Sharpe's Opinion
Tuesday, 24th Feb, 2009
Safari is the default browser on the Mac, and the Windows version is also rather excellent. It’s the most Standards-Compliant browser on the market and the one I use for day-to-day browsing. It’s also really fast.
This update has a lot of new features, most of them being improvements made by the WebKit team, but some are genuinely innovativeUI improvements, like the ‘favourite sites’ feature which presents your favourite sites as a grid of large thumbnails. They’ve also given the Windows version a ‘native look-and-feel’, which is to say it won’t appear so out of place on a Windows desktop any more.
Worth a peek, if you like good browsers.
Comments
Well I suppose your mileage may vary, and I can only really speak for the Mac version, not having a Windows computer to try it on, but for me it loads up and displays webpages far quicker than Firefox, and the javascript is extremely snappy. The speed at which it loads pages is of course dependent on the speed of your Internet connection.
Top Sites brought up some uncomfortable truths about my Internet usage… Suffice to say, the Twitter homepage and the stats page for this blog featured pretty heavily…
You will be flattered to hear that you are currently on my top sites page. But before your head gets too large, I did only install Safari this afternoon.
You’re right, I am flattered.
I shall endeavour not to let my new-found fame affect me.
Downloaded and trying it out now. It certainly looks good (dare I say very slightly crisper than Firefox?) and the Top Sites feature looks ready to make bookmarks a thing of the past. But fast? Not really.
Blue Eyes
February 24, 2009 at 5:41 pm