Safari 4 Public Beta released

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The UI for the PC version has been changed. It sports the AERO title bar now which also doubles up as the tab bar. Also, the chrome color has been changed to the Windows 7 / IE 8's light blue shade.

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Just tried the beta and It looks great with coverflow and stuff, I'm glad to see apple finally adopting windows style theming , hopefully they'll do something similar with itunes :)

Here's whats new ...

Features:
Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a stunning wall of previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click;
- Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites they've seen before;
- Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes;
- Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
- Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and browsing history;
- Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune searches with recommendations from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches;
- Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the quality of the site's layout and text;
- Developer Tools - built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility; and
- Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.
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I'd still prefer Opera though :D
 
Damn i tried it..Its EXACTLY a copy of chrome, with the button to close the tab and the refresh button on the other side..else all other button positioning are also same!!!

Only other thing different is that it can read rss feeds..

Way to go apple, think different, now not only are chrome and safari based on the same engine- Webkit, they both looks the same..bravo..
 
Just tried it today..It renders sites fairly quicker than the previous version (even on my sucky 256 kbps connection you can feel the difference)..Absolutely loving it :)
 
Party Monger said:
Damn i tried it..Its EXACTLY a copy of chrome, with the button to close the tab and the refresh button on the other side..else all other button positioning are also same!!!
Only other thing different is that it can read rss feeds..

Way to go apple, think different, now not only are chrome and safari based on the same engine- Webkit, they both looks the same..bravo..
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+1 :P

Safari and others won't get the limelight until FF and Opera quits the browsing market :P
 
I was never fan of Opera.. had tried long back and didn't like it at all. seeing the over-whelming response, I may need to give it a try again:)
 
I dunno if anybody has noticed it, used it on my office PC with a Intel Dual Core, 1GB ram and Windows XP with SP3...it takes some time to load...sometimes the copy function doesn't work. The search tool is good but I notice a lag while trying to search text on a page. Back to FF.
 
Performed the javascript stress tests on my machine: Safari turned out to be 3.66 times faster than FF and 6.05 times faster than Opera. But Opera still remains my primary browser.
@the guy ranting about Apple not doing things differently: It doesn't make sense to do things differently if they do not work.
 
no idea abt the windows version, but using the Mac version since yesterday and

- it's noticeably faster

- The coverflow for history not only looks great but is a real joy to use as well

- The autocomplete in address bar...it used to work great on FF2 ..they somehow messed it up while trying to enhance in in FF3..the new safari gets it just right

All in all, a great upgrade over safari 3
 
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