Apple has released the beta 4 public version of the Safari web browser for Windows (XP or Vista) and Mac OS X. It includes a total of 150 features, but from the new ones, an interesting addition as compared with the previous Safari version is represented by the Nitro JavaScript engine, which will provide a faster access to pages during web browsing: the JavaScript execution is performed up to six times faster than in case of Internet Explorer 8, respectively up to four times faster that Firefox 3.1, according to iBench and SunSpider performance tests results. The Acid 3 Test shows a score of 100/100.

Even more, the latest edition of the JavaScript standard (ECMA 262 version 3) is completely supported. In the same time, the web pages rendering time is lower than the one corresponding to Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers.

There are many notable new features implemented to improve the accessibility, browsing and navigation, bookmarks management search, graphics and fonts support and rendering and user interface. For example, now users will be able to browse thumbnails of favorite sites, perform a full search of the History records, enjoy the Windows native look and feel in case of a Windows based PC and more.

Safari 4 beta provides to the developers a full set of tools necessary to debug, tweak, inspect pages or analyze offline databases content. The support for advanced web technologies will permit also developers to create HTML 5 applications with SQL like databases as backend, which are accessible offline. The entire set of Safari 4 beta web browser features is published on the official website.

Free Download Safari 4.0 Beta For Windows XP And Vista

Free Download Safari 4. 0 Beta For Mac

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