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Linked by Kroc Camen on Tue 24th Feb 2009 14:55 UTC

Apple released the Safari 4 Beta today. Features: Tabs on top. "Top Sites" 'Speed Dial' feature. "Smart" address/search fields. HTML5 Canvas. HTML5 Audio/Video (though no Ogg). Acid 3. CSS Animation/Gradients/Masks/Reflection. CSS Web Fonts. New "Nitro" Javascript engine - "Up to 4 times faster than Firefox 3.1". 'Native' look and native font rendering on Windows Vista/XP. I can think of only one thing: "Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!"

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Tabs

by google_ninja on Tue 24th Feb 2009 19:24 UTC

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2006-02-05

Never thought I would say it, but safari is now in contention for the browser I use full time on windows.

The one issue is the tabs. They obviously copied chrome, but came up so short it almost hurts. There is no ability to reorder the tabs, middle click does not close them, dragging the only tab out of a window does not destroy the window, and the animation, while nice, is way too slow.

That being said, this is an awesome release. I would use it over firefox any day, but I will keep chrome for my day to day browsing for now

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RE: Tabs

by dragossh on Tue 24th Feb 2009 19:27 in reply to "Tabs"

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2008-12-16

There is no ability to reorder the tabs

Click the grip and drag

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RE[2]: Tabs

by google_ninja on Tue 24th Feb 2009 19:30 in reply to "RE: Tabs"

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2006-02-05

Yeah, I just noticed that like, two seconds ago.

I don't know why they are going for Titlebar Mode and Tab Mode. I much prefer the chrome way of always tab mode, with the window just being a bucket to group tabs in. If they did that I would drop chrome in a second.

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RE: Tabs

by bannor99 on Tue 24th Feb 2009 22:06 in reply to "Tabs"

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2005-09-15

dragging the only tab out of a window does not destroy the window, and the animation, while nice, is way too slow.

That being said, this is an awesome release. I would use it over firefox any day, but I will keep chrome for my day to day browsing for now

Really? The auto-destruct of a Safari 4 window when the last tab is dragged out works on WinXP.

The animation isn't all that slow but it could be faster.
We'll see how it works for the release candidates.

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RE[2]: Tabs

by google_ninja on Tue 24th Feb 2009 22:15 in reply to "RE: Tabs"

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2006-02-05

So here is the scenario

You have one window full of tabs, for whatever reason window 2 gets spawned on top of window 1. In chrome, as soon as the last tab detaches, window 2 disappears, leaving window 1 free to accept its new tab. In safari it doesn't.

Believe it or not, this is a situation that comes up a hell of alot, at least for me.

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