Apple's Safari 4 Web browser

[Spykar]

Safari is the default browser on OS X. The new version Apple Safari 4.0 is presented by Apple as the web browser faster and faster than Firefox, Opera or Camino. Safari is light and reliable and fully developed.Safari is also described as a navigation tool for aesthetic and intelligent.

The new engine Nitro internal Safari allows the browser to display even more enhanced performance. This is true not only for displaying web pages but also for the execution of JavaScript code (8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and 3 times faster than Firefox, according to the main performance tests).

Key features of Safari:

• The ability to archive a web page. Simply go to the menu File / Save As and save your web page to Web Archive. The entire page content (text, images, photos etc. ..) will be listed here in this archive!
  
• Safari can read RSS.Many Web sites and personal blogs offer headlines and article summaries in the form of news feed, using a technology called RSS. Safari allows you to use these feeds and view them grouped, so you can quickly find all the articles that interest you from across the Web. Safari is compatible with all Internet RSS .
  
• If you go to a website with an RSS feed, Safari will notify you by displaying an icon RSS in the address bar. Click it and Safari automatically displays the feed in the browser window.When Safari encounters a RSS feed, it displays the title and a summary of the article directly in the browser window. To read an article in, simply click on the title or the summary to go to the web page source.
  
• Safari has a slider that allows you to customize the length of summaries displayed. It also provides commands for sorting and filtering items by date, title and source.
  
• You can also save the RSS feed bookmark in order to be able to come back. Safari notifies you when your feeds added bookmarks are updated with new items, so you can receive updates without having constantly updating the sites. If you like the new travel simultaneously to all your favorite sites, Safari allows you to easily combine the flows. You can create a folder collecting RSS feeds most viewed from a specific window, then go through all the sites in a page layout very clear.
  
  Note
  

  Under Leopard Mail manages RSS feeds and sharing the calculation of unread feeds with Safari.Your reading list is always synchronized.

• Ability to search through its collection of bookmarks (if you practice a lot of bookmarks!)
  
• Ability to send email directly from a URL or web page! (Menu File / Send )
  
• Viewing PDF pages directly in Safari, without resorting to a plug-in PDF.
  Indeed, the new PDF controls in Safari allows you to zoom in a PDF file, save it or open a thumbnail directly from the browser
  
• Possibility to surf with security ( Safari menu / Browsing Privacy). You can set no prof to trace your work on the Mac with (history, cookies, caches). Useful if you surf from a Mac that is not yours!
  
• Ability to activate the function of Parental Control, you define the sites where your children can go with the Parental Control .
  
• Ability to save a picture from the web directly in iPhoto.
  
• A search function is very interesting. When you are on a web page,use Apple + F ( cmd + F if you have an aluminum keyboard) or go to the Edit / Search / Search.A bar will display just below the bookmarks bar.Type a word into the search box, safari then display the number of times the word has been found on this web page,highlight while darkening the rest of the page. Very useful to identify an item in a web page.

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The new features of version 4 of Safari:

• Top Sites: gives an overview of all your favorite websites. Safari 4 keeps track of sites you visit and in order of preference, displaying up to 24 on a single page .
  
• Cover Flow: You already know Cover Flow in iTunes. Now this feature is also available in Safari
  
• Search the whole history
  
• Zoom full page: Safari adjusts the size of the images and graphics that you zoom in and preserves the sharpness of the text, while preserving the layout.
  
• Address field intelligent: Begin to type and the address field you will get immediately intelligent suggestions. You will see the Top Hit and best matches from your browsing history and bookmarks collections displayed clearly in their own section.
  
• Field intelligent search: Thanks to Google Suggest and the history of your recent research, Safari has very useful suggestions, which can conduct research more easily.You can even search for text on the page you're viewing.

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Start the application Safari


By default the toolbar includes some elements but you can choose which buttons you want to add or remove any of the bar by going to the Presentation / Customize Toolbar and selecting the window displayed the items you want to see in the toolbar or in the application interface.

Go forth in the Safari menu / Preferences to set your preferences. A window opens with default with 8 tabs. The Glim you can add to this. Glims is a nice little plugin for Safari 4.


General tab:

• Allows you to select your default web browser (yes! Even if you do not use Safari, but another browser, it is here, in the preferences of Safari that you must select the default )
• Choice of opening new windows new tabs and homepage.
• Choice of place of registration of downloaded files. By default it is in the folder Downloads, but you can choose another location (I chose the Desktop, more convenient for my taste).
• Choice on erasing the list of downloads.
• Choice of opening link: new window or new tab.

Tab Appearance

• Choice of fonts and encoding. Leave it as such.

Tab Bookmarks

• Possibility to include (in the bookmarks bar and / or bookmarks menu and bookmarks collections) web addresses in your Address Book, Top Sites or Hello.
• With Hello you can find any existing web address on your local network.for example, for the installation and administration of printers, routers and webcams.
• Thanks to MobileMe (tab Synchronization on dashboard MobileMe) you can also use your MobileMe to synchronize bookmark Safari on multiple Macs (as well as on your iPod Touch and iPhone) and your MobileMe!
  
• Tab Tab:
  This tab allows you to configure the navigation tabs (setting the keys Cmd, Shift, Option + click).The tabs will automatically resize depending on the number of pages open. You can close each tab quickly, simply by clicking .It is also possible to drag your tabs with the mouse to change their order.You can also drag a tab out of a window Safari: this will open the page in a new window.

RSS
This is the parameter related to RSS feeds:

• Choice of default RSS reader (you may prefer that your RSS feed is managed by Mail for example).
• Setting updates the RSS feeds.
• Highlight unread articles.
• Remove items.

