I just installed the beta version of Safari 4 and so far it’s pretty impressive. Things seem a lot smoother now!
I started it up for the first time and opened a new tab and the following is what I saw…
- nu.nl – the Dutch news site… I think this is the number one site for a lot of Dutch people
- hanglos.nl – site for the Dutch kiteboarding community
- blog.arendsen.net – my own blog
- actuelewaterdata.nl for IJmuiden – the actual wind situation at IJmuiden beach, close to my home spot for kiteboarding
- higherlevel.nl – a Dutch community site for entrepreneurs
- InfoQ.com – a (mostly Java-related) tech site
- Twitter.com – well, you know what Twitter is, don’t you
- iGoogle
- maps.google.com
- techcrunch.com – a web 2.0 blog
- kitehigh.nl – another Dutch kite community
- Google Logon page
I’m not sure if this is ordered at all. One thing to note is that I’ve had hanglos.nl, blog.arendsen.net, actuelewaterdata.nl and higherlevel.nl all as my start pages in the last few weeks, but then again, even if I didn’t, they’d probably still appear on ‘the wall’. I was surprised to find my own blog up there, but then I realized I don’t get emails from my blog when a new comment arrives (for some reason these cat categorized as spam and get deleted immediately), so I check for comments manually a few times a day.
One thing is for sure: I’m going to like this Wall thing a lot! It’ll save me from having to type in stuff in the address bar a lot!
I did the same yesterday and concluded as well that safari 4 is like a rocket.
I compared it with sites like zenggi.com (which contains a lot of javascript) and designer-vintages.com and so far safari4 is at least 2 to 3 times faster than FF. And for the records, i’m running windows
Yup, I’m really pleased with it. The only thing that bothers me so far is the progress bar is not what it used to be like. In Safari 3, you really had a good indication of the loading process, with the bar filling up slowly… This is gone now. Maybe it’s configurable, but I don’t have time right now to look into that…
Apple Safari takes more resources compared to Opera and Firefox. sometimes it also freezes so i would still stick to Opera.