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Experience the web, Apple Style, with Safari - the fastest, easiest to use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web - up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included in Mac OS X. It was first released as a public beta on January 7, 2003, and a final version was included as the default browser in Mac OS X v10.3. A beta version for Windows was released for the first time on June 11, 2007. Safari also runs on Wine, although the graphics do not display properly.
Safari has a bookmark management scheme that functions like the iTunes jukebox software, integrates Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology, and features a tabbed-browsing interface. A Google search box is a standard component of the Safari interface, as are software services that automatically fill out web forms, manage passwords via Keychain and spell check entries into web page text fields. The browser also includes an integrated pop-up ad blocker. An associated software from Apple is the Web Inspector - a DOM Inspector-like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page.
Since the release of Safari, its browser usage share has been climbing. For the month of May 2007, thecounter.com shows that Safari has a usage share of 2.86%; NetApplications.com reports that Safari has a usage share of 4.59% as of April 2007, an increase of 1.33 percentage points since May 2006.
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(Apple Safari version 4.0):
- Top Sites See your favorite websites at a glance. Open one with a single click.
- Cover Flow Flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums in iTunes.
- Full History Search Easily retrieve sites you’ve seen before. Spot the one you want in Cover Flow.
- Nitro Engine Wait less. Browse more. Surf the web with the world’s fastest browser.
- Windows Native Look and Feel Vista and XP users: feel right at home in Safari for Windows.
- Developer Tools Access the best suite of development tools ever included in a browser. |
