Safari 3.1 Final

[EL1TE]

Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer. The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.

Download: Safari 3.1 Final | Windows XP/Vista ONLY (Freeware, 18.62MB)

Download: Safari - All Downloads (Thanks simmorya)

Download: Webkit - Nightly Builds (Open Source)

Link: Home Page | Acid3 Test

Edited March 18, 2008 by EL1TE

[Raa]

Nice post! Thanks! :)

I'll stick with Maxthon personally, but I know a few people that'll be happy about this!

[saxondale.]

I'm interested to know how the final release is for windows. Get on it people and let us know!

[Angel Blue01]

I hope final will be able to run under WINE

[Si Veteran]

Just downloaded it, and as a Firefox user since Phoenix 0.1, I must say I am very impressed!

[Beastage]

scores 74/100 on acid3 tho it looks worse than the 70/100 on latest FF3 minefield nightly, running sunspider benchmark right now

scores total: 3250.6ms compared to ~2500ms on latest FF3 minefield

Font rendering causes my eyes to bleed after 10 seconds of reading something and its in the menus as well, not ready for windows yet imo

Doesn't comply to vista's , stack windows or side by side command ... have to resize manually!

Edited March 18, 2008 by Beastage

[Si Veteran]

Apple does have a serious consistency issue however :/

[+John. Subscriber¹]

For me, it's a nice update. It's a lot faster and hasn't crashed...

but...

Typing this on Firefox :p Good try though. Not enough for me to switch.

[crazzyyfool]

Shouldn't here be a direct link to the Mac version too since Safari is multi-platform and this is posted in BPN?

[Lasker]

So they moved to the Gecko platform, does this mean that safari is firefox skinned and with the apple logo? :blink:

[Si Veteran]

So they moved to the Gecko platform, does this mean that safari is firefox skinned and with the apple logo? :blink:

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13

They didn't, I'll fix the title now.

[crazzyyfool]

So they moved to the Gecko platform, does this mean that safari is firefox skinned and with the apple logo? :blink:

Safari is still based on WebKit? :blink:

[LOC Veteran]

I'll just install this 3.1 final build, and then the newest Webkit nightly overtop, for the ultimate rendering browser, ever!

Seriously, this browser smokes everything else now. I just wish it handled favorites/bookmarks better and had a few more features from Firefox then it would be perfect.

[Beastage]

FF3vSaf.png

A comparison between the two, defiantly can see thats its much clearer on FF3

[Lasker]

nevermind, it looks like the title was wrong

[crazzyyfool]

FF3vSaf.png

A comparison between the two, defiantly can see thats its much clearer on FF3

Hmm. Guess its personal choice. I much prefer Safari's rendering.

[LOC Veteran]

Yeah, I got used to the fonts pretty quick, doesn't bother me at all anymore :)

[Beastage]

Yeah, I got used to the fonts pretty quick, doesn't bother me at all anymore :)

How on earth can you get used to something blurry? its not that they are diffrent , they are smeared some of them almost fade out

[LOC Veteran]

How on earth can you get used to something blurry? its not that they are diffrent , they are smeared some of them almost fade out

Well, I'm on a CRT so I don't know if that's why. But, I just got used to them. They aren't blurry to me at all, a little washed out a bit I suppose, but not blurry.

[crazzyyfool]

How on earth can you get used to something blurry? its not that they are diffrent , they are smeared some of them almost fade out

Personal choice. They just look slightly bolder to me, not blurry or anything. In fact, the FF rendering looks washed out and hurts my eyes.

[Elliott]

How on earth can you get used to something blurry? its not that they are diffrent , they are smeared some of them almost fade out

That's how OS X renders fonts (though it looks a little bit worse in that picture; could just be this crappy Dell laptop screen I'm viewing it on). Most people agree that the way OS X handles font rendering is much better than ClearType. Fonts also look truer to their actual fontface. That's especially true with serif fonts, which seem to look like crap with ClearType.

[sialivi]

With its simple, elegant interface,

Am I the only one who thinks there's nothing "elegant" about safaris interface? I personally think it looks terribly dated, worst looking application I have running here.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Different forms of rendering, one snaps to the pixel grid, one keeps the form of the characters.

It's a personal choice, people used to the pixel snapping form will find the form keeping kind odd, etc.

Edit: And if it's really important to you, Safari can use the pixel snapping form if you set the font smoothing type to 4 (the UI only presents 3 options, so you'll need to change a config file)

[SatansAce]

Nice suggestion to download latest webkit, check this out (Safari 3.1 + Webkit18-03-08) =

91/100 on acid 3

[crazzyyfool]

Am I the only one who thinks there's nothing "elegant" about safaris interface? I personally think it looks terribly dated, worst looking application I have running here.

The Mac version of Safari is much better.

Nice suggestion to download latest webkit, check this out (Safari 3.1 + Webkit18-03-08) =

91/100 on acid 3

Go Safari. :laugh: