Safari 4 Beta, Web Browser Tercepat dan Tercanggih Saat Ini

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Lagi iseng jalan-jalan si sebuah situs berita sambil nunggu ngantuk, eh taunya nemu berita kalau Apple sudah merilis Web Browser terbarunya, yaitu
Safari 4 versi Beta.

Dengan rilisnya Safari 4 ini, diyakini bahwa persaingan atau peperangan di antara web browser akan semakin ramai, setelah sebelumnya Mozilla merilis Firefox 3 dan Microsoft merilis Internet Explorer 8 RC1.

Safari 4 ini diklaim akan menjadi browser tercepat mengalahkan para pesaingnya. Wah kayanya ada kemungkinan gua berpindah haluan ke safari nih.  Disebutkan di situs resmi Apple, Safari 4 dilengkapi dengan “Nitro Engine” baru yang dapat menjalankan/mengeksekusi JavaScript 30 kali lebih cepat dari Internet Explorer 7 dan 3 kali lebih cepat Firefox 3. Dan juga disebutkan bahwa  Safari 4  memiliki kecepatan membaca situs HTML,  3 kali lebih cepat dari Internet Explorer 7 dan hampir 3 kali lebih cepat dari Firefox 3. Nah kalau kaya gini kan pasti mantap dah buat browsing-browsing.

Beberapa fitur yang hadir dalam Safari 4 ini :

• Top Sites
  Thanks to Top Sites, you can enjoy a stunning, at-a-glance preview of your favorite websites without lifting a finger. Safari 4 Beta tracks the sites you browse and ranks your favorites, presenting up to 24 thumbnails on a single page. You can even customize the display by pinning a favorite site to a specific location in the grid. That locks it into position, so you know just where to find it every time you open Top Sites.Wonder which sites have changed since your last visit? Sites with a star in the upper-right corner have new content. A single click opens the page and updates its thumbnail. Whenever you want to return to your ever-evolving Top Sites page, just click the new Top Sites button in the bookmarks bar.
• Cover Flow
  New to Safari, Cover Flow offers a highly visual way of reviewing your site history and bookmarked sites, presenting full-page previews of the websites that look exactly as they did when you last visited them.One look is all you need to recognize the site you want to visit. Simply flip through website previews in Cover Flow the same way you flip through album art in iTunes. Directional arrows let you browse forward and back. Or you can quickly flip through multiple sites using the slider. And when you find the site you want, simply click to open it.
• Full Search History
  With Full History Search and Cover Flow, what you see is where you went. Safari introduces a dramatic new way to revisit sites, letting you flip through full-page previews of the sites you visited in the past. You may not have total recall, but Safari does, automatically storing all the text and a thumbnail of every page in your history. That makes it easy for Safari to get results even if you remember little about the site you’re searching for.Just type a word or phrase in the History Search field in Top Sites, and Safari quickly presents you with a list of possibilities. In fact, you can search for anything that was on a page you visited, even photo captions. To jog your memory, Safari presents the sites it finds in Cover Flow, giving you the opportunity to spot the right site on sight.
• Tabs on TopTabs offer a great way to have multiple pages open at the same time in a single browser window. And to switch back and forth with a click. Now Safari takes tabbed browsing to new heights — to the very top of the browser window — instantly providing more room for you to enjoy the sites you’re reading.Safari also makes it easy to create and manage tabs. To create a new tab, just click the + button in the upper-right corner of the Safari window. Want to rearrange tabs? Simply drag a tab by its handle and drop it in a new location in the tab bar. You can also use the handle to drop a tab into another Safari window. Or quickly create a new window by dragging the tab out to the desktop. You can create a bookmark from a group of tabs. Or even tell Safari to open a set of tabs every time you open a new Safari window.

Total ada 150 fitur dari Safari 4 ini, lengkapnya bisa diliat disini

Versi beta ini dapat didownload di situs resminya Apple dengan besar file sekitar 25MB, sambil dicek juga minimum requirement untuk instalasinya.

Windows Requirement :

• Any PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista
• 500-MHz Pentium-class processor or better
• 256MB of RAM
• Top Sites and Cover Flow require a compatible DirectX 9.0 video card with 64MB of video RAM