Safari 4.0 for Windows: Should I try it out?

After more than a week of launch, Safari is actually the fastest web browser in the world, according to Apple's own ad. Take a look at the main features in this latest version and decide for yourself whether to use Safari .

Initial feelings

It seems that simplification is the trend of today's web browsers. If you already know Google Chrome with an extremely 'space-saving' interface, you'll now see Safari 4 with similar features. Unlike Safari 3, Safari 4's title bar has been placed on top of the browser window and controls have been arranged in the most neat way.

New position of tabs on Safari

New features are unique

In the first use, you may be surprised to see the Top Site feature, providing the popular website in the form of extremely beautiful 3D thumbnails, but unfortunately this feature also 'consumes' many resources of system. However, Safari now boots faster than the previous version 3.0, plus the speed of surfing the web better than IE and Firefox, you will really be impressed right from the first use.

Unique Top Sites feature

In addition, Safari gives you Cover Flow, a feature that lets you view bookmark lists as 3D thumbnails. This is quite a new and unique feature of Safari.

Beautiful Cover Flow feature

As expected, judging that Apple products are always aesthetically pleasing has never been 'backward'.

Toolbar

Like IE7 and 8, Safari now has a function button on the right side of the toolbar. You can open a regular menu bar, but most functions can be used via toolbar buttons. This reduces the space occupied by a menu with long and complicated options.

However, Safari was really perfect

That is the ability to manually edit and intervene the properties inside Safari. Unlike Mac users who just fill in simple commands, Windows users are "confined" to whatever Apple gives them and accept it if they don't have the ability and qualifications to . dig deep into the program.

Another omission can be easily recognized as the loading bar to display the% of web pages that have been loaded for some reason being removed and instead just a rotating animation to announce that website loading. Perhaps Apple believes that its web browser is so fast that users don't spend too much time figuring out how much the site has loaded.

You probably remember, when Firefox was still in version 2.0, users were "complaining" a lot about the browser 's' resources', until later updates, this was gradually overcome. And IE and Chrome are always better than Firefox, which is the level of resource usage and suitable for weak configuration computers. But Safari 4.0 has a higher level of resource consumption than Firefox before, which is a pity because the new aesthetic features are the cause of this situation. And hopefully in the near future, Apple will be mindful of 'popular' users with configurable computers that are not too high to overcome this resource-hungry situation.

With these shortcomings, why should Windows users still use Safari 4 instead of Firefox or Chrome?

Safari for Windows has all the functionality for the Mac version. With great functions such as Top Sites, CoverFlow bookmarks, Web Inspector, super fast surfing speed by using the new Nitro engine (notably it is faster even with not too high speed transmission) and tasks. The most advanced technology . will really make a big difference. Besides, Safari is the only browser on Windows that you can synchronize with MobileMe (software that syncs Apple devices like iPhone, iPod Touch or iMac).


If you've ever tried Safari in the past but don't like it, give Safari 4.0 a chance. If you've never seen Safari before, this is the best time to get used to the fastest web browser in the world. Download Safari 4.0 Beta for free here .