Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Safari 4 Public Beta released!

150 Features

Safari 4 web browser for Windows Vista with native browser chrome demonstrating top sites feature
Initial impressions:
  • Beta quality, and not Google's definition of Beta.
  • Cover Flow is cool, but adds bloat. The good thing is, it uses (and needs) GPU acceleration.
  • Tabs on Top don't work as well as they are on Chrome.
  • Supposedly faster than Chrome, nothing I've noticed, but it is faster than Safari 3 and Apple claims 30x faster than IE7!!!
  • CSS Animation are awesome! I like this feature and would like to see it used more.
  • Native look and feel on Windows shows that Apple actually cares. This was a major complain of a lot of Windows users who tried Safari 3.
  • Top Sites obviously taken from Opera, but Safari does it in a flashy way.
  • The inline progress indicator is actually missing.

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