Have you ever leant your iPad to a friend or family member and when you get it back you find they’ve logged out of all of your social networks and closed all those tabs you were saving for later?
With Skyfire’s new HotSwap feature on the iPad, you can setup different accounts for each users so that everyone has their own profile while browsing the web — with their own bookmarks, tabs, and settings. It’s perfect for sharing.
If you have one iPad for the whole family, then Skyfire with HotSwap is simply an essential purchase. You can setup an account for yourself, one for mum, and one for each of the kids. When you open up the app, you select your account and you’re instantly presented with your own bookmarks, your own tabs, your own preferences, your own history, and your own account logins for things like Facebook and Twitter.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXGV1ISZXo
HotSwap supports up to four different users, and it’s available with the latest version of Skyfire for iPad. If you already have Skyfire, it’s a free update, or $4.99 to purchase.
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
2 responses to “Skyfire’s New HotSwap Feature Brings Multi-User Browsing To The iPad [Video]”
eh. i don’t ever use web apps. call me when apple creates logins for the entire iOS.
No mention or display of passwords? Wouldn’t that be the killer feature? Or even better, when you’re logged into your account, you could establish a password for private browsing. When you logged out, no password is asked for, and the program displays all your windows that aren’t designated “private”. Put in a password in the password area, and *poof!*—all your private browsing windows show up. <–Winner of an idea, that one.