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Yesterday, Apple launched their later version of their famous web browser : Safari 4.

Still in beta version, available only in English for Mac OS X and Windows, and totally free, this new version, building on quickness and a new graphic interface, brings some bugs corrections and many new features.




On the menu of novelties :

- integration of the Nitro engine in Safari which according to Apple runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3 (and executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and more than three times faster than Firefox 3)

- option Top Sites added, a visual homepage that displays thumbnails of your most visited websites like Google Chrome



- option Full History Search added, the Firefox Awesomebar comes to Safari, it is a search bar. The search bar searching through your titles, URLs, and page text



- Cover Flow added, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes



- Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and browsing history



- Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones



- etc. (for more, click here)

If you want more information about Safari 4 (beta), you can visit this page, and if you want to try it, you can click on this link.

So, what do you think of Safari 4 ?