Safari 3 Beta Public Available

Safari 3 beta is immediately available for download from Apple website. As announced, the Apple-branded web browser is available for mac and PC (XP and Vista).

Among new features:
- Significant increase of speed and performance: Apple claims to have the fastest web browser, twice faster than IE 7 on PC.
- tab browsing revisited: one can drag and drop the tab bar, and even drag the tab away from the window to open it independently in a new window.
- keyword search function revisited too: Apple started from the interface designed in Firefox to developed it further.
- Private browsing: a new function for browsing the website as an anonymous user, preventing the automatic recording of history (including google search and visited webpage).
With Safari 3, Apple seems to have taken up the best features from all available browsers to merge them in a new version of its browser. There is nothing really ground-breaking, it simply looks more intuitive, appealing, and user-friendly. The future will tell us if Windows users will adopt it too.