Safari 4 beta

Steve · Feb 26, 2009, 13:50:25

Some interesting claims regarding speed and compliance being made about the new beta http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/safari_4_beta_lands/

Rik · Feb 26, 2009, 14:38:10

Time will tell, I guess, Steve. I saw nothing to attract me to Safari when I last took a look, they'll have had to make big strides to get me to move.

Steve · Feb 26, 2009, 14:50:08

I have not used a previous version its certainly slick and its similar in view to itunes listing you top sites akin to the "album view" I suppose it looks good on an imac etc.

Rik · Feb 26, 2009, 15:12:20

Everything looks good on an iMac, Steve.

trophymick · Feb 26, 2009, 18:28:43

I've just tried it on XP, it is fast, but the bookmarks system is a pain to configure.

Managed to import from FF no problem, but arranging them as I want them, phew!

Rik · Feb 26, 2009, 18:33:24

They always seem to make life hard when it comes to organising things, don't they, Mick.

Lance · Feb 26, 2009, 19:32:11

Unless you want to organise things in the same way as them, of course!

john · Feb 26, 2009, 23:14:51

Does anyone know if it looks better than the previous version ?

Sebby · Feb 26, 2009, 23:24:54

Quote from: Rik on Feb 26, 2009, 14:38:10
Time will tell, I guess, Steve. I saw nothing to attract me to Safari when I last took a look, they'll have had to make big strides to get me to move.

Same here, but I must admit, it's looking better. I'm still not convinced it's going to be all that popular on Windows, but it might at least stop Mac users using Firefox.

Sebby · Feb 26, 2009, 23:25:39

Quote from: john on Feb 26, 2009, 23:14:51
Does anyone know if it looks better than the previous version ?

It's a difficult one. I thought I'd prefer it looking more like Windows, but I'm not sure at the moment.

Gary · Feb 27, 2009, 09:12:22

After all the security issues and bugs with the previous windows version, Im in no hurry to have it on my pc, great on a mac though

JB · Feb 27, 2009, 10:42:37

Does anyone know if there is an 'adblock' type plugin for Safari running on Windows? I have Googled and the three plugins I have seen seem to indicate they are for MacOS.