The evaluation report of 3.4 by the foreign media

In fact, the Tour has a history of nearly ten years. Proud of the browser version 3.4 has a rich and powerful features, its speed and compatibility is also its characteristics highlights. If you want to play the video in the browser or grab screenshots, the function of the browser can help you achieve, if you want to sync tags or bookmarks, proud to swim built-in tools can also be achieved, if you want to protect your eyes, proud of the night mode to help you. At the same time, there is no need to worry about compatibility because it uses the Chrome and Internet Explorer dual-core rendering engine.

Summary：

Proud Tour Browser 3 brings users unique browsing experience fast, HTML5 support, rich features.

Advantage：

Many browser practical functions: HTML5 performance support is excellent, the speed is outstanding, cloud synchronization, plug-in features, support do not Track, compatible with IE and chrome dual-core engine.

Disadvantage：

Accidental crashes occur; the interface looks complicated; the label function is not perfect; the hardware acceleration behaves generally.

Proud Tour Browser basic data:

Type: Commercial Edition, Personal Edition, Professional Edition

Compatible systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS, Windows 7

Technical Support: Network community and frequently asked questions

Interface

In the default environment, proud to swim the interface slightly more complicated. But it has some very prominent features, let you fondle admiringly. When you get started, you'll find more practical tools. "Sidebar" has a "collection", "Download", "subscribe", "Proud Tour Notepad", "label Synchronization" and other plug-ins. At the same time, you can continue to add a variety of plug-ins in the sidebar, such as: Facebook, Twitter, online shopping assistants and games. Although not in the proud tour of their own plug-in manager found in the "AD interception" plug-in, but proud to visit the Third-party plug-in station but provided this extension.

The upper-left corner is a blue smiley face button that can access the main Menu dialog box. When you create an AO-sync account, you can use your personalized avatar to login to the browser. In addition, AO Tour also provides nearly hundreds of kinds of personalized theme skin, labels and button settings for everyone to choose. From cute cartoon themes to polished metal textured rock themes, meet the individual needs of different users. The skin of the proud swims is more powerful than the chrome and IE. Quickly download skin, the browser will automatically install, do not need to restart the browser.

Label

Proud of the browser's label function is not perfect, can not drag and drop a tag to generate a new browser window, but other mainstream browsers can be implemented. Not to mention the "tag preview" feature of opera 12, and the "fixed to Apps tab" feature of IE, Chrome and Firefox. Also, the browser cannot turn off the label in an inactive state. However, proud of the browser's "split-screen browsing function" and "Full label refresh" feature is very unique.

The "new label" setting is as practical as any other browser. In the new tab of the proud browser, you can display 12 quick access Sudoku, where users can move or add any Web site you want (Chrome's quick access shows only the sites most visited by users). The new tab in the browser also offers a wide range of optional art backgrounds, or users can upload custom backgrounds. The browser can achieve the "fast access" content synchronization under different terminal equipment. There is also an option to set the new label content to "Hide blank squares." However, the author tried to sync the new label, but did not find the synchronized Sudoku in another computer with a proud browser.

Other features

On the interesting features, the author has described: Proud of the browser has more than other browsers are also rich and useful features. The window opened by the browser is already displayed. In addition, there are "left sidebar", the upper right corner and the lower right corner of the tool buttons, all show a lot of detail to visit the details of the function settings.

This special feature of the "Resource sniffer" in the function bar is presented here. In any browsing page, a resource sniffer can download all of the contents of a video, music, or photo format. However, when you play the video, the video eject button often appears in the upper-right corner of the window, some of which affect the user browsing experience. Sometimes, resource sniffing cannot determine the MP3 download format. However, it is true that video can be downloaded from the mainstream video media.

There are many other interesting and useful features in the toolbar options. "Intelligent filling form" can be used for multiple account password management; screenshot "function can intercept the entire page, but also the area screenshots;" RSS reader can achieve automatic subscription browsing content; "Proud Tour Notepad" can be recorded on the PC text content, sync to other equipped with proud of the notebook device terminal. There is also an external tools option on the upper right toolbar to jump directly to my computer, artboard, calculator, or other external tools that you can add.

Night mode is also a very popular feature. It can automatically make browsing the background of the page darkened, the text becomes brighter, or the custom text and background color, make reading more comfortable. The lower right bottom status bar "Mute control" ensures that you are not disturbed by video or audio sounds that are automatically played in the Web page. You can also set whether to display the speed of uploading or downloading in the status bar, CPU usage, and IP address.

