Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"

CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."

Comments

Re:Notes on New Features

[tyrione]

Nitro has more street cred.

Squirrelfish sounds like a slimy little douchebag trying to get out from under a last call chick who has him pinned at the end of the bar.

Saying you beat IE isn't much

[kcbanner]

Its like saying you beat the kid with a fake leg at sprinting, or beating the a preschooler at a spelling bee.

Re:Impressions

[Colonel Korn]

- Scrolling this /. page is extremely slow in safari.
- The tabs in the window's title bar is just plain annoying and feels really out of place.
- Just like Google's Chrome this browser also doesn't blend in well with MS Windows UI. It's feels alien to the other programs.

-No, it's 30x faster than anything you've ever seen.
-That's Windows' fault and yours. Windows should be designed around Safari, not the other way around.
-Again, the Windows UI is just a thin shell meant to blend nicely with Safari. If it doesn't, then it's Windows fault.

Firewire?

[robogobo]

Requirements:

Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWireî

um, looks like the latest Macbook isn't up to spec. nice one, Apple.