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Speaking of web inspectors, did anyone else notice what a tremendous broken piece of crap the one in the latest version of Safari is? It's downright scandalous!

I had to manually roll back Safari to 5.1.7 to get the old one back.

I will give Apple credit for keeping me hooked on Safari since they're bookmark and history sync across all their devices via the cloud is top notch.

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I kind of like it but the console is broken-slow. a simple console.log(foo) doesn't draw anything for a second or two after the event fires and even then it's empty for another moment while the inspector decides what to draw. Very odd.

If you log into Chrome, your bookmarks, history, plugins, settings, etc. will sync across all Chromes that you log into with the same user/pass.

Thanks, but the chrome on my iPhone/iPad leaves something to be desired

Compared to Safari? Really? I'm honestly surprised, as an iPhone user who had to put up with Safari for 3 years. The only nice feature about it is the Readability-powered Reader button.

Safari is the only browser on iOS with JIT enabled.

If Jailbroken and you have 99 cents, you can install Nitrous in Cydia to get nitro everywhere. It gave me 3.5x faster performance on Sunspider.

But even if not, how many mobile websites use heavy JS? Chrome appears to use page pre-fetching as well, or at least that's what I gather from the "preload webpages" setting.

Doesn't excuse its irritatingly outdated UI.

not if you jailbreak :P

search for "nitrous" on cydia

I gave it a cursory glance but haven't had much cause to really use it yet (though I did get some good use out of the console keeping a history of log files). What kind of issues have you been having?

Half the features missing, impossible to navigate.

That's actually completely false. Just about all of the features are there, but they have been reorganized a lot. It seems like they're trying to align the organization of their inspector more with the way the debug tools in XCode work, so that the experience is unified across them. It's a bit tough to get used to if your habits are with the old inspector, but it's actually not too bad once you start getting the hang of it. Just a rearchitecting of your brain map.

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