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Location: Phoenix AZ | Anyone running Safari 4 Beta ???
Looks like some very cool features. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | not yet...whats cool? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I just downloaded a version for Windows. Gonna load it up later tonight. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I have it for Windows. Speed is better than previous versions. I can not use my "back" button on my mouse.
The new "Top Sites" feature is pretty cool.
However Dave, I assume you are using a Mac exclusively now, so your version and experience will be different no doubt. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
not yet...whats cool? Marketing hype, but if this is true...
- integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards
- improved engine executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE 7
- loads HTML web pages 3 times faster than IE 7
- Top Sites display feature
- Tabs On Top display feature
Like I said, it could be all "spew", but I'll download it on Friday when I get home and give it a look. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | One Word...
Firefox!
Or is that two words? |
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Location: Up North | I'm trying it out right now, I've run Firefox exclusively for the past few years, but this seems alright so far, going to head over to YouTube and see how it handles video. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Interesting Apple marketing ...
They don't mention so much how they stack up against Firefox. If you read into their press release they finally say "Java engine 3x faster than Firefox and HTML loads 3x faster". Needs to be proven.
Seems like a lot of IE users have been switching to Firefox recently. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | This one did... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I've been using it since offered....
Working flawlessly to this point. It's fast. Pretty frigging remarkable for Beta.
Top Sites is great as is Cover Flow. Bookmarks features are very good |
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Location: Seattle | Working pretty good here, had one crash due to Gmal javascript errors. Needed to run Onyx to get Safari to launch again without hanging. Otherwise it's nice, a lot faster overall. Tabs on top took awhile to get used to though :) |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | I use firefox too. Don't see a reason for changin'. Kind of ain't broken, don't fix it. |
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Location: Texas | I have used Firefox for years, finally updated to the latest (Mac) version. It crashes several times a day, a highly unusual occurrence for any program on my Mac. It may be due to one of the many plug-ins I've installed, but I haven't isolated the problem yet. So, I am certainly tempted to give Safari another try… |
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Location: closely held secret | I've played with Safari4. Very pretty, but leaves a lot to be desired as far as functionality compared to FF.
Particularly annoying was having to 'customize' the toolbar just to add a button for the home page. And there's no refresh button. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I switched to FF like a year ago, and have no intention to switch back from IE. If I was running a Mac I'd probably be more inclined to try out Safari. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The refresh is on the right inside of the address window (the circular arrow) |
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Location: So. Cal. | Dave,
you should try these too, quicker and quickest:
http://www.latko.org/2009/02/04/firefox-31-intel-optimized-build/
http://webkit.org/
Safari 4 is nice, but not quite there yet. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by playadamas:
Safari 4 is nice, but not quite there yet. As others have said.. I agree, it's nice, but not quite ready for primetime yet. |
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Location: So. Cal. | Miles,
I didn't know you were a Mac person ...until now! Nice...
One more thing though, you have to be in Leopard to take advantage of many new tweaks... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | LOL... Not really a Mac or PC person, just a computer guy. Right tool, right job. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Might I just step in here. . . and remind folks that we are talking BETA...
Other than having to adopt some new "browsing impulses" to leverage the new bits... ahhh, never mind... |
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Location: Parrish, FL | To those of you using FF 3.1 Beta 2, are you experiencing problems with Hotmail? I can get it show my Inbox contents, but cannot access the individual emails.
Any suggestions?
I had been using FF 3.0.2 but is started crashing several times an hour so I moved to the Beta.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | FF 3.07 is rock solid |
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Location: Utah | Safari Beta is fine, but I guess I don't really see any big functional or speed changes. At least in terms of the basic forums and browsing. Maybe if I was doing complicated stuff or gaming.
The tab thing, actually I dislike it across the top. It's too far away. It was better lower down, below the main header rather than above it.
I'll keep it, though. Works fine for what I do. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | StephenT28,
I tried FF 3.0.7 and it too crashed constantly. It must be my machine, but I don't know what it would be. I recently reformatted the hard drive and have a fresh copy of XP w/ all the SP's installed.
Other than not being able to use Hotmail under the beta release, I love it. Right now I go to Outlook to read my Hotmail. Kind of a pain, but it works.
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