The new Safari beta is, indeed, quite speedy:
Using the new Nitro Engine, for example, Safari executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and more than 3 times faster than Firefox 3 based on performance in leading industry benchmark tests: iBench and SunSpider.
That said, my Top Sites are far less interesting than Apple's examples (this very blog, Google, and our internal FogBugz are in my top sites, for instance), and I'm not sure that I share Apple's fascination with Cover Flow-style interfaces, but I can ignore that--I've been a devoted blank-page-in-new-window browser user for years, now. And the new tabs, well--I'm still adjusting, to say the least. I keep feeling as though I've lost all of my open tabs, because they're not where I expect them to be.
But: new stuff!
Wow, the tabs are totally in the wrong place. Jeez.
Posted by: Abe Hassan | February 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM
If you don't like the tab setup,
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO
Posted by: miyagawa | February 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Yep, thanks! I'm trying to live with the tabs in their new position for now, because I have a feeling that I may just get used to it. But it feels really wrong and weird, so far.
Posted by: btrott | February 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Tabs I can get used to. It's the iphone-style refresh button that's really getting to me.
Posted by: Nick | February 25, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Oh, weird! I hadn't even noticed that. I guess I'm just so used to using the keyboard shortcut that it didn't register.
Posted by: btrott | February 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM