Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7" 465
CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."
Re:Notes on New Features (Score:5, Funny)
Nitro has more street cred.
Squirrelfish sounds like a slimy little douchebag trying to get out from under a last call chick who has him pinned at the end of the bar.
Saying you beat IE isn't much (Score:5, Funny)
How does firefox maintain competitive advantage? (Score:4, Funny)
If IE and Safari can look at Firefox's source code and see exactly how FF implement's something, how can FF maintain a competitive advantage as a core browser. By core browser I mean without all the plugins/themes/extensions. IE/Safari already have a distribution advantage in that the browser comes with the OS. I'm going to a assume that the folks over at Mozilla would not declare victory if Apple/MSFT decided one day to reskin and rename FF and package it with their OS.
It's a unfair advantage that the OS vendors can see the source code of FF, however the reverse is not true. So if Safari has this great performance, how can the FF figure out how Safari does it?
Re:Top sites (Score:1, Funny)
The new top sites feature is cool. It shows the sites you visit most often all in a window.
Quite embarrassing if you ask me.
Re:How does firefox maintain competitive advantage (Score:1, Funny)
And what if IE has great performance, too, how will Firefox ever be able to keep up with that?
Kills Growl Mail.app Plugin (Score:3, Funny)
So it looks like the Safari 4 beta causes the growl plugin for the mail.app to crash the mail.app
great.
Re:Impressions (Score:5, Funny)
- Scrolling this /. page is extremely slow in safari.
- The tabs in the window's title bar is just plain annoying and feels really out of place.
- Just like Google's Chrome this browser also doesn't blend in well with MS Windows UI. It's feels alien to the other programs.
-No, it's 30x faster than anything you've ever seen.
-That's Windows' fault and yours. Windows should be designed around Safari, not the other way around.
-Again, the Windows UI is just a thin shell meant to blend nicely with Safari. If it doesn't, then it's Windows fault.
Re:Classic Apple performance claim inflation (Score:4, Funny)
Damn; you got served by a 5UID.
Tabs on top? (Score:3, Funny)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
F*** you, Google, now everyone's going to start using this f***ed up idea.
Re:Saying you beat IE isn't much (Score:3, Funny)
I find it's much easier to go up against a lot of people. I haven't fought just one person for so long... I've been specializing in groups, fighting gangs for local charities... that kind of thing. You see, you use different moves when you're fighting half a dozen people than when you only have to worry about one. So just one person would give me so much trouble.
Re:30x faster than IE7, so what... (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe you do, but I shave to keep my ballsack silky.
And just because you have to design for the LCD doesn't mean you have to always use the LCD. Life is short. Use a better browser. I don't care which one, but only stoop to the LCD when you absolutely have to.
Re:More Fun Demos (Score:1, Funny)
Yes! Layla's a good looking bird and wears awesome short skirts all the time, sometimes she bends over
Okay that's it, I quit. I can't take the misogyny any more! No more will I take this constant stream of puerile behaviour and lechery!
Re:30x faster than IE7, so what... (Score:2, Funny)
I read your acronym as Liquid Crystal Display 3 times until I realized you were saying Lowest Common Denominator.
We so need a "commonly used acronyms on /." refresher course.
Of course this is coming from a guy (me) who still reads IANAL as "I anal"
Firewire? (Score:5, Funny)
Requirements:
Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWireî
um, looks like the latest Macbook isn't up to spec. nice one, Apple.
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)