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Apple Announces Safari 4 Public Beta
Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4 for Mac and PC that brings several new features including a new 'Nitro' engine.
The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable include Top Sites, for a stunning visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed browsing easier and more intuitive. “Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed and open standards back into web browsers, and today it takes another big step forward,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser for Mac and Windows, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards that enables the next generation of interactive web applications.” Safari 4 is built on the world’s most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and more than three times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages three times faster than IE 7 and almost three times faster than Firefox 3. Apple is leading the industry in defining and implementing innovative web standards such as HTML 5 and CSS 3 for an entirely new class of web applications that feature rich media, graphics and fonts. Safari 4 includes HTML 5 support for offline technologies so web-based applications can store information locally without an Internet connection, and is the first browser to support advanced CSS Effects that enable highly polished web graphics using reflections, gradients and precision masks. Safari 4 is the first browser to pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test, which examines how well a browser adheres to CSS, JavaScript, XML and SVG web standards that are specifically designed for dynamic web applications.
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Nice to know, i`m getting the beta right now. Anyway, i was wondering when CoverFlow will enter into the Safari - guess we didnt have to wait long. And a very nice thing - native font rendering for Windows version, cause older one looked terrible sometimes.
Added : Ok got it, will test for some time. But - first things, it works very fast, it gets 100/100 in Acid3 test, every site which i visit regularly is working correctly, Top Sites are very nice, and Apple proved something once again - noone makes better eye-candies than Apple...even inside a web browser ( cover flow, top sites, animation with zooming selected site etc ) www.ultimae.com Panoramic music, for panoramic people. AMD Phenom II X6 3.5Ghz AMD 990FX Chipset Kingston HyperX 16GB 1600Mhz AMD Radeon HD6850 X2 CrossFire Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB Last edited by Taisto; 02-24-2009 at 04:41 PM. |
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Starting for the first time, you get that Safari4 animation on the Apple website: *BOOM*
Restarting, opening a second tab: *BOOM* Not very stable or useful. Not for me at least. Removed it again real fast. My system is fast & stable. But S4, nope. Apple Macbook Pro 15" 2.93GHz | Apple 24" LED Cinema Screen iAtkos v5i 10.5.6 Vanilla Machine: Acer 7730G Memory: 4GB DDR2/667 Storage: 2x 250GB Display: nVidia GeForce 9300M GS |
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Very interesting!
My first impressions are positive. For those of you who don't like the tabs on top, fire up the Terminal and enter: Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO |
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I'd love to try it but the beta destroys many input manager hacks such as 1Password :/
*Update* I found out on the arstechnica site that 1Password can be enabled quite easily: Quote:
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Adblock work?
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One thing that always bothered me about the tabs in Safari was that I could never find the keys to move from tab to tab. This new version solves that with a easy to remember key - control-tab to move to the right and control=shift=tab to move left. Very handy when comparing two webpages, and flipping back and forth without having to navigate with the mouse. What about adding a feature like W7 where two pages could snap side by side?
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hmmmm well right after the welcome to safari 4 video thing safari crashed and each time I try to go to it after the video it crashes....also I tryed oppening a new tab and it crashed....weird
Edit: Yeah it crashes ever time I try to oppen a new tab >_< Also If I try to show new sites???? is this a problem with my video card or something??? Mac OS X 10.5.5 Voodoo 9.5.0 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2 GB 1334 MHz DDR2 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M-M MB Maxtor 75 GB IDE Last edited by oneshot; 02-25-2009 at 05:07 AM. |
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Is you homepage set to the default Apple one? That page has a lot going on and I wouldn't bother going there first. Mine showed a black screen on the intro page, so I closed it and opened my last session tabs and it worked ok, showing them all normally so far. It did overwrite Safari 3 with 4 so it makes it hard to compare the two.
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yeah my homepage is the apple one. Its weird.
If I try to open a link in a new tab by holding command and clicking on a link then it will open it in another tab. If I press Command + "T" than it crashes?? 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Voodoo 9.5.0 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2 GB 1334 MHz DDR2 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M-M MB Maxtor 75 GB IDE |