Today the Apple's Safari 4 is officially leaving beta stage. It was announced by Apple's Bertrand Serlet at the WWDC this morning. Serlet also claims that Safari 4's Nitro will be the fastest JavaScript engine of any browser on the market. He showed a chart showing that Safari 4 is 7.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 where Chrome 2 is only 5.3 times faster. Safari 4 will also loads JavaScript 3x faster than Safari on the iPhone, Serlet said. New web technologies such as HTML 5 audio and video tags will be supported in Safari 4.
What's new in Safari 4?
1. Top Sites - if you open new tab or instance, you favorite websites are displayed on matrix format the same way how Google Chrome do it.
2. Cover Flow - flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums in iTunes.
3. Full History Search - easily search for sites you visited before
4. Nitro Engine - as Apple claim, surf the web with the world's fastest browser engine.
5. New Windows Native Look and Feel - safari blends on your Vista and XP.
6. Developer Tools - various development tools are included.
Safari can be downloaded at Apple download website.
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