Sunday, March 1, 2009

Tech rants and elations: Safari 4

The new Safari 4 is here. Beta. I wonder if apple have done that before. It seems to have been given a different UI compared to the developer beta.

What I love:

Speed - It works really fast on most sites with web 2.0 attached to it. Its much faster than firefox 3.0.x, I am amazed.

Cover flow - I like cover flow. Useful to see your history and your bookmarks.

What I hate:

Looks - There are people I know that use safari to make their PC look and feel like Macs. They seem to be a bit pissed that the Mac look and feel has disappeared and the PC users get the Win Vista look and feel. I liked the Mac look and feel, and now it's gone :(. Some might want to suggest here that I should buy a Mac. Nope, no money in the budget for that.

Google search bar - Its a bit better now that search suggestions from google and your history are included. But there are certain cases where you will end up with a case where you will have to manually get rid of the search suggestions. I have yet to characterize this issue. :)

Cover flow - Everything in apple seems to have cover flow.

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