.D.E. and E crashes, Life remembers A.B.C.D.
- (Customer request) .com button added to extension bar of keyboard so you can use the .com button anywhere whether it’s a URL or username
- (Customer request) Queued pages are now the priority downloaded websites.
- (Customer request) URL Scheme - life://
Bugs fixed:
- (Customer Request) International URL’s now work properly
- Improved “Queue” performance on Facebook.com
- (Customer Request) Random Refreshes [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) If you click an App Store link and reopen Life, it’ll keep opening the App Store link [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) If you Google something, click a link, go back, Google something else, click a link, go back, you would see the first thing you Googled [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) YouTube videos sometimes crash when going to full screen and quickly rotate [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) When in email pop up, if you tap the “to:” and start typing, the “to:” row moves up and you have to swipe down to see it again [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) When closing a queued site that is a YouTube video, the audio keeps playing [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) Gizmodo.com go to page buttons don’t go to the page requested [FIXED]
- (Customer Request) Quicktime MP3 downloads refreshing issue [FIXED]
