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Some folks mentioned that it is slow. It doesn't seem slow to me at all. Pretty consistent with performance I've received from the latest Webkits, which would be in line with an improvement over the previous Safari. If I get nit-picky about it, some sites feel a touch slower (this one) and others feel faster (instant). It is probably in my head.

Do you (those folks) have slower internet connections or are you opening a mess of tabs, or perhaps media heavy sites you frequent? You need to re-cache your data, so the first loads will appear slower. After you've done your rounds things should be as snappy as ever again.

Breaks 1Password. This is nothing new. Odds are they'll do their usual hack of editing a file to permit installation in Safari 5 (it'll probably be posted in their forum—I can't remember what to do off the top of my head). And later official support will arrive in an update.
 
I know nobody else seems to care, but I still miss the SNAPBACK feature in Safari.

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Steve Jobs touted the feature when Safari was originally released, then they unceremoniously yanked it. Sad.

Snapback was moved from the Address Bar to the Search field. It's there. Has been all along. Just a quiet little feature.
 
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Safari 5 vs. Chrome 5
 
Well I did a screen recording where you can see how firefox loads the page instantly while safari lags...a lot.

That's the dumbest benchmark. You can't even see the loading bar for Firefox, and even if Firefox did load that faster it's just one benchmark. I'll take statistics and facts over some random guy's screencast any day.
 
I am amazed by the Reader feature. Not because it's incredibly useful but because I have absolutely no idea how it's actually able to figure out you are reading an article.
 
That's the dumbest benchmark. You can't even see the loading bar for Firefox, and even if Firefox did load that faster it's just one benchmark. I'll take statistics and facts over some random guy's screencast any day.

I never said take it as a benchmark. I just wanted people to know Safari lagged for me and wasn't snappy as people were saying.
 
I see nothing on Extensions on my copy of Safari 5, not even in the preferences. :confused:

From Apple website:

"When you’re ready to share your Safari Extensions, you can submit them to the Safari Extensions Gallery, which will open later this summer. The Safari Extensions Gallery will give users an easy place to find your extensions and download them from your website."
 
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Safari 5 vs. Chrome 5

I'm surprised Apple doesn't have AAC support in Safari 5, but I couldn't care less about OGG. How often do you run into an OGG file online?

After looking over that benchmark Chrome has very little over Safari. Not that I would ever use a browser made by Google.
 
Thank Goodness the old address loading is back. I was annoyed by the spinning circle in Safari 4 and even though I got used to it, I hope they don't go back to it.

Downloading Safari 5 now.
 
i thought safari reader was going to be an rss reader, something to replace google reader/netnewswire etc..

how are people using it now? the only rss i can seem to pull up is when i see 'rss' in the title bar, but that only lets me view rss for that one site
 
I was expecting Safari 5 to introduce the feature that Chrome touts where every window runs as a separate process. Maybe that will come in the future, or maybe the Safari team didn't feel that was necessary since it's mostly extensions that cause instability and extension support has been released with full sandbox support. Probably a reasonable solution to the "crashy browser" problem.
 
Safari 5 vs. Chrome 5
Eh, except numerous points are deducted for Apple's lack of support for standards like OGG (big shrug), and some of that other stuff looks like services which are provided fine through Quicktime, though I guess I could be mistaken there. I'm not familiar with every aspect of the HTML5 standard-in-progress.
 
i thought safari reader was going to be an rss reader, something to replace google reader/netnewswire etc..

how are people using it now? the only rss i can seem to pull up is when i see 'rss' in the title bar, but that only lets me view rss for that one site

Go onto a website like NY Times/ BBC news and load an article. Click view and then reader. It looks beautiful!
 
anyone else notice they changed the gradient on the top sites page or is it just me?

It's not just yours. I see it. And it seems like Top Sites is loading faster, which might actually make it become useful. I NEVER used it before...
 
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