Safari 4 Arrives

      by Wyatt Walter

Today was Apple’s big World Wide Developer Conference which brought out several big news storied for Apple nerds like me. Among the new software and hardware announcements, Apple has brought Safari 4 out of beta and into full release. The browser is available for Mac OS X and Windows and offers a far superior native look and feel to the previous releases of Safari on Windows. I mentioned the new features of Safari 4 very briefly when the beta was released.

One of the biggest changes to the browser is that it brings the tabs above the navigation menus, much like Chrome. Unlike Chrome, however, the browser tabs act as the title bar (to move the window around) as well as allows you to do tab manipulation such as close tabs or move tabs around. Whether this change is good or bad has been debated around the web, but it does allow the browser window to not take up as much valuable screen real estate as it combines the space that would be used for showing tabs as well as the space for showing the title bar into one. Personally, I like it as my 13″ MacBook sometimes gets a little starved for screen space if I’m flipping between multiple windows.

UPDATE: Well.. I finally got around to actually installing Safari 4. Turns out they ditched the whole tabs above navigation idea as my tabs are all below the navigation buttons again. How disappointing..

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