Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Safari 4: First impressions

The tab bar has been moved to the top of the address bar. While this is space-saving in that it is now merged with the title bar, I see one major inconvenience with it: The `new tab' button is awfully close to the top right screen corner when Safari is maximized, and if you have that corner active it's rather annoying.

They certainly took a page out of the Firefox book with listing the top used sites first when you type into the address bar. I am not so happy, however, that Safari first lists the page title, then the actual address (and that one is grayed out so it's hard to see).

Rendering of new pages seems to work nicely so far. I'll have to fiddle around more to see what breaks and what doesn't.

It seems to be a bit more resource-greedy on startup, but not by a large margin, and I'd have to see how it behaves on the long term to really compare things.

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