Apple Gives Developers Safari 4 Preview
June 11th, 2008, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
Apple has given developers a preview copy of Safari 4 via the Apple Developer Connection website.
Safari 4 Developer preview is available for Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger and Microsoft Windows.
I downloaded this “small” package of 26.8 MB and it’s the same application of course, same shape.
This preview is also available for Tiger and Windows.
Safari 4 adds the ability to Save a webpage as an application. Also spotted in the Safari preferences is the ability to specify whether new tabs or windows open with; home page, same page, empty page or bookmarks.
Here’s a screenshot of Safari 4:
PS: the small iPod button is an application, CosmoPod.
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I tried Safari4 for about an hour. I reverted. I found these gripes (using MacOSX 10.5.6):
1. Very painfully slow both on startup and during rendering/page changeup.
2. Non-intuitive Top Pages interface: couldn’t handle my https//mail.google.com gmail page (a very frequently used – Top! – page): no straightforward easy-to-find help file on how to install a page of ones choice among the listed 9 during the “edit”
3. Doesn’t allow use of Inquisitor, hence, no alternative search engines.