Ever since the first text only web browser hit the internet in the early 90s, I’ve been trying to keep up with all the new apps, features, and extensions that have improved the browsing experience. When online pornography became a thing, thanks to high speed connectivity and Adobe’s Flash player, someone, and I can’t remember who did it first, thought of a brilliant idea to invent a separate “Safe Mode” so that anything and everything you do on the internet doesn’t get stored in your web history.
You have to remember, PCs were once family devices, so the wife would be pretty upset if she went to type in something in the URL bar only to see Internet Explorer autocomplete the website to Teens Love Daddy. Chrome has Incognito mode, Firefox has Private Windows, and now Dolphin has Zero. What makes Dolphin Zero cool is that it isn’t a special mode you have to active with a series of taps. Instead, it’s a self contained application.
In other words, you do all your normal safe for work web browsing in one browser, and then when you want to look up something you’re not too particularly proud of, just tap the Dolphin Zero icon and that’s it. You’re done.
While I highly doubt that this browser will be used by tens of millions of people, even I have to admit that I’m grateful that the option exists. But the best option, bar none, is to simply put a password lock on your phone and don’t let anyone, not even your significant other, know what it is.
Update: Apple invented private browsing in 2005. Google stole the feature in 2008. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox added the feature in 2009.