Big Safari upgrades

The Safari browser got quite an overhaul in this release. For starters, it's much faster to load Web pages, but there's a lot more to it than that.

* Hide your activity: Launch settings and find Safari. Select Enable for the Private Browsing tab. The browser will no longer record everything you do and pull up the last page you visited every time you open the app. You can also clear your history from settings.

* If you remember Lynx, the text-based browser for Unix shell, then you will like Reader, a feature that strips all the junk out of a Web site and shows just the text, similar to Readability and Instapaper add-ons for desktop browsers. Look in the URL window after a page loads, and you will see a gray button marked "Reader." Tap it and the page is rendered without the other junk.




* The Reading List feature from desktop Safari has also gone mobile, allowing you save articles for reading at a later time.

* For iPad users, iOS 5 finally brings tabbed browsing to the iPad. As can be seen above, you will now be able to switch tabs with just one touch