Safari 3 Beta
I’ve seen a lot of excitement over the release of Safari 3 for Windows, but Im quite surprised to see relatively little written about the OS X release. Well, here’s what I think about it: I freakin’ love it. (N.B. please excuse me if I’m messing up my versions of Safari, I must have used it for all of 2 minutes when I got my mac to download FireFox)
I tried it out as soon as I could and I loved it. I’ve now switched fully from FireFox 2, and I’ve no regrets. The only thing I’m missing are mouse gestures. If you’ve never used these before, basically you click and drag with your right mouse button in a particular direction and something happens.
For example if I clicked and dragged to the left, the browser would go back. Drag down and up and the browser reloads the page. You get the message. I’m sure this will be coming to Safari 3 at some point, but I really do miss it.
Now for the good stuff. The thing that sold me on Safari? Being able to drag tabs into their own window, or being able to drag them onto other windows. Beautiful. My favourite thing is the ability to merge all windows into one single tabbed window.
I know it’s been in Safari for ages, but not being able to use the keychain is something that really irked me about FireFox.
Anything else I like? I’m quite partial to how it organises bookmarks. The general feel of the application is very slick. The animations are really, really cool. Just drag a tab off the tab bar to make it into it’s own window. See that little thumbnail of the page? Awesome.
What isn’t beautiful however, is the brushed metal look. Christ it’s ugly. Thank god for Uno which has banished the disgusting brushed metal look from my mac.
I’m sure I can think of more things I don’t like, but that will have to wait.
BTW, all the screen shots in this post were made with the fantastic Skitch. If you can get hold of an invite, get one. You’ll love it.
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