Safari 4 (beta) Thoughts

[saviourseph]

Still not sure about the Chrome-style titlebar tabs (and very unsure about the new tab button being where the tic-tac belongs - top-right click should hide/show the toolbar :/ ) and definitely not a fan of them doing away with the stop/reload button and progress bar in favour of a non-obvious spinny thing/curly arrow in the URL bar, but it does feel a hell of a lot faster now, and the speed dial they've added is very nice - like Opera, only more Maccish. I'm really liking how they've used Core Animation; drag a tab away from the window and it morphs into a thumbnail that'll grow into a window when released; click on a speed-dial preview and it scales & fades into the full thing - it's all very polished. Love the improvements in the search box too - no need for Inquisitor anymore (the less extensions needed the better).

In short: I think I'll end up sticking with this release, at least for now; while it'll probably take a while for the new tab bar location to sink in, but the not-insignificant speed increase and improvements elsewhere make up for it.