QuickSurf: QuickSurf from is a promising prospect whose key feature is faster browsing by eliminating image downloads. The program loads to a quick launch screen, where you can create shortcuts for fast access to favorite sites. (This is as close to bookmarks as you get with QuickSurf.) When you visit a site, Quick Surf attempts to block all images--and ads, using a built-in ad blocker--thereby leading to faster page loading.

That's the theory, at least. In my testing, however, this wasn't necessarily the case. While some sites loaded more quickly, others took about as long as they did in Safari. Some images also managed to trickle through on certain sites, for reasons that aren't clear to me.

Once a page has loaded, a row of buttons along the bottom of the screen provides some useful options--back and forward; toggle between quick (no images) and normal (all images) views; enter full screen mode; and a pop-up menu to open the current page in Safari, add it to the quick launch screen, lock the page's orientation to portrait or landscape, and visit the Settings screen.

On the Settings screen, you can toggle the ad blocker and history tracking on and off; disable history, and you'll have a fairly stealthy browser that only leaves a trail on your iPhone if you add pages to the quick launch screen.

While QuickSurf generally worked OK, there are some rough edges. Toggling between quick and normal views is a slow proposition, even if you're going the normal with-images view to the no-images view--the page is downloaded again in full from the server each time you toggle this setting. The full-screen mode is nice, but scrolling around is problematic; many of my swipes were ignored, or acted on a second or two after I made them. QuickSurf doesn't include a search box, so searching the net will require visiting a search site. The program also crashed on me a couple of times during my testing.