Replace. Self. :
Tired of entering your details and password each time you visit a new site? Safari offers a very requested feature the automatic filling of forms. This feature complete web forms from the information in your Address Book or previous forms. Safari takes your name, address, city, postal code, email address and other information every time you want to complete a online form.

Security :

• Content management and cookies.I invite you to check the Block-up windows, and finished as the advertising pages that open by themselves! Also check the 3 boxes Enable in the web content.
  
• To activate the anti-phishing tool of Safari and thus be prevented from access to a fraudulent site check with the box Warn of access to a fraudulent site.
  
• On cookies please note that some sites do not work if cookies are not Always enabled.
  
• Size of the database, some web sites (still scarce, but it will grow) will provide tools to create and edit documents to internal sites. Your documents are created and stored as databases on your hard drive. You can increase or reduce the space available for this purpose. If a website requires more space a message will appear on the screen.
  
• Show databases: Click above to view all databases on your disk websites. You can delete these databases. However, your web site services will not recover your data if you delete them.
  
• Ask before sending a non-secure form from a secure web site: It may happen that a website does not provide reliable secure way to submit a form containing such as your password or the number of your card credit. Where appropriate Safari displays a message that allows you to cancel your action. If you do not want this message appears you can disable it.

Tab Advanced:
Management style sheets and proxies. Select the View expanded menu in menu bar in order to have this new menu. This menu is especially useful for webmasters and software developers.

Tab Glim:
As I mentioned above it is possible to add more functionality to the Safari by installing Glim. Glim is completely free and offers many additional functions setting.

Here are some features with Glim (configurable in the preferences of Safari):

• Enable search suggestions
• Added preview to the results of the sites searched by Google and / or Yahoo
• Full screen mode
• Management of the tabs and bookmarks more
• Choice of search engines

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The management of bookmarks
Apple engineers have the opportunity to reconsider in its entirety the concept of bookmarks to Safari. So when you want to add a page to your bookmarks (go for this in the menu Bookmarks) in Safari, a window allows you to change the name of the bookmark and immediately classify it in the correct folder in the library

Just click on the icon representing an open book in the bookmarks bar (far left) and you can access your collections of bookmarks. Here everything is done by drag and drop .The use is very simple and you have no trouble managing the way you want your bookmarks.

In library of bookmarks of Safari you will find the same single window interface as the iTunes and iPhoto, which allows you to change the bookmark names and addresses as you like.The great novelty of this version 4 of Safari is that you can also browse mode Cover Flow in your bookmarks.

Search Google
The toolbar of Safari includes an area to search the web using the search engine Google. Very convenient!


The SnapBack:
SnapBack is a kind of track navigation which takes you back to your starting point. The very nature of the Web will guide you from one page to another and before you see, you find yourself miles away from your initial search. The SnapBack takes you back to the URL before last or last selected bookmark ! very convenient!

Dashboard and Safari:

Safari to transform a web page widget, and to consult this web page directly to Dashboard.To activate this use widget with the webclip in Dasboard .Once in Safari if you want to Dashboard and Safari ,safari to transform a web page widget, and to consult this web page directly to Dashboard.

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Top Sites:

This is a new feature of Safari 4.Safari identifies your favorite sites and displays thumbnails of them in the Top Sites. Safari chooses the Top Sites according the frequency and the last visit each site. While you surf the web and discover new web sites, the Top Sites change to suit your interests.To view the Top Sites, click on the Top Sites in the bookmarks bar

To visit a web page in Top Sites, click on its thumbnail. The content pages have a new star in the upper right corner.

To add a page to Top Sites:
In the Top Sites, click the Edit button. Then any of the following:
Open the Web page in another window Safari, turn the page address highlighted in the address field, then drag the address to the Top Sites.
You can also drag and drop the address of a web page directly on the Top Sites. Once you've finished adding pages, click Done.

To customize the Top Sites:
In the Top Sites, click the Edit button. Then any of the following:

• To specify that a page must be kept in Top Sites and not replaced by other pages visited most often, click the icon shaped pin in the upper left corner of the page.
• To reverse this action, click on the icon in the shape of a pin.
• To specify that a page should never be included in the Top Sites, click the X in the upper left corner of the page.
• Display 24, 12 or 6 previews of web pages, click on Small, Medium or Large.
• To reorder pages, drag them.
• Once you have finished making changes, click Done.

Search the entire history:
In the Top Sites, click the Search History. With any research on the history and Cover Flow, you see all the places you went. Safari to return to those sites by allowing you to browse previews in full page of sites you've previously visited by the past.
Safari automatically stores all the text and a thumbnail of each page in your history. So you get results even if you have little information on the site looking for.You can simply click on one of these pages archived to restore it into your browser.


You can install applications, plug-ins and bookmarklets for Safari (check compatibility with Safari 3 and Leopard)This new version of Safari is a great success! The speed of this new version and new features are enough to satisfy a large majority of users.

[waqyum]

In apperance nothing can beat Safari, but i just can't manage without Firefox plugins. I just keep other web browsers for fun, but for serious work nothing can beat Firefox.

[00Se7en4Ever]

I like the Top Sites feature of Safari but have two questions ...

1. If I mark an "X" for a site not to be included in the Top Sites is this permanent or can I reverse this somehow?

2. If I manually add a website to Top Sites is it on there permanently or if it is not used frequently it will drop off?

Thanks

Ed

[jamesrayenz]

If I could, there's one very good browser I would like a review from you on: Opera.
I've been using Opera for a while now and I love it. If you can or wish to, here is the link to it:
opera._com (without the _ )
I believe it's the fastest browser out there yet, even faster than Google Chrome (I'm using Chrome now I admit, but because I feel like it only lol)

[katanne]

safari is very good.. you can easily access all of your favorite webites..=)