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[Antony]

Apple has released the final shipping version of Safari 4.0, available for Mac and Windows PCs. Apple claims Safari 4.0 be the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser.

Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3. Other new features include Top Sites, for a visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects. If you are a Windows user, Safari 4 will look very home as it features Windows native look and feel.

[Fulvio]

Unlike the previous public beta which had hung up trying to import Firefox settings, and asked me if I wanted to make Safari default, this build did not ask me for anything, taking over as defaults. As for the bookmarks, it imported the IE Favorites, but no Firefox bookmarks.
It placed SillyDog701 and Yahoo in its Bookmarks bar. Basically, it is not my program.
I have no idea about speed, because it is not comparable to Firefox. It is set up like Google Chrome, in many ways. I don't see a choice to open a page in another tab.
In fact, I don't see tabs. What is Cntrl-click? or anything-click?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Safari4.0.4, Zone Alarm; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[Antony]

[Fulvio]

I like the way Firefox and Google Chrome give you the chance to open a blank tab, which may be filled with the desired link, rather trying to figure out how to do it. My preferences indicate Cntrl-click. I cannot understand how this is done. A search says that cntrl-click is the same as right click in a two button mouse. Ok, I just found that right clicking on an existing bookmark brings up a dropdown which includes Open in a new tab.
Absolutely nothing happened, other than giving me a blank page, with the same post reply address. I was able to get back to my original address by selecting Cntrl+Alt+Del. As for speed, Safari is pathetic. It takes seconds just to enter what I am typing, always falling behind.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Safari4.0.4, Zone Alarm; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[iJohnE]

Fulvio, press the ctrl button, and click the link.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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I'm a PC.
Desktop: Dell Dimension 8250, Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 256MB PC1066 RDRAM, 80GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce MX 420.
User of: SeaMonkey 2.0.x , Firefox 3.5.x and Thunderbird 2.0.x .

[Fulvio]

I am giving a few links, below about Safari 4.0, which apparently includes fixes for a whopping 50 security issues. Safari for Windows versions 3.x are unsafe.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=445&tag=btxcsim
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=283&tag=btxcsim

Don't get me wrong, Safari may be fine, but it does not work well, in my hands.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090610 SeaMonkey/2.0b1pre

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Safari4.0.4, Zone Alarm; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17