- Let's starts with the most surprising one: Safari 4 beta is incompatible with Xcode. Once installed, Xcode will not be able to launch and run properly: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9054761. So, if you are a developer, do not install Safari 4 for the moment or on a different partition if you really want to use it
- If you face an "ERROR_SEC" during the installation, then you are not up to date with the security update released by Apple, so install them, including the Security Update 2009-001.
- If you have installed InputManagers with Safari 3, then uninstall them before installing Safari 4 or they will make the new version prompt for crash.
- Last but not least, one of our readers, reports that PC version of Safari 4 looks different than the version previously released to developers, and has some intriguing specifications for GPU; is it already pre-GPGPU?
The first beta version of Safari 4, the one distributed on the developer's website looked like the version for Mac although the buttons of minimize, maximize and close the window were "silver", not colored "a la" Windows. Now the new beta version for public usage is not functioning well with Windows XP, I think that it is due to the fact that this beta 2 version depends on off-board video card and some higher instructions than SSE such as SSE4. The browser runs a bit faster, of course, but it doesn't show the options that are announced on the download page of Safari 4.
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After visiting the Apple's download page again, I noticed that there was a small link to warn the users that they need to have some graphic cards installed on their computers. My PC still has onboard graphic chip, and I am not going to make such investment for an old computer which I aim to replace with a new Mac mini.