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Apple releases Safari 4

by Scott Bicheno on 24 February 2009, 18:16

Tags: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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List of new features

Here's the full Apple list of 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;
  • built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility; and
  • a new 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.

Safari 4 can be downloaded from www.apple.com/safari.



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Shouldnt there be an Upto bit infront of those claims?. Maybe they will bundel itunes in with this like they do with quicktime, apple are a virus :P. Ill try the beta and tell you if its quicker….

edit: lol i see they try and get quicktime installed with it

edit2: Ok they seem to overate it imo, some instances its about a millisecond quicker than firefox but in others its slower. Perhaps its an improvement but nothing compared to what they say.,
is there a 64bit version?
I'm liking it. I think I'll try it as a default browser replacement to Chrome 2 for a bit and see how I get on with it.

It's certainly got a Chrome feel to it. They both run WebKit don't they?
koocha
I'm liking it. I think I'll try it as a default browser replacement to Chrome 2 for a bit and see how I get on with it.

It's certainly got a Chrome feel to it. They both run WebKit don't they?

Yup, have a look at the press release to see what Apple has to say about WebKit.