Safari 3.1 released

[goobimama]

You people need to experience opera. Fastest browser on earth, bar none!

Safari on windows is too damn buggy to use, guess i'll check out the latest builds.

I haven't noticed any bugs since the 3.0.4 update. It's got most of the stuff I need. Power users will surely appreciate Firefox for it's extensions though.

Nope, thats false info you've got there sir!

heres a comparison: *www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

Its somewhat old, but the argument holds weight.

That list is outdated.

 

[cooldudie3]

I don't really think Safari is buggy and hard to use..
Though Safari can't open some of my working web sites, Opera isn't any better.

I wonder what apple did to this version other than removing beta.. it would have been better if they showed it.

 

[MiNiMaL_sAnItY]

Ok, heres a live lest:
*celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed.php

Post back results with your browsers, preferrably with screenshots of the result. I'll post back when I finish d'ling the new safari.

 

[cooldudie3]

this is pretty old too...
it talks about FF1.5 and IE6
Now Safari can load more faster than opera

MY REPORT

Try/Catch with errors 90
Layer movement 311
Random number engine 260
Math engine 270
DOM speed 161
Array functions 160
String functions 20
Ajax declaration 170
Total Duration 1442


This is Firefox 2.0.0.12

 

[ThinkFree]

Safari

Safari can’t open the page.
Safari could not open the page “*celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed.php” because the server is not responding.

Flock 1.1beta

* The connection has timed out server at celtickane.com is taking too long to respond. should you do now?
site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few.
you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure Flock is permitted to access the Web.

Firefox

The connection has timed out server at celtickane.com is taking too long to respond. site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

 

[cooldudie3]

WHAT?????
How did you get that????
I got myself opening this web page about testing speed!!!

 

[MiNiMaL_sAnItY]

Im surprised!

*i97.photobucket.com/albums/l226/Complete-Idiot/op2.jpg
*i97.photobucket.com/albums/l226/Complete-Idiot/saf.jpg
*i97.photobucket.com/albums/l226/Complete-Idiot/op1.jpg

I'll be using safari from now on!

 

[ThinkFree]

Not only these statistics but the real experience of using Safari (on windows as well) backs it as the fastest browser

WTH, ............ What they have fixed?? .......................

Earlier when I opened digit forum with Safari, it didn't show any snippet of the content of thread when I hovered mouse over it, but now it does. Same is with some other sites

 

[goobimama]

I can certainly say that Safari is not for the so called "Power users" who have extensions for almost everything and anything. Safari is an out of the box browser with little customising. Which is what many a computer user requires...

 

[sakumar79]

Is there any free extension/tool for configuring ad blocking in Safari? Something as easy to use as Opera's Block Content feature?

Arun

 

[debsuvra]

Is there any free extension/tool for configuring ad blocking in Safari? Something as easy to use as Opera's Block Content feature?

Arun

Try pithhelmet @ *www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

 

[axxo]

download today...much impressed with its rendering speed greated than ff and ie..as well as the inbuilt font smoothing adds value to browsing content

many essential feature still missing..
no undo close tab
most of the links when i click gets opened in new window instead of new tab
no adblock..not even blocking the basic google ads in digit forum
download manager support?

 

[sakumar79]

From my post in an earlier thread *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=749460 which got no replies:

I read on another website *www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html that Safari used to mess up its Javascript-based benchmarks by firing onload event returns before the page is fully loaded... This made it look like it is much faster than it actually was (which by itself is quite fast). Has this been fixed in the recent versions?

Arun

Hope I get reply in this thread at least...

Arun

 

[desiibond]

safari is handing whenever I try to import bookmarks from HTML file.

 

[aryayush]

no undo close tab

FWIW, if you know which site the tab was from, then it's very easy to get it back. For instance, if you know that the site was the Digit forum, you just enter 'think' in the address bar and the pages you most recently opened (and thus are most likely to open again) will be near the top. I really like this feature of Safari. Other browsers seem to arrange this list alphabetically or something.

most of the links when i click gets opened in new window instead of new tab

Press and hold Ctrl and then click on the links. They will open in background tabs instead.

From my post in an earlier thread *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=749460 which got no replies:

I read on another website *www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html that Safari used to mess up its Javascript-based benchmarks by firing onload event returns before the page is fully loaded... This made it look like it is much faster than it actually was (which by itself is quite fast). Has this been fixed in the recent versions?

Arun

Hope I get reply in this thread at least...

I haven't heard anything about this but I know that, at least on a Mac, Safari is noticeably faster than Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera. I have tried several websites on all these browsers and Safari always comes out faster than all of them The only exception, ironically enough, seems to be Safari's default homepage, which generally loads faster in Firefox than it does in Safari.

 

[goobimama]

True. For some reason, Safari can't handle the Apple web page properly. Ever since they got that new look, it's been like that. The Windows version takes a few seconds to restore any form of control once it gets to apple.com.

As for tabs opening in new windows, you can always merge all windows "Window > Merge all Windows".

 

[Ankur Gupta]

FWIW, if you know which site the tab was from, then it's very easy to get it back. For instance, if you know that the site was the Digit forum, you just enter 'think' in the address bar and the pages you most recently opened (and thus are most likely to open again) will be near the top. I really like this feature of Safari. Other browsers seem to arrange this list alphabetically or something.

Press and hold Ctrl and then click on the links. They will open in background tabs instead.

Both features are available in Firefox 3. It made its way somewhere around Beta2.
That sorting according to frequency of visits is cool, makes me wonder how have we been living without it

 

[gxsaurav]

FWIW, if you know which site the tab was from, then it's very easy to get it back. For instance, if you know that the site was the Digit forum, you just enter 'think' in the address bar and the pages you most recently opened (and thus are most likely to open again) will be near the top. I really like this feature of Safari. Other browsers seem to arrange this list alphabetically or something.

With IE 8 + IE 7 Pro, right click on the Icon in status bar, select "Tab history", then select the tab i closed.

Press and hold Ctrl and then click on the links. They will open in background tabs instead.

Right click -> Open in new tab or middle click.

 

[axxo]

FWIW, if you know which site the tab was from, then it's very easy to get it back. For instance, if you know that the site was the Digit forum, you just enter 'think' in the address bar and the pages you most recently opened (and thus are most likely to open again) will be near the top. I really like this feature of Safari. Other browsers seem to arrange this list alphabetically or something.

quite complex...but what I desire is basic undo function..& what if i don't remember the link that i closed?

Press and hold Ctrl and then click on the links. They will open in background tabs instead.

handful tip..again most of the time I don't use keyboard..I prefer mouse click(s) than using both the hands - one on keyboard & the other on mouse

 

[mad1231moody]

Is there anyway I can get a new tab button on the toolbar, just like Firefox.
Even the customization options were less for the toolbar in Safari, but overall it loads pages faster