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Safari 4
Posted on June 10th, 2009 2 comments
Apple released Safari 4 yesterday at WWDC and it has been out in Beta for a few months now. It is available or Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard as well as Windows XP and Vista. It is apparently the world’s fastest browser. It offers 150 new features, which you can read about on Apple’s Website.
I have read from news sources like this one that Safari 4 is reliable and that Apple has fixed the “crashy” parts of Safari 4, but I thought I would tell you how it has gone on my own system.
I downloaded the Safari 4 Beta shortly after it came out. I liked the new look– tabs at the top and the top sites feature, where you see the sites you visit most often when you open a new tab. Recently, Safari stopped working. At first it was way too slow, and then whenever I started it up, it would just spin and spin. I switched over to Firefox, but I missed Safari 4.
Needless to say, I was excited to see that Apple released Safari 4 officially yesterday. I started up the installation before I went to bed and when I woke up this morning, it was no further along. I stopped the install and tried it again this afternoon. The installation went beautifully this time, but it got a bit funky on the restart and I had to do that manually.
I started up Safari after the restart and it almost instantly froze. I force quit it and started it up again. It took a minute to load everything, but since then, it has been working. It is not the world’s faster browser in my opinion, but it is working now. It has a nice look, but I am still not totally sold on its reliability.
I am using an older computer and that may be why Safari 4 and I keep clashing. Are you using Safari 4? What has your experience been with it? Love? Hate?
If you haven’t downloaded it yet and are thinking you’d like to give it a try, I’d recommend downloading a backup browser, like Mozilla Firefox, in case your experience is similar to mine.
2 responses to “Safari 4”
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So far so good here on a 2007 MacBook, 2008 iMac Extreme, and 2007 Mac Mini. I think the tabs are a little ‘dark’ for my taste, so can be a mite difficult to distinguish in certain lighting conditions. Other than that, not bad. IT took me a bit to figure out where the ‘refresh’ button went (in the URL window). 1Password, Evernote, FoxMarks, CoolIris plugins all continue to work fine with their latest updates. There is a small issue with using online blackboards such as Johnson County CC uses in that Safari doesn’t properly display the left column menu for users, just the icons, whereas Firefox 3 displays the icons and text in column as it’s designed to do.
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jacob June 10th, 2009 at 16:44