Tag : Safari
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Safari 4 public β has come
I got to know Apple has been released their Web browser Safari 4 public beta while reading someone's blog (I forgot who, where, when), so I went to Safari download page and downloaded it.
First, I tried to install in Leopard running MacBook, but it didn't launch. I uninstalled it twice and reinstalled twice only to fail.
so I stopped trying to make it work on OS X and switched to try it on AMD Windows XP machine. It just went well and works fine as the image below shows.
And one of new features, coverflow is really great.
Now tabs are on the top of the windows like Google Chrome and there are many similarities can be seen elsewhere. JavaScipt behaves like Google Chrome does, and I think it works better and fast enough than the older version of Safari.
I think it's a good decision Apple have chosen the new "Windows-like" interface, it now runs as if it were "Windows-oriented" browser. Pretty cool.
But even Apple did a great jobs on their new Safari, Google Chrome is faster at launch, rendering (X)HTML I feel. Yes, it is faster than older version of Safari, and faster than IE7(I don't think 30 times faster as Apple claims, but I think actually it's faster than IE), but I think Chrome is still the fastest browser on Windows platform. so I still stick to Chrome. I'm look forward to see Safari's improvements in the future versions.
Problem...solved !
I failed to run Safari 4 public β this morning, so I googled some info and I found the solution. It was because of Glims, a useful plugin I've using with Safari 3.x.
Now the developer of Glims did a quick & great job, they announced they have already fixed the problem Glims crashes Safari 4.
So, I uninstalled older version of Glims, and installed a new version of it, Glims build 13 for Safari, and it works perfect with Safari 4 now.
Taste...Good!
I've browsed for about an hour or so, and usability and taste is almost as same as Windows version of Safari 4 and I have no doubt that this is the finest version in Safari history.
Summary
Since I've been a user of Google Chrome when I'm on Windows for several month and I'm a big fan of it, so I've been waiting for OS X version of Google Chrome. But I see that Safari 4 is something like "Apple has released Google Chrome instead of Google for us".
Apple really did a great job.