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safari 4

i know i'm very opinionated, and for that, i won't blame you for disregarding this post. if you use windows, you can also disregard this post. or you can read it and be jealous.

so with the big apple keynote yesterday, they announced the release of safari 4, the newest version of apple's own web browser.

to begin, i should say that i've been a very loyal user of camino, the apple specific version of firefox. it's an app that is clearly developed for macs, rather than firefox or opera, which feel like a windows app. additionally, camino, like firefox, is an open source project, which means they don't charge for anything. they make most of their money from google (and we all know google doesn't charge for anything! well, almost everything).

more importantly, camino and firefox support web standards, unlike some evil browsers.

anyway, i downloaded the new version of safari (download) and gave it a whirl.

i can't believe how fast this browser is. it renders pages like they're on your local machine, and apparently stores a lot in a local cache (it must! it's so fast!). it's got some neat bells and whistles which i don't much care about (they use a coverflow type app for browsing your history). safari also loads up your keychain in such a way that is far more sophisticated way than any browser i've ever used.

i suggest you try it out.

June 9, 2009 @ 5:32am . 61 views . 8 comments