Safari users have reason to sing and dance in the streets today as Apple has released Safari 4 beta for Mac and PC. Take note that you have to manually go to Apple’s website and download Safari 4 as it won’t show up in software update’s. What new excitement did Apple bring to the browser table?
- Top Sites: (Shown above) Now you’re top sites are displayed in a nice graphical UI giving normal everyday browsing some pizazz.
- Cover Flow: Apple is just loving the cover flow navigation method and is bringing it to Safari bookmarks and history
- Full History Search: Cover Flow UI + Keyword full history search
- Nitro Engine: The new name for the updated performance in Javascript…4.2 times faster to be exact
- Native Windows Appearance: For windows users, Safari will now blend in better and look like your Windows OS
- Tabs have been moved above address bar ala Chrome
- Developer Tools: Tools to help developers tweak/debug their websites for optimum performance
- Smart Address Field: Automatically finishes URL’s displaying easily read suggestions from top sites, bookmarks, and history
- Full Page Zoom: Get a little closer without loss of text or image quality
I for one am excited as I primarily use Safari. I dabble with Firefox from time to time to play with new plugins and such but I don’t use it daily. I just like the look and feel of Safari better. Any one else care to share a boat with me? To get a stab at Safari 4 beta head on over to Apple’s download page and geek away. But before you do that, come inside for some more pictures of Safari 4 in action.
*Update* After spending an hour so far on Safari beta 4 for Mac, I’ve noticed a pretty big problem. I use WordPress, and when I go to insert a link, the box appears but it has a dark mask over it like it hasn’t finished loading and it hangs. The only way to get back to what your were doing is to reload the page. Anyone else noticing this?
*Pictures property of Crunchgear*
Source: Boy Genius
