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Speed racer Safari zips right by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, as it launches, loads pages, and executes JavaScript much more quickly. Now with Safari Beta 2 you can enjoy the speediest Java performance available in any Mac browser, 55% faster than Internet Explorer. Of course, Internet Explorer isn’t the only other browser around, and Safari whizzes past the rest of the competition, too.* |
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Built-in Google search Just about everyone puts a link to the Google search engine in his or her toolbar. Safari takes this a step further with a Google search field right next to the Web address. Safari remembers your most recent searches in a convenient popup menu and tracks your Google SnapBack point separately. After you’ve explored a search result, the Google SnapBack button returns you to your most recent results page. |
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SnapBack to it Safari delivers the attention to detail you expect from Apple. Take the space-saving progress bar integrated directly in the address field, for instance. Or the innovative SnapBack technology. SnapBack works like a breadcrumb trail to lead you back to where you started. The very nature of the Web leads you from one page to the next and before you know it, you’ve wandered far afield. The SnapBack button returns you to the point where you last typed a URL or selected a bookmark. |
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Browsing with tabs Say you’re reading a web page filled with intriguing links, but you want to continue reading that page. You could always choose to open links in a new window, but you might end up with dozens of windows that way. Now Safari Beta 2 lets you see and switch between multiple web pages in a single window, using tabs. You can even open a folder of bookmarks with a single click. Before you know it, Safari has loaded all your favorite sites. Tabs elegantly resize themselves based on number open, and there’s a convenient close button on each tab. |
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Bookmarks — new millennium edition Apple engineers took the opportunity to completely rethink the whole notion of bookmarks for Safari. How to save them. How to organize them. How to make them easier to use. 
When you add a bookmark in Safari, a naming sheet gives you the opportunity to edit the bookmark name and file it away immediately in just the right library folder. No more bookmarks menu a mile wide — and deep. You can also drag a Web address directly into the bookmarks bar, giving you one-click access to that site. As you move an address to the bar, the other addresses rearrange themselves with a smooth shuffle. The bookmarks bar also features a sophisticated brushed-metal background, etched-metal fonts and elegant rollover effects. |
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Many people don’t even bother organizing their bookmarks because of other browsers’ confusing, complicated interfaces. In Safari’s Bookmarks Library, you’ll find the familiar, single-window interface like iTunes, which lets you edit bookmark names and addresses in place as though you were renaming an icon on your desktop. You can create any number of folders in your library, and keep them in the bookmarks bar or menu, like the preinstalled news folder. Safari offers a host of bookmarks to get you started — and some should be very recognizable, as Safari automatically imports your Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla favorites.You’ll also value Safari’s dynamic bookmarks. The History folder keeps track of sites you’ve visited recently, so you can go back a day or even a week later, or drag them into a permanent bookmark folder. Safari uses Rendezvous to find any Web addresses on your local network — for printer, router or webcam setup and administration, for instance. Plus, you’ll find all the websites in your Address Book conveniently in one place. |
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Now, with iSync 1.1, you can also use your .Mac account to keep your Safari bookmarks synchronized across multiple Macs, in addition to your Address Book and iCal info. Perfect for when you've done a lot of weekend research but need to make actual phone calls during business hours.
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Functional forms What a hassle to always have to type in your personal information when visiting sites with forms and passwords. Safari Beta 2 introduces another oft-requested feature — automatic form completion. Forms AutoFill completes Web forms based on information from your Address Book or previous forms. Let Safari fill in your name, street address, city, zip code, email and other information the next time you want to submit information online. Safari also gives you a separate option to automatically enter your accounts and passwords, stored securely in the Mac OS X Keychain. |
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Seamless downloads Among other niceties, Safari also cleans up after itself when downloading files. All you’ll see is the fully decompressed file — not a collection of .bin or .gz files floating around your desktop. You can even install an application without switching to the Finder. Safari automatically copies applications from disk images, then puts that image away. |
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Precision layoutRest assured, Safari renders Web pages properly according to the latest Internet standards. So pages that use advanced HTML, XML, XHTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript and Java specifications just look right. And of course you can view the content in QuickTime, Flash and Shockwave plug-ins. Going beyond standard accuracy, pages in Safari look beautiful, thanks to fully anti-aliased text. Safari takes advantage of Jaguar’s rich support for Unicode, which lets you view sites in different writing systems, such as English and other Roman languages, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew or Arabic — even on the same page. |
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Java maximized On Mac OS X, Java applets work best in Safari, which takes advantage of the latest version of the standard Java Internet Plug-In. Applets load much faster than previously and the plug-in supports new advanced caching features for Java classes and JAR files. Certificates used in signed applets are now stored directly into the Mac OS X Keychain, providing centralized access. What’s more, you’ll find that Safari and the Java 1.4.1 Plug-In allow you to work with more Java-based Web sites than ever before on the Mac. |
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Privacy reset When you use a public machine, you may be concerned about entering passwords to your bank account or subscriptions services; or maybe you don’t want people to know you have a secret fascination with advice columns, which they could find out by visiting your history. Privacy Reset erases that history, empties the cache, clears Downloads and Google search entries and also removes cookies, saved names, passwords or other AutoFill text. |
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Down with pop-ups Safari only goes where you tell it. Some Web pages hijack other browsers with endless pop-up advertisement windows. Not Safari. Feel free to let Safari stop those pages in their tracks. So you only see what you’ve chosen to. |
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| * Test system: iMac with 800MHz PowerPC G4, GeForce4 MX GPU, 256MB RAM. Performance tests completed by Apple April, 2003, using Safari beta 2. Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s i-Bench™ Version 4.0. |
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