Windows Phone 7 comes with a mobile web browser based on Internet Explorer, and it’s much more powerful than the mobile browsers that shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 and older phones. But it’s lacking some features you might expect such as support for tabs, or even for entering a URL in landscape orientation. Fortunately there are third party add-ons that address those shortcomings (if you see them as shortcomings).

A few weeks ago we mentioned Browser+, which adds tabbed browsing and an incognito mode (allowing you to surf the web without your phone recording your history). Now the folks at WPCentral have found another app called Browse On, which also supports tabs, but additionally lets you tilt the phone to surf the web in landscape orientation — and still enter new URLs in the address bar.

Browse On also hides the address bar after you open a page, giving you more screen real estate. I also kind of think Browse On’s tabs look a bit nicer than those in Browser+, since they have rounded edges. But that’s probably just a matter of taste.

You can check out a video from WPCentral after the break.

Browse On is available for $0.99 from the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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For the last 10 years, Microsoft has been shipping its mobile operating systems with mobile versions of Internet Explorer. But as mobile web browsers go, the Internet Explorer tends to be sluggish and up until recently, the browser was hard to navigate with your fingers, instead relying on stylus input.

But Internet Explorer isn’t the only game in town. There are a number of popular third party browsers available for Windows Mobile, and the folks at xda-developers have written up a rather detailed overview of 5 Windows Mobile web browsers (including Internet Explorer).

If you’re looking for a good comparison of Skyfire, Internet Explorer, Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile and Mini, and Dorothy, you should definitely check out the xda-developers article to see how the browsers stack up against one another in terms of page rendering speeds, user interface, and other criteria.