Being an Apple fan, back in 2003 when Apple released the public beta I didn’t hesitate to download it and give it a test drive. Of course, I couldn’t look back. There are some things that were missing but I didn’t care. It was a browser that delivered. Now, with this week’s final release of Safari 4 lots of things have changed. They added a very nice new icon of a envelope to do Mail links – you still can use the shortcut I mentioned here. Also, now they also have a very much improved “web Inspector”, that works very much like it’s FireFox equal Firebug. Above all, it’s a fast browser!
I do install plugins for Safari, so before upgrading I uninstalled SafariStand. I have it for two features: auto closing of the downloads window and to force the links to open in a new tab (same window) not on a new window like Safari usually does. After testing Safari 4, I decided to install the plugin (they had a version that worked perfectly with the beta version) and so far not a problem in sight.
Give Safari 4 a chance… It’s a well behaved browser that rarely crashes!