Apple Debuts Safari 4 Beta for Mac and Windows

CIO Magazine ^ | February 24, 2009 8:03AM | By Jennifer LeClaire

[Swordmaker]

Safari 4.0 Beta Free Downloads for Mac Tiger, Leopard, and Windows.



Windows Native Look and Feel
If you’re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, you’ll feel right at home.
That’s because Safari features a native look — just like other Windows applications — including
a native title bar, borders, and toolbars. To provide a consistent Windows experience, Safari
now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Apple’s crisp anti-aliased
fonts if you prefer. Of course, Safari in Windows delivers the same lightning-fast performance
provided by the Mac version.

Tabs on Top
Tabs offer a great way to have multiple pages open at the same time in a single browser window. And to
switch back and forth with a click. Now Safari takes tabbed browsing to new heights — to the very top
of the browser window — instantly providing more room for you to enjoy the sites you’re reading.

Safari also makes it easy to create and manage tabs. To create a new tab, just click the + button in the
upper-right corner of the Safari window. Want to rearrange tabs? Simply drag a tab by its handle and
drop it in a new location in the tab bar. You can also use the handle to drop a tab into another Safari
window. Or quickly create a new window by dragging the tab out to the desktop. You can create a
bookmark from a group of tabs. Or even tell Safari to open a set of tabs every time you open a
new Safari window.

[Swordmaker]

Apple releases Safari 4.0 (Beta) for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, and Windows XP, Vista, and 7—PING!

Safari 4.0 Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[exist]

Safari looks prettier but I prefer Firefox. It’s like Safari is slutty Megan Fox and Firefox is good ol’ Sarah Michelle Gellar, but with bigger boobs.

[Tainan]

...and its 'boobs' in by 3!

So I can DL this and run it on a PC with XP Pro?
And it will work?

[Spktyr]

Yup.

Apple’s betas usually work better than Microsoft’s full point releases, anyway. You’ll need to have a good video card and RAM for that multi page “coverflow” web site view, I bet.

[Terpfen]

This beta is really nice. REALLY nice. With a functioning auto-updating rules-based Adblock now available for Safari, the only thing keeping me from using Safari over Firefox is the total lack of NoScript or an equivalent alternative.

[Terpfen]

I prefer to think of it as Safari being Denise Milani and Firefox being Jennifer Love Hewitt. :)

[Kimmers]

Thank you for the heads up.....I really like this version but how do I refresh a page.....

[seatrout]

—Megan Fox—

Who?

[seatrout]

—Denise Milani—

Again, who? I guess I don’t watch enough TV!

[Darth Gill]

To the right of the URL and to the left of the Search Field is the circular arrow. Click that. While a page is loading, click in that position to stop loading also.

[Terpfen]

She’s not a TV star. Why don’t you make use of that Google search bar in the upper right corner of your browser?

[Terpfen]

Refresh button is on the right hand side of the address bar, same place it’s at in the iPhone.

[johncatl]

What's the point?

We don't "need" another browser. Firefox can be customized to suit anyone with add-ons and plug-ins and it's plenty fast. Add the IE tab plug-in and you can open Explorer only pages inside Firefox

Opera is probably the fastest of all and is my choice for smartphone browsing.

Safari=Ho Hum.

[seatrout]

So, whatever happened to Netscape?

[6SJ7]

You’ll need to have a good video card and RAM for that multi page “coverflow” web site view, I bet.

You piqued my curiosity. I just downloaded Safari 4 on a c. 2004 iBook G4; with a definitely not state-of-the-art graphics processor.

Coverflow works on this machine. At the moment, Safari is busily backfilling images of browser history (could take awhile on my minimal DSL line).

[Kimmers]

I felt stupid in asking in the question and even more stupid when I found it........attention Captain Obvious !!!!!

Thank you for the info and because of you I finally found it !!!!

[cowboyway]

Downloaded Safari 4. I like it, think I’ll keep it.

Q: What does it mean when the upper right corner of a page is dog eared to reveal a white star in a field of blue on the Top Sites page?

[Mr. Blonde]

Choice is never a bad thing. I don’ t particularly like FireFox myself. Opera comes with all of the addons I would use in FireFox standard.

So far this Beta has been really impressive.

[zeebee]

I think it means the page has changed since it was last visited.

I really like Safari 4. I see you can edit the Top Sites page display to show smaller or larger pages.

I just used the history feature to get back to your question after I saw the answer in another forum.

Another very cool feature- when you enlarge the text, the images also enlarge- like the iPhone.