Blazer (web browser)

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Blazer 4.0 on a Treo 650

Blazer is a free (Blazer 3 and 4 bundled, Blazer 1 and 2 were bundled or add-on purchase) web browser available for Palm handhelds running Palm OS 3.1 or higher and have 8mb of free memory available.

The original version, Blazer, was released in May 2001. It supported HTML, WAP, and i-Mode. As of September 22, 2005, all copies of Blazer 1 and 2 were rendered inoperable as the proxy server for these browsers was taken offline by Palm.

1 Blazer 2
2 Blazer 3
3 Blazer 4
4 See also

[edit] Blazer 2

Blazer 2 was released shortly after the original Blazer in early 2002. Blazer 2 added the ability to use proxy servers, SSL, and 16 bit color.

[edit] Blazer 3

Blazer 3 was a significant upgrade in the series. Palm, Inc. dumped the original code for Blazer and started fresh with the NetFront Browser Engine (most notably used in the Sony Clie) as the core of the Blazer browser. It is bundled with Treo 600.

[edit] Blazer 4

Next came Palm Blazer 4.0/4.1. It's currently bundled with the Tungsten E2, the Tungsten T5, and the Treo 650. New Features included faster loading, an improved UI, VPN with an extra plugin, the saving of image and HTML files to a memory card or the device, homepages, bookmarks, and the ability to start on your last viewed page. Blazer 4 also features support for the latest web standards including HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, WML 1.3, SSL 3.0, cHTML, JavaScript 1.5, CSS 1.0 and 2.0 (partial), GIF (both still and animated, along with transparency), JPEG, PNG, BMP and Cookies. (use of some advanced features may crash the browser if it is not in Wide Page Mode).

Soon after, Blazer 4.3 browser came (available on the Treo 650, TX and LifeDrive). The most significant addition to 4.3 is the fast mode option, which removes images and/or disables cascading style sheets.

Blazer 4.5 was released in May 2006, along with the Treo 700p as part of the device's application suite. It offers faster page rendering, and support for streaming video (using a built-in version of Kinoma Player).