Early Thoughts on Safari 4 Beta
My early thoughts on the Safari 4 Beta:
- Page loads are much faster than in Safari 3 thanks to the Nitro Engine (I love how Apple names things.)
- From some casual usage over the past 30 minutes, no immediate issues with webpage stability or compatibility in Safari.
- Inquisitor won’t load in Safari 4. Some of its functionality has been added to Safari 4, but not all. I hope Yahoo updates it. (Did you know Yahoo was planning an iPhone version? I didn’t.)
- While I’m an avid tab user, I have have never used a browser with the tabs at the very top (a la Google Chrome). It will take some getting used to.
- My gut feeling is that Top Sites won’t be that useful for me. The Tumblr Dashboard and RSS already alert me to content updates. But, maybe it will be useful for others.
- Cover Flow for History looks somewhat useful, but paired with Full Search History it looks very useful.
Overall, a nice effort. And, I’m sure Apple is pleased they got this out before Google released a Chrome beta for Mac.
