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Safari 4 Is Out And It Looks All Chromey

Today Apple announced that the beta version of Safari 4 is available. I installed it on my work laptop — hey, for any app the installation is half the battle! — and have been playing around with it for about a half hour. Aside from the placement of a couple of buttons, it strongly resembles its cousin, Google Chrome.

I like the cover flow feature that Apple’s pushing out on every product, from iPods and iPhones to Time Machine. It’s the only visualization method for presenting results that works for me. BTW I’ve blogged previously about SearchMe, a search engine that uses a version of cover flow to display the hits.

In the past, Safari was my printing ace-in-the-hole. Some blog posts don’t print completely in IE and Firefox. (Here’s an example from today. Firefox simply refuses to print the last 3 paragraphs, not matter how I twiddle with the print/page settings.) Whenever that happened, I’d switch to Safari to Gutenberg the article. Unfortunately, Safari 4 doesn’t work for me anymore — it skipped the last 6 paragraphs of the article. I had to turn to Cuz Chrome to print the complete article.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).