June 9, 2009 12:31 PM PDT
Safari 4's fast, but not perfect: First Look video
Apple is touting Safari 4 as the fastest browser on the Web for both Windows and Mac. Depending on your computer's specs, that may indeed be true. However, if you need more than speed, Safari may not be the best choice. It's zippy with the JavaScript, but on Windows machines it still consumes a huge amount of RAM and still doesn't support extensions--something the Mac version can do.
What it does offer, though, is a uniquely visual browser right out of the box. Top Sites and Cover Flow for History and Bookmark browsing will either entice or annoy, but there's no doubt that Apple is finally taking its browser seriously.
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The browser's javascript is lightning fast though. The speed increase over firefox 3.0 (which I was using prior to Safari 4) is quite noticeable when browsing MobileMe and gmail.
I hope HTML5 support becomes the next major battleground for browsers. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do with it.
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I thought Opera 10, beta 1 already has support for HTML 5?
[They might be the first ones too.]
Oh, and I've tried Safari before, I hated it. It's not as fast as most user's claim.
I've used the latest version of Firefox [and the stable version] and it doesn't even compare to Firefox's speed.
And also, I do not like Safari because there is no support for extensions for Windows at all.
I think that Apple should just stop making that horrible browser. UGH.
I MEANT:
I've used the latest version of Safari, and the beta version, and it still doesn't compare to Firefox's speed.
Sorry. I'm a bit tired and I tend to make a lot of mistakes when I type.
Safari 4 for Mac in my opinion is an excellent browser,uncluttered,very stable,very fast and intuitive,adds Coverflow and Top Sites capabilities to it's wonderful handling of Bookmarks and History.A big step up from Safari 3.x.x.
Compared to Firefox's aesthetic gaudiness (Sorry to all ADD sufferers) and general lack of cohesion,Safari 4 is a dream.Why?
Two things (mainly).
One-I have not come across anything in any other browser that comes close to Safaris' killer feature.
The activity Window.This window allows you to see just about every file that is in your browsers, cache.
This is especially useful when you want to down load videos off the net,especially those videos that the sites' operators don't want you to have a copy of.
Two-This is all well and good,but compared to its potential in terms of speed,Safari 4 on its own doesn't really squash the opposition (apparently).Answer?
Safari 4 + " Webkit nightly build" = Use those Opera Exploring Chrome vulpes to clean your floors.
While to surf the net, install Safari 4.Then go to webkit.org and download the latest "Nightly Build" (yes I know Safari 4 is built around the Webkit engine,Webkit just do the speed part better).
Now with safari 4 closed,install and launch Webkit Nightly Build.It's easy to tell the difference between the two applications' icons-Safari has a silver compass ring,while Webkit has a gold one.
Now control/right click on the Webkit icon in the dock and click on "Keep in Dock".
Now just click the compass with the gold ring in the dock whenever you want to go surfing.
Safari on steroids.Voila.
- by rub13dez June 11, 2009 10:23 PM PDT
- let me say something...i tell you guys man people always got to complain about something,never satisfied...i have to agree with klor5 in my opinion its an excellent browser..havent had any problems its smooth as can be.to all you people who are complaining about this and it wont this an that or it keeps doing this plain an simple dont download it ...dont use it or try to figure out why its doing what its doing....or maybe its your computer....why is everybody so quick to blame the browser?shoot it's probably your computer ..so stop crying man......
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- by Cryowolf June 19, 2009 10:54 PM PDT
- EAH2900 HD, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, quad 2.55 GHz and I still cant run Safari as fast/smoothly as chrome, firefox, oper 10 combined.. And if a browser depends on a good computer to run it's missing the point completely.
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