Safari 4.0 changes, for better or worse?

When I first tried Safari (I think it was 3.0 beta) in a PC, I hated it immediately.

Now that I'm using 4.0 in OSX, I love it. Fast, feels lightweight. Better than Firefox and Google chrome in my PCs...
 
looman9635 said:
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I really liked tabs at the top and the fact that a quick terminal tweak would give me a blue progress bar. Good old time machine has me back on the beta where I'm staying till Apple give me these as options
 
Nick99 said:
I really liked tabs at the top and the fact that a quick terminal tweak would give me a blue progress bar. Good old time machine has me back on the beta where I'm staying till Apple give me these as options
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Same here. If Apple won't give me the choice, I will create the option to choose in my own way.
 
Aronnax said:
;-) and 49 Safari security holes as well - it is a strange and stupid idea ;-)
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Strange and stupid comment. And what are the security holes you speak of? This route only replaced the Safari UI, not WebKit, etc. Besides the biggest security hole is the user behind the keyboard. ;)
 
Hm, it seems that when I open lots of tabs in Safari, not all of them will load UNTIL I've actually clicked them. It gets slightly annoying; sometimes I'd even have to refresh the link in that tab in order for the site to open.

Anyone else experiencing this?
 
jon08 said:
Hm, it seems that when I open lots of tabs in Safari, not all of them will load UNTIL I've actually clicked them. It gets slightly annoying; sometimes I'd even have to refresh the link in that tab in order for the site to open.

Anyone else experiencing this?
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I can confirm that. I guess this is because Apple wants it not to execute flash other than the frontmost tab to be low on resources. So IMO this is why Safari renders faster than the other browsers. (except Opera with Turbo on)
 
hmm can anyone tell me there was a option in beta to switch to user type as in Internet explorer 8 or firefox or opera ..... i guess they have removed that also
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I just gave in and used Time Machine basically for the first time ever and grabbed the Beta.

What a difference. I'm not going back to the official 4.0 unless we can have tabs on top and the progress bar. IMO the beta is the best browser I have ever used.
 
KapitanIksrog said:
I just gave in and used Time Machine basically for the first time ever and grabbed the Beta.

What a difference. I'm not going back to the official 4.0 unless we can have tabs on top and the progress bar. IMO the beta is the best browser I have ever used.
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Where can I get and safely download the beta version?
 
safari 4.0 and 4.0.1 crash constantly, and it's slow. It was great for a week, now it's just terrible.

Getting 3-5 crashes per session on two different computers on two different networks.
 
soo computer savey.....

JoeKozy said:
I've just installed the final build of Safari 4 (as opposed to the beta). The most obvious change is abandoning the tabs-on-top-of-window concept, as well as the right hand side of the address bar coming up with a 'loading' section when pages are loading, but as far as i can tell it doesn't provide a true progress bar.

Anyone noticed any other changes?
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double life leadin liar
 
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