Apple outs Safari 4 Beta

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
Apple outs Safari 4 Beta

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  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    The download page is broken in Firefox, IE8, and Chrome. I guess only Safari and Opera users are allowed to have it. :rolleyes:
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Works for me in FF3. YOUR DOING IT RONG
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Worked for me when I posted the news article as well.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2009
    Yep worked for me and the browser is working for me right now.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2009
    I'll also add. Looks sweet supposed to be faster, but I'm not noticing it. However also seems to be a bit of a memory pig. My FF3 with plugins is around 50mb, Safari is averaging 90mb. Safari also seems to be using CPU cycles when I'm just sitting on a page not doing anything where as FF isn't.

    I should also note I'm talking about Safari on Windows, not mac.
  • mondimondi Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    kryyst wrote:
    I'll also add. Looks sweet supposed to be faster, but I'm not noticing it. However also seems to be a bit of a memory pig. My FF3 with plugins is around 50mb, Safari is averaging 90mb. Safari also seems to be using CPU cycles when I'm just sitting on a page not doing anything where as FF isn't.

    I should also note I'm talking about Safari on Windows, not mac.

    I'm seeing about the same memory footprint with OSX.

    I sampled the Safari process, and it looks like the CPU cycles when idling are related to Flash (Flash_EnforceLocalSecurity and various timers) and the garbage collector, which seems to be running pretty aggressively. If I browse to a plain page without flash - the CPU usage drops to zero pretty quickly.

    These tabs are going to take some getting used to.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    It works now. As of this morning, it did not. It was collaborated by several other web developers on Twitter.
  • SonorousSonorous F@H Fanatic US Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    I hate the tabs at the top instead of under the address bar. I didn't look really far to see if it could be set to the older tab system, but after a peek in the prefs I saw no option. Uninstalled.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    http://www.macworld.com/article/139004/safari4_tabbar.html
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2009
    That tab fix only works for OS X. Which is another issue with Safari for Windows. None of the tweaks and pluggins for Safari work in the windows version so it's like getting half a browser. In OS X Safari is looking sweet and the ability to now sync up my bookmarks between firefox and Safari means Safari is again usefull to me on my mac. But for windows Safari is still pretty much a tech demo when compared to FF.
  • Dinesh
    edited February 2009
    works fine with windows 7 build 7000.
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