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Safari 5 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

pknoll writes "Apple has released the fifth version of the Safari web browser, which adds several new features. Reader mode detects multiple-page articles and displays them in their entirety at the click of a button, and most importantly, there is now an official extension API."

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  1. Re:It's fully functional. by RivenAleem · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's the official site to test it on: www.goat.se

  2. Safari Speed & Chrome Speed by neoshroom · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just installed it and went to a website. I then opened Chrome, went to the same website, clicked and additional link and went back to the main page all in the time it took Safari to load up it's one page. That said, it does seem a little faster than Safari 4.

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  3. Re:Okay, so Cached vs Cached by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Additionally, activity monitor consistently shows Safari takes up more virtual memory and percentage usage of the CPU than Safari does.

    o_O Oh, noes! It's a CPU and memory eating monster! It consistently takes more virtual memory and CPU % than itself!

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  4. Re:It's fully functional. by RivenAleem · · Score: 0, Troll

    And it gets modded Troll :(

  5. Re:OK, so extensions... by RivenAleem · · Score: 0, Troll

    Score:5, Interesting for this comment? What's next?
     

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  6. That's why Safari users use ClickToFlash by SuperKendall · · Score: 0, Troll

    Firefox still beats them all with Adblock.

    Not when you are using ClickToFlash with Safari.

    As a bonus, you are not being an asshole to the site owber and blocking ALL ads. Just the processor dragging annoying ones.

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  7. Re:It's fully functional. by aliquis · · Score: 0, Troll

    ALL of the benchmarks used to show that safari is faster were written by apple.

    Oh, thanks, I didn't knew.

    Take their results with a grain of salt the size of texas.

    That however I already did. Been looking at enough of those Apple-new-product-page-with-benchmark to notice that they aren't reliable or usable at all.

    (Of course) they always only show the benchmarks which will show them the biggest advantage so you won't get an objective comparison (which render them useless), but in some cases it's been even worse. Like for instance than they claimed some old mac (G4?) was better for gaming than a computer from Dell (P4?)!
    How? Picking a Dell with an even lower-end graphics card (which imho even makes it a lie) than their mac had of course!
    Atleast compare the best vs the best, the same price vs the same price, or the same hardware against the same hardware but with different software solutions.

    Oh, and please don't call it "3.5" retina display with 960x480 resolution", call it: "Retina display: >300 DPI 3.5" IPS-panel with 960x480 resolution."