Bolt Browser Beta 3 Now Ready For Download, Blackberry, Windows Mobile And Palm

Posted by Shel in Web/Tech on June 29, 2009 9:42 am / no comments

The fantastic Bolt Browser talked about here many times, has been updated to v Beta 3. If you have not given Bolt a try on your Blackberry, Windows Mobile device and more importantly Palm device (relieve yourself of Blazer), then you should.

Improvements and new features

Thanks to all of the great feedback we’ve received from our beta testers, we are happy to announce a new release that fulfills many user requests. BOLT Beta3 includes a host of new features and bug fixes designed to improve usability and stability, including:
- Upgraded and faster WebKit4 based server
- BOLT lite, a lightweight build for entry-level platforms, retaining the key elements of BOLT’s feature set
- Cyrillic language and font support, including extensible server-based language pack support
- Inline text entry. This means you can type text directly into forms and Web pages.
- Support for copy-paste
- Rich text rendering with support for Bold and Italic text formatting
- Support for Socket transfer protocol
- Enhanced Favorites management Ã¢â‚¬â€œ rearrange your Favorite entries using the ‘Grab’ feature
- Automatic detection of device security capabilities; HTTPS is disabled and BOLTs lightweight encryption is used if the device does not support HTTPS security mechanism
- Ability to disable images in Web pages for even faster page load speeds and reduced data cost
- Improved split-screen rendering that utilizes faster more optimized scaling algorithms
- Page information dialog to view detailed information on the Web page you are viewing
- Built-in bug report dialog in BOLT help
- Non JSR-75 Build for BB platforms
- A new RSS list dialog that categorizes feeds for easy viewing
- Improved support for file upload feature
- Improved one click BOLT dialog scrolling
- Enhanced inline frame scrolling
- BlackBerry-specific settings confirmation improvement for Preferences page
- Improved page Stop feature
- Improved page load speeds