If you thought yesterday’s news about the new Leopard screenshots was awesome, you’re going to love this! Safari 4 public beta is now available for download, with a feature list that puts this browser right at the top!
Top Sites
A feature first seen in Opera’s Speed Dial, Safari brings in a whole new experience with Top Sites. Presented in a 3D window, much akin to the ’3D wall’ seen in the AppleTV ad, Safari lets you organise your favourite sites. Full updated web page previews of the sites that you visit daily.
Cover Flow integration for Bookmarks and History
This is one of the best implementations of Cover Flow yet. You can see all your web page previews as you search through your bookmarks or history. What’s more, if you’re in a new tab, just clicking inside the search field will bring up the history browser.
New javascript engine
The Nitro engine gives Safari some really super speed in terms of rendering complex ajax pages. Try MobileMe, Google Maps or some of the other ajax heavy web pages to feel the difference.
A lot more!
There’s a lot more that’s in this new browser that talking about here would be a waste. After all, if there is someone who knows to present information well, it is Apple. Head over to Apple.com/Safari and check out all the new features. It’s good, I can tell you that.
A free download for Mac and Windows users, weighing in at about 20-30MB depending on your platform. Go get it.
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I kind of like the top sites feature. you can set it up with your own top sites which for me is nice because I can just click on the ones I visit each morning. I have not messed around with the cover flow just yet. but it looks interesting as well. I am not great at labeling my book marks so I have duplicates and sometimes just forget what a particular book mark was so instead of opening up a site this may be handy.
Can we now :
- print a selection
- sort the bookmarks