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Leopard and Safari

There are several things that can make you consider using Safari as your Leopard web browser. Let's take a look at them.

Ultimate Safari Webclip

Webclip is newly released tool for Safari. With Webclip, you can pick portion of your favorite web pages as an new Dashboard widget. Webclip is located next to the reload button.

I have taken the snapshot for illustrating how the webclip can benefit us. In picture, you will see that I've three widgets for my dashboard, the clock, web browser game, and Hot in Apple upcoming stories on Digg. Therefore, I can monitor the upcoming stories as well as the development of my village in browser game. This is just an example, you don't have to take it seriously.

Better Speed Performance

Apple claims that Safari browsing speed is 1.43, which is 3 times faster than Firefox with 4.52 and 6 times faster than Opera 9.

Handy RSS Feeds Burner

Gaining RSS Feeds of certain website using Safari is easier than ever now. Safari provides us with RSS button, which is located at the rightmost of the address bar, and it's easy to use.

Quick Navigating Bookmarks

Bookmarks Bar, which is other handy stuff in Safari, can help you create new bookmark in instant and also can help you refer back to your bookmarks really quick. You will have your top 9 bookmarks assigned to shortcut from Command-1 to Command-9 which will be a great help for you.

In order to add new bookmark to your Bookmarks Bar, you just need to drag the web fav-icon and drop it to the Bookmarks Bar. See also Safari n' Javascript : Printing from Browser for another more advance example of using Safari Bookmarks Bar.

A Few Display Issues

Unfortunately, Safari still got a few display issues.

Standard Font

Safari's Standard Font, that can be set inside Safari ▸ Preferences ▸ Appearance, sometimes can ruin the whole display because Safari renders the webpage using this user-defined font, which overwrites the original CSS.

Option Bar

Safari Option Bar cannot work properly in some webpages, such as the sorting feature of Digg.

Compatibility

Perhaps this is Flash compatibility, somehow I cannot manage to use the Share feature of Digg using Safari.

I hope that there will be immediate solution for these issues.

Categories: Internet, Leopard
Tags: Leopard, Safari

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7 Comments

kL 

Regarding Safari's speed, benchmarks were cheated a bit, because Safari tells script that it had finished loading the page _before_ rendering, while other browsers do it _after_ rendering.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html

So they were not quite, ekhm, correct at the time of writing. With new Opera version coming out they'll be way off:
http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/

J Deville 

No problem with Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard 10.5.1 for me. Sorry. Regarding the problems.

Rick 

What's the game you're playing in that web clip?

ff 

i don't need benchmark tests to know that apple is bulls***ting about safari's speed.
safari 3 is faster than FF in 10.4 (on a G4 PB), but would never touch opera...

Wendy 



Rick,


The game that I played inside that webclip is called travian. It's a strategy game, so I don't need to waste much time on it but can still get some entertainment.


ff,


We just need to stick to our favorite browsers. I usually use Firefox for its developer tools plugins and Safari for browsing the web.

get wealthy online 

After updating to 10.5.1 I've got Safari issues like ages not loading properly or doing searches on different sites. I force quit and it tells me Safari is not responding - obviously as it's hung in the process of seaching. Happened about 10 times now. Anyone got issues with leopard 10.5.1 and Safari?
I'm running a Mac Mini G4 1.4Ghz 80GB HD and 1GB Ram.

Tahir 

We have two MacMinis home and they got  very slow after having installed Leopard. With Tiger, there were no problems at all. Performace of the Windows laptop did not chance (validating that it reallly is hte Leopard). I had installed the beat verison of Safari with Tiger before, again there were no issues.