Safari 3.1 Released!

The new Safari has some cool new features. Definitely refreshing news for any developers like me. I hope full CSS3 support is added soon to all browsers. Me wants 3 piece background images

I'd rather have a speedy Safari browser than a drop shadow I'll never even look at.

Yep, Safari 3.1 is running extremely fast! Really loving it

The new version has the faster Javascript execution, which Firefox 3 beta has too. Firefox 3 is much faster than Firefox 2, but Safari still launches the fastest.

 

Please source the "but Safari still launches the fastest". Cnet has already done benchmarks specifically for javascript execution with firefox 3.0 beta 4 and safari 3.

 

Sorry mate, but honestly, who would care about Windows Vista?

 

I do since there is no performance being improved when not using drop shadows. It's just Apple refusing to follow the UI design guide lines that Windows has. Of course they don't seem to follow their own UI guide lines either by not having a menu bar at the top for iTunes I recall. You also seem to forget also that the vista gui is on your graphics card and not cpu dependant anymore. Unless of course if you turn off aero, which I'm not foolish to do.

I'm a huge supporter of open source so I usually use firefox on the 3 main desktop os's. On Windows, its nice to have a khtml browser... but it lacks 'openness'. Few addons like safariblock work on the windows side and downloads are slow compared to using downloadthemall on FF, but for browsing it is the fastest and nicest looking browser on windows. But editing things like wordpress doesn't work right.

 

Then again I'm on windows only to game and browse so gg.

 

EDIT: Glad to see more sites work with khtml though because of safari (like gmail).

Please source the "but Safari still launches the fastest". Cnet has already done benchmarks specifically for javascript execution with firefox 3.0 beta 4 and safari 3.

No official tests done. Just my experience/opinion. On my PC at home, a Celeron 1200mhz with 512mb RAM running Windows XP, the fastest launching browser is actually IE 6 (yuck), followed by Safari 3.1 (yay!), followed by Firefox 3 beta 4 (very nice browser), and then Firefox 2. (kinda slow).

 

I haven't tried out IE 7 or 8 beta, nor Opera, as Firefox + Safari are all I ever need.

No official tests done. Just my experience/opinion. On my PC at home, a Celeron 1200mhz with 512mb RAM running Windows XP, the fastest launching browser is actually IE 6 (yuck), followed by Safari 3.1 (yay!), followed by Firefox 3 beta 4 (very nice browser), and then Firefox 2. (kinda slow).

 

I haven't tried out IE 7 or 8 beta, nor Opera, as Firefox + Safari are all I ever need.

 

So then in your case IE was the fastest, not Safari as you had said before.

true. my bad.

Pretty cool going they got Safari loading fast in Windows with all their framework loading as well. IE is pretty much preloaded in some way anyway I suspect.

true. my bad.

Not that I use Firefox, but add Firefox preloader and see if IE still "launches" any faster.

 

Edit: Damn Forceman, you beat me to the same point.

Come on, Apple.. Is it really that hard to make your apps have drop shadows on Vista?

 

search for yzshadow. it adds drop shadows to every app, toolbar, you name it.

Safari is crashing alot after the updates, errors says it maybe the flash player. It never used to crash at all.

can someone provide me some external download link ?

it would be nice.

 

 

cheers

 

 

~R

Here you go, it's OS X version, not sure why you want it unless you want the Windows version.

 

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34115

Do it scores 100/100 on ACID3 render tests?

 

Mine is failing with 75/100, but I've installed files by hand on a 10.5.1.

This is normal. Safari 3.1 scores 75. It's the best of any released browser, and it's busy being improved. The latest Webkit is at 95/100.

i use firefox 2 & 3, safari and occasionally IE7. at the end of the day, the xtensions in firefox 2 are still the deal breaker for me. its nice to have such a high degree of customization. i can't wait for FF3 to come out of its beta stages so more add-on developers will start supporting it.