June 12th, 2009

Browser Wars Continue: Apple Claims 11 Million Downloads For New Safari In 3 Days

Opera may be reinventing the web next week, but in the meantime the browser wars continue to rage on. Apple has come out with a news release claiming its latest browser, Safari 4, has topped 11 million downloads in the first three days of its release. Surprisingly, it also claims over half of those (or 6 million to be specific) were the Windows version of the program.

Apple continues to tout the… → Read More

June 8th, 2009

Safari 4 final available today: Now ‘crash resistant’ à la Google Chrome

And what else did Apple unveil today, hmm? How about the final version of Safari 4! Yup, it should be available to download today at some point. → Read More

March 10th, 2009

Are you still using Safari 4?

I just noticed that even after a week I haven’t given up on Safari or even considered going back to Firefox. How has your experience compared?

One thing I really enjoy right now is the ability to pull tabs out of the line-up but I could only really like it after I moved the damn tabs under browser bar and off the top. Safari is definitely faster on my Air which has horrible Internet connectivity… → Read More

March 6th, 2009

Gruber on Safari 4: Whoa

The Internet’s John Gruber posted a long, long piece about Safari 4, noting that the missing progress bar is a huge mistake and that top-tabs are not new and are quite unique and problematic. He notes, as I did, that grabbing the tabs now messes up the concept of “title bars” and “draggable space.” → Read More

February 24th, 2009

Disable Tabs on Top in the Safari 4 Beta

Here’s how to disable the Tabs on Top feature in Safari 4. Open Terminal in OS X and type:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO → Read More