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Safari 3 Beta

Yesterday, Apple released Safari 3 beta. Mainly, it makes Safari available for Microsoft Windows. There are a few enhancements that Mac people might notice.

1. Increased speed – Safari is apparently faster than it was, but if I run Safari 2 and Safari 3 side by side, I don’t notice much of a difference.
2. Bookmark improvements – Bookmark All Tabs (I already had this in Firefox), nifty search field in Bookmarks “Book” is pretty handy.
3. Tab changes – Now, you can rearrange tabs on the tab bar by dragging them around. I can do that, though, with the keyboard in Firefox, as well as with the mouse. Still no love with the key commands, though. But, now Safari warns you if you try to quit with multiple tabs open.
4. Resizable Textarea – This is certainly an improvement to Safari for bloggers and forum users, but I have the same functionality via a plug-in in Firefox.

The new Safari hesitated for a minute before rendering the Acid 2 test. The spellchecker also likes to highlight HTML tags (like <ol>). Not a bad release. I’m hoping for some kind of plug-in architecture and configurable tab keying commands for the full release of Safari 3.

But, now Safari warns you if you try to quit with multiple tabs open.

Finally!