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.
I hate it when Safari opens a new window while I’m browsing like always (tabs only).
It seems Apple has heard me by adding a terminal command to Safari 3.1 that will definitely fix the issue of some pages that opens in a new window (like Gmail’s).
Close Safari, Open Terminal and copy/paste this command line:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Once that’s done you must restart Safari in order for this to take effect.
This awesome icon replacement for Safari is free.
Created by Jonas Resk, this superbly designed icon will give your Safari’s application in the dock a very modern look!
This icon is compatible for Mac & PC.
You can download it by clicking here.
You’ll find right inside the archive a set of this icon in 5 different colors and a CandyBar ready package.
iCab is back, written better than ever, with multiple languages support (even Chinese is available).
This browser had his time of glory when we were running Mac OS 9.
Its specificity was its low consumption of RAM.
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Security-fix update for Safari, including a fix for Charlie Miller’s contest-winning exploit from CanSecWest.
As of Safari 3.1, double-clicking on a free area in the tab bar opens a new tab. I’ve wanted this feature since it was introduced in Firefox, and now my favorite browser has it, too.
When Apple released the 10.5.2 update I was so excited, but even after trying to download the disk image (354 mb), I got a corrupted file in my dowload folder.
First thought that came to my mind: “I need a download manager”. And what was my surprise when I tried Speed Download! Downloads are faster than ever, the user interface is superb and the file I got was perfectly working.
After restarting my Mac, the only thing I wanted to do was to reward the developers of this superb software solution for OS X, so I went to the website and discovered how powerful this application is!
Basically here are the major capabilities Speed Download has:
In this image you can see the super cool icon this application has, but also the features it has.
- full integration to OS X with Safari, iTunes and iDisk support
- .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity
- a FANTASTIC encrypted file sharing system between Macintosh users (who have Speed Download)
- a FTP client!
The latest version of SD 5 has an iTunes-like user interface that will probably charm any OS X user:
In terms of performances, the application dramatically increases the download speed and of course enables you to pause/resume any download (without being obliged to start from the begining if Safari 3 beta ever crashes again in the middle of a download).
You can consider this application as a “must have” like all the other applications with a review on this blog. Once again, I’d like to thank Yazsoft for bringing us such a beautiful, multi-function, OS X integrated and powerful application who saved me from the error -4960 (corrupted disk image) and my time and patience to get the latest OS X updates:
You can download a free trial version here.
