Safari 4 Public Beta
There’s a treat at the Apple website: Apple Releases Beta of Safari 4.
Here’s a direct link to the download page.
First geeked-out impressions: the Javascript engine is screaming fast. Pages with a lot of Javascript are much quicker. LGF seems to work just dandy, and I haven’t encountered any rendering problems on any other websites yet.
And the new Top Sites feature will be useful — but it would be more useful if you could choose which sites were displayed.
UPDATE at 2/25/09 1:15:10 pm:
CNET UK has run the numbers, and Safari 4 is now the fastest browser on the planet: Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3. (Hat tip: Izzy Dunne.)
UPDATE at 2/25/09 1:21:19 pm:
Just noticed something — accesskeys don’t work?
Frank says: