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Feb 2009

Safari 4 Announced

Safari 4 Beta for Mac and Windows announced the beta release of the new and improved Safari 4 unleashed by Apple earlier today.
Apple claims Safari 4 is the world’s fastest browser; that its new Nitro JavaScript engine executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Internet Explorer 7; and loads HTML Web pages up to 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 7.

System Requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel processor or PowerPC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire..
  • 256MB of RAM.
  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard or later and Security Update 2009-001, or Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger or later

New Features:
You can see below, it displays an array of pages I visit frequently in a highly visual grid, making it easy to get to my favorite sites with a single click.

safari

While the little Search History field in the lower right corner of the Top Sites window, well, Safari 4 displays them with Cover Flow. You heard me right!

coverflow