Apple has released its First public beta of Safari 4, designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. It introduced sophisticated design elements that made browsing a joy. Easy to use, Safari stayed out of your way and let you effortlessly navigate from site to site.

This new Safari includes Nitro Engine, that makes it worlds fastest web browser, Safari outraces Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome. On even the most demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari delivers blazingly fast performance thanks to the industry’s most advanced rendering technologies.

Safari executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and more than 3 times faster than Firefox 3 based on performance in leading industry benchmark tests: iBench and SunSpider.

Features

Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a wall of previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click.

Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks “as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes

Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites they’ve seen before

Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new one.

Built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility

A new Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.

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