Mind you, in my tests, page rendering was slower than in Edge on my Lumia 950 XL by between 10% and 25%:īut let's get to the exciting bit - 'Extensions' in a mobile web browser under Windows 10 Mobile. Web pages are rendered well and many tabs can be kept open at the same time, RAM-permitting, just as in Edge (or Internet Explorer). The navigation menu does look rather cool on AMOLED screens though - curiously the tab browser background is a neutral grey, but this is a minor point in the grand scheme of things. The clean design extends to a clear settings menu pane, with quite a bit that's useful, including setting your default search engine and your theme for the UI elements (going dark doesn't affect the usually-white web pages, though, so it's of limited use in saving power on AMOLED screens): I should note at this point that Coc Coc Browser is available for Windows Phone 8.1 as well as Windows 10 Mobile, but the newer features like 'Extensions' (of which more below) are only on the latter platform. However, it's still noteworthy for its fledgling Extension support - with a first party video downloader ('Savior') the headline advantage.Ĭoc Coc Browser (the name means 'knock knock' in Vietnamese, apparently, and the characters look different in the original on the Store but many web browsers can't cope with them, so I've simplified things here) presents a clean look with URL bar at the top and all functions on a right-hand-side navigation pop-out menu, as shown below right:

Coc Coc Browser (I'm omitting the Vietnamese character embellishments) is clean and modern but isn't as fast as Edge, confirming my suspicions. Edge), unless they pull tricks like content compression and ad blocking.

I'm always a bit wary of third party web browsers - they're never as efficient and speedy as the tightly coded native alternative (e.g.

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