Safari 4 Beta

February 24th, 2009 – Apple announced the public beta release of Safari 4 for both Mac and Windows platform. The tagline “Browsing made beautiful. And smart.”, certainly is true.

Apple lists a total of 150 features that makes the latest version of its browser a definitely appealing. You can check out those features from this page.

I downloaded Safari 4 yesterday and tried it out for my daily browsing. In general, I feel that the performance is good. Web pages loads pretty fast and being an Apple product, it looks good. I have one problem with Safari though. While writing this entry in Wordpress, I found that when I want to insert a link, the “Insert/Edit Link” pop-up freezes. It just hang. The pop-up appears, but the fields are all greyed out and I’m unable to type in the URL, etc.

Another thing that I do not like is the “Tabs on Top” (as Apple called it). I don’t like the idea of having tabs on the window title bar itself (similar to Google Chrome). It just don’t appeal to me. I found that there is a way to change that from this website. I tried it last night but the result was not that good. The tab did moves away from the title bar to below the menu bar, but instead of seeing multiple tabs, I can only see one long tab with a small button on the far right which upon clicking, shows the list of the remaining tabs. (Hope you understand what I was trying to say). Anyway, I removed the changes, and keep the tabs as it is, at the “top”.

Overall, for a beta, I give Safari 4, an 8 out of 10 points. I will continue using it for a few weeks and will write another review soon after.

You may download Safari 4 beta from this link. The setup file (Safari for Windows XP or Vista) weighs a total of 25.4MB.

source http://www.jakpo.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/01/safari-4-beta-worlds-fastest-and-most-innovative-browser/