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Apple's Safari 4 Browser now available
Apple has finally released the Safari 4 Website Browser after several months of beta testing.It is being said that it is the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring new Nitro JavaScript engine that able to execute JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3, nearly 8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and 4 times faster than Firefox 3.This automatically refreshes a page should it crash, rather than send down the whole browser and is indeed rather like Chrome though Apple claims Safari 4 will be even faster than Google's speed machine. It's free to download now for Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger) and Windows.

It's notable for an iTunes-like Cover Flow interface for viewing history, and Top Sites view that shows your most visited sites in a 3D grid view.Apple also added the Cover Flow interface now found in almost every piece of its software to let users scroll backwards through browsing history as if they were flipping through album covers, and what appears to be Apple’s own implementation of FireFox’s Smart Location “awesome bar” called Smart Address Field.

More than just increased speed, Safari 4 also represents one of the browser's biggest makeovers with a new minimalist Chrome-esque appearance including repositioned tabs and a default homepage displaying most visited pages and a Cover Flow mode for searching through both web history and bookmarks.In addition to superior JavaScript performance, Safari 4 can load HTML web pages 3 times faster than IE 8 and Firefox 3, aiming to provide users an ultimate web browsing experience.

Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. By default, there’s no status bar. Instead, a progress gear turns as your page loads. And if you so choose, you can hide almost the entire interface, removing virtually every distraction from the browser window.

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#2
09-06-2009

Techguru01
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Re: Apple's Safari 4 Browser now available
The new version offers performance improvements, iPod style cover flow navigation, a native windows theme, tabs at the top of the window, history search, top sites, improved developer tools and all the usual bug/security fixes.Feature wise the browser is indistinguishable from the Safari beta.The first browser to deliver the “real” internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPhone and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer. But this is more than just a scaled down mobile-version of the original.

Features:-
Incredible visual preview of frequently visited and favorite websites

Web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed sites

Browse worry free, your privacy protected, your security assured.

Enjoy the content you’re browsing, distraction free.

Safari does things that no browser has ever done before.

Blazing speed. Open standards. One powerful web engine.

Full History Search to search through titles

Cover Flow to offer a highly visual way of reviewing site history and bookmarks

Smart Address Fields for automatically completing web addressesSmart Search Fields to fine tune searches

Any more..

#3
09-06-2009
Larry ward
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Re: Apple's Safari 4 Browser now available
Safari also makes it a lot easier to find sites you’ve visited in the past — but can’t quite remember. Since it stores all the text of every page you visit, Safari can instantly find sites from even the sketchiest search terms. According to Apple, Safari 4 is the first browser to deliver the “real” internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPhone and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer.

It takes advantage of the technologies built into these multi-touch devices. The page shifts and reformats to fill the window when you turn it on its side. You zoom in just by pinching and extending your fingers. Of course, no matter how you access it, Safari is always blazing fast and easy-to-use.

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09-06-2009
Orlando
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Re: Apple's Safari 4 Browser now available
The browser also offers HTML 5 support for many offline technologies. The distinct attribute will allow users to access information stored locally in web-based applications.

Windows System Requirements
Any PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista

500-MHz Pentium-class processor or better

256MB of RAM