Silver Surfer

Surfing the web requires a web browser that can render the content of the pages and the various applications available.

Silver Surfer is such a tool that aims at providing an improved experience, free of unnecessary options.

Installing the application is a simple process that does not involve too many stops on the way to completion. Basically, following the instructions on the screen is enough to finish the procedure with minimum effort.

The interface is unlike other web browsers that offer support for tabs and capitalize on the space of an empty page in one way or another.

In the case of Silver Surfer navigation starts with an empty screen that has various options in the upper part, such as bookmarks to various pages, a search bar and the address bar.

Additional elements refer to the navigation buttons and the menu bar, which offers the possibility to enable or disable various toolbars as well as access to other functions included in the application.

For instance, it can manage a list of web addresses whose access is restricted. This is also the place to start a private browsing session, where the accessed data is not logged.

Handling Silver Surfer is not a difficult task but it does not offer the comfort of a browser that complies to today’s minimum standards.

During our tests it often showed stability issues and, even if it did not crash, the application displayed “unhandled exception” messages for functionality that should be considered default in other tools.