Downloading the Safari Beta 3 from apple.com/safari is a breeze. The download is a Disk Image, last modified last night at 8:41pm. Cutting it close Apple!
The mounted image contains two .pkg files, Safari3Beta and Safari3BetaUninstall. The actual installation takes less than five minutes, and, interestingly, requires a restart.
The browser seems to be snappy and responsive, and there appear to be few changes to the UI upfront.
Under the hood, safari how has an inline find feature, similar to that of Firefox. It is slick! The “find” window drops down smoothly from the toolbar on the right, below the Google search box.
Nice, but here is the cool part: As Safari finds matches with your word, it dims the rest of the page and pops up an animated orange box highlighting the word or phrase. Here is a still image, but the full effect has to be seen in video:
Subsequent matches are highlighted conveniently right on the page in white. When you are finished, just click the “done” button and the page fades back up, with the find bar rolling back into the toolbar.
Also of note, the browser seems to be rendering buttons on the page a little differently, in a way that suggests the new iTunes and Finder look. Unfortunatly, as the beta installs over your old Safari, I have no way to look at them side by side at this time, but I believe it’s safe to assume that the final release will also ditch the brushed metal look.
More new stuff:
New 404 page: Now with integrated Google Search
Resizable text fields: Just grab the corner to make it bigger or smaller
Web Inspector: Something for the developers
Thats all for now, be sure to check back later for more Safari 3 updates!
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I’ve been using the 9a410 built Safari version 3.0(5522.5) as oposed to the new download available from the apple page 3.0 (522.11). And the only difference I could find was the fact that in the 9a410 included version the tabs display HTML preview in the alt text when hovering the mouse over a tab, instead of 522.11 where you just get the full title of the tabs page.
Hi here… thanks for the first look. Where is the “Web Inspector” found? I don’t see it anywhere!
Hey Shawn, you have to enable the debug mode first in order the see the “Web Inspector.”
Follow these instructions to do so: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629
Let us know if you need more help.
The installer (Safari3Beta) does not offer the startup voluem of my MacBook Pro Core2 Duo as available for install (red esclamation mark). Am I missing something?
The download is the latest, Safari302Beta.dmg
I’m not sure (I had no issues with my install) but I would suggest that you make sure you have enough disk space on the drive, then run Disk Utility and verify the disk permissions.
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