Puffin Browser

Puffin Browser
Developer(s) CloudMosa
Stable release(s)
7.0.6.18027 (Android), 5.2.2 (iOS)
Preview release(s)
7.5.2.286 Beta (Windows 7/10)
Development status Active
Operating system Android, iOS, Windows (beta), Android TV
Website www.puffinbrowser.com

Puffin Browser is a web browser released by CloudMosa for mobile operating systems Android, iOS, Windows and Android TV. It was released sometime before October 2013 and it uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on encrypted cloud servers to improve webpage loading performance and reduce bandwidth use. As a result of the pages being processed on cloud servers, the IP address reflects the cloud server's IP address and some websites might detect the browser to be a proxy server. For instance, users cannot edit Wikipedia using Puffin because Wikipedia detects Puffin to be a proxy server.

Puffin comes with Adobe Flash Player to play flash content, especially on mobile devices, where Flash was discontinued due to security issuses.[1] It also comes with virtual trackpad, gamepad, and on screen keyboard functions.[2]

Puffin Browser also has a Lite and a Pro version.

References

  1. ↑ Puffin Web Browser Brings Flash to Mobile Phones, Lifehacker
  2. ↑ "5 awesome web browsers for Android". Digital Trends. 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
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