Safari 4 Beta

Being the technoholic that I am, I downloaded and installed Safari 4 Beta as soon as I heard about it. In the past, I’ve not been a huge Safari fan and would only use it to see how sites loaded and functioned compared to Firefox. It seemed like a average, simple browser. With that said, I had low expectations when I fired up Safari 4.

There are some great features included in this version. Top Sites is a visual bookmark implementation that suggests websites that you frequently visits. It also updates and includes a live preview and an graphic to let you know that the site has new content since last visited. Another feature that I really like is the Tabs-On-Top (as I call it). It saves screen real estate by putting the tabs where the window title was instead of below your bookmark toolbar.

Aside from some of the neat features taken from other browsers (Top Sites = Opera’s Speed Dial, Tabs-On-Top = Chrome’s tabs) that I love, Safari 4 is stinkin’ fast! It absolutely blows my Firefox 3 setup away. It’s not one of those “it’s faster on paper, but you can’t tell” things. Once you open it up, you’ll be able to tell the difference.