Like Safari, the Ao Browser offers "reading mode", which filters clutter of ads and pictures. When you open a page, a blue book icon will appear on the address bar, and it will become a reading interface. Another cool visual tool is "Telestrator": Hold down the right mouse button to highlight the content of the page you selected.

Another proud browser does not have (but opera has) the function is built-in BT download. Opera's Turbo Mode, mail client, or speed Dial apps, is not a browser. However, the Ao browser has the same mouse gestures as opera. With a period of proud browser, you will find some other very useful good features.

Sync and Start Page

Proud of the browser by default, will display a very useful starting page, show links, news, search bar and popular movies. You can customize the links and browsing content in this page to the fullest extent possible. You can sync your notes on your computer and mobile terminals using a cloud that is a proud tour. You can also sync bookmarks, options, address bars, new tag links and smart form codes, and any standalone plugin.

Performance

In terms of speed, you only need to know one thing: The Proud browser is superior to Google Chrome's own V8 benchmark. This V8 benchmark is used to evaluate object-based structured applications. The JavaScript engine browser is an enhanced version of the Chrome JS engine. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is superior to Chrome in performance. Here is the test machine configuration and test results.

Test environment: 2.53 GHz Core Duo, 3 G memory, running 32-bit Windows 7 Professional Edition.

In order to test the extent of the browser to achieve graphics hardware acceleration (a Microsoft IE team advocated by the performance pressure test), the author did the following test.

Test environment: 3.4 GHz Quad core four core, 4 GB memory, ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics card, Windows 7 flagship.

In this test, the Ao browser slightly behind some. It seems only a small part of the hardware acceleration support, not even meet the IE, Chrome and Firefox standards.

Start time

How long does it take to use a browser after it is started? This is another key performance issue. Even with other test methods, these browsers are not much different in this performance comparison. Cold start state, AO Browser open speed of 2.5 seconds, overall performance is not bad. Much faster than opera and Safari. Hot start speed Everyone is doing well, as the right data below shows:

Test environment: 2.53GHz Dual-core, Windows 7, 3GB memory notebook.

Compatibility

Proud browser compatibility is good: it contains two types of cores based on IE and chrome. The author in the process of using the browser

, there is no page that displays the browser does not support.

In HTML5 performance support, the proud browser has just ceded its first position to Chrome 21. But the proud browser still has a good performance on the HTML5 test of the html5test.com website. For HTML5 standard characteristics, the test is divided into 500 points. Additional points, such as support for additional video decoding, are added to the icing on the HTML5 standard. The browser is still leading the extra score.

But the proud browser is not the HTML5 field of "eldest brother", it did not achieve HTML5 Getusermedia. This feature allows a browser to connect to a webcam or microphone with a plug-in similar to Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight type.

Security and privacy

Proud tour does not have similar IE download protection program, but has a secure Web site detector. The author can run any downloaded valid program without receiving a warning from the browser. In the browser security test (full score of 17 points), Firefox scored 12 points, IE9 scored 13 points, and Chrome scored 16 points. Compared to the 14 points of the slight advantage of the slightly ahead of Firefox and IE9. At the same time, proud to use a separate tag program and similar chrome-like sandbox technology to separate the page code to ensure that your system to avoid attack.

Like other browsers, proud to provide users with a "Privacy protection window" for no trace browsing. Proud tour users can choose from the main menu. Any browsing history or download-completed files will not be saved. In addition to Chrome, the "Do not Track" feature is supported like other browsers. Unlike other browsers that support this, pride is the only browser that sets the "Do not Track" to the default state. When Idle, proud of the user can lock the browser. When locked, no one can use your browser to secure your privacy.

Although there are so many bright spots, but it is not perfect. Several times I have encountered the "browser encountered a serious error" hint, but fortunately all the open label browser has been saved, even if the crash will not lose browsing information.

Is it good enough?

The browser is a collection of unique features of other brand browsers. It also confirms the fact that it uses IE and the chrome dual-core strategy. However, the browser also has some of its own advantages, such as built-in downloader, night mode, screen capture tools. The tour has not yet tested its performance according to the latest standards, but is second only to Chrome in HTML5 's test.

There is no doubt that there will be more and more questions about its ability to innovate in the event of a proud tour of other browser functions. Even if the problem is put aside for a while, the test also finds a problem with the hardware acceleration and frequent crashes in the background. Although some of the performance is worthy of affirmation, but can not shake chrome in the hearts of editors. Not only does chrome improve web browsing speed, but it also has an absolute lead on standard support for Web pages.