Overview
Dock + Finder
Exposé
Quick Look
Spotlight
Safari
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iChat
iTunes
QuickTime X
Photo Booth
Time Machine
Core Foundation
Scripting
Graphics and Media
Experience the web with the fast, easy-to-use web browser. With its simple, elegant interface and support for the latest Internet standards, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web.
Surf fast.
Safari 4 outraces all other browsers. On even the most demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari delivers blazingly fast performance thanks to 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 3.5. In addition, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance — the best on any platform — loading pages 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and almost 3 times faster than Firefox 3.5. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.
Blazing performance
How does Safari performance compare to other browsers on the Mac and Windows?
Distraction-free browsing.
Safari sports a clean, elegant look that keeps your focus where it belongs: on the content of the web page. The features you use most are just a click away and an integrated Google search bar makes it easy to find what you’re looking for.
Search, find and organise.
The new Top Sites feature lets you enjoy a stunning, at-a-glance preview of your favourite websites without lifting a finger. Safari 4 tracks the sites you browse and ranks your favourites, presenting up to 24 thumbnails on a single page. Safari 4 also introduces a dramatic new way to revisit sites. Just type a word or phrase in the History Search field in Top Sites and Safari quickly presents you with full-page previews of the websites that look exactly as they did when you last visited them. You flip through them just like in Cover Flow in iTunes or the Finder, then click to access the page you want.
Clip it.
Turn any web page into a Dashboard widget. Click the Web Clip button next to the address field in Safari and select exactly what you want your new widget to display. Then click Add and Safari sends your Web Clip widget to Dashboard, where you can view it alongside your other widgets. You can even customise its border using built-in styles on the back of the widget. Your Web Clip widget is live and will update as frequently as the page from which it came.
Surf securely.
With support for the latest standards for secure access and information sharing on the web, Safari protects you whether you’re browsing the Internet at home or on a public computer. Safari offers built-in antiphishing technology that detects fraudulent websites and warns you before displaying the information. It also supports EV (Extended Validation) Certificates, so you can feel confident shopping, updating account information or paying bills online.
Kid-proof the Internet.
Start your kids’ web exploration off on the right foot with Safari parental controls. Using the same technology that keeps your inbox free of junk mail, a content filter in Mac OS X takes a quick peek at websites before they load and tries to determine if they’re suitable for kids. If they’re not, Mac OS X blocks them from view. You can override this filter by creating lists of specific websites you want — or don’t want — your children to see.
