| Apple releases Safari 3.1 |
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| Written by Philip Roy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 19 March 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apple today introduced Safari 3.1, the world's fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences*. Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/nz/safari for both Mac OS X and Windows. "Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience." The incredible performance of Safari, combined with its elegant user interface, lets users spend more time surfing the web and less time waiting for pages to load. Safari features an intuitive browsing experience with drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organise tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites.
Pricing & Availability Safari 3.1 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Tiger version 10.4.11, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. *Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest's iBench Version 5.0 using default settings running on an iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM.
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lowededwookie
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The World's Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows
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Yes, they fixed the proxy issue. I can now use Safari at work under Windows. Bye bye Firefox |
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Ron Mayes
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And the House of Travel site seems now fully accessible with Safari 3.1. Hooray.  |
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MattD
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Webkit http://webkit.org/ nightly builds have achieved 100/100 in Acid3 test http://acid3.acidtests.org/ Safari is still achieving 75/100. http://webkit.org/blog/173/web...lic-build/ |
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Mtbkr
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I downloaded safari 3.1 3 times and installed it in Windows XP, it crashes on start-up every time. Not impressive.  |
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Philip Roy
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I'm typing this on Windoze XP with Safari...just installed it on a PC in my office...works fine. Works fine on my Mac laptop booted into XP too |
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Mtbkr
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it seems a few 1000 other punters have had the same problem, looking on apples support site. I expect these things to work. This is on my work pc. i've just bought an imac for home, switching over from PC, so far i am not convinced it was a good move. |
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