In the recent WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2009, San Francisco. Apple Inc. has launched several new products to the public and developers. One of them are the all new Safari 4 web browser. They claimed is as the fastest and most innovative browser with the Nitro JavaScript engine.
This browser works on the iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and PC. The browser’s war has begun. But in term of speed, Google Chrome still leading the way, and Safari 4 lacks innovations, like the Web Slices and Accelerators in Internet Explorer and the extreme customizability of Firefox. I personally haven’t really tested Firefox yet and the coming soon, Opera 10 with turbo compression technology has spice up the competition.
Back to Safari 4, I have no problem installing it on my Windows PC running on XP Professional and Home Edition. But it was slightly bulkier with 27MB download file than that of the smallest browser, Chrome, which is a mere half megabyte.
The most eye-catching feature are the Top Sites, which shows your most-accessed Web pages in a glorious 3D view. When you open a tab, you see the new Top Sites page, a curved, 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited Web sites.
The missing part from the final release are the Chrome-like ‘Tabs on Top’, which placed page tabs above the address bar. When you open a tab, you see the new Top Sites page, a curved, 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited Web sites. An Edit button lets you remove any of these thumbnails, and you can drag any mini-page to a spot of your choice and ‘pin’ it to that spot.
Safari's bookmark management is adequate, but I was unable to import more than one IE bookmark at a time. Chrome has the same problem, whereas Firefox let me import a whole folder at once. Safari also lacks Firefox's ability to show recently bookmarked items and its tagging capability.
Unlike the Chrome, Safari includes a handy sidebar, which you can show by clicking the book icon at the top left of the window. The sidebar has a variety of functions; you can choose from among History, Bookmarks, Bonjour networking, and a basic RSS reader. Any of these sidebar choices takes advantage of the scrolling Cover Flow view in the top half of the main center panel, while the bottom half offers a simple list of the links. You can scroll back and forth through the Cover Flow images via mouse wheel, or you can use a slider beneath the images.
Overall, Safari 4 performed relatively well on Windows. It passes Acid 3 tests with a 100/100, browsing were smooth and fast. Let’s the hunt begins. Give Safari 4 a go on your machines.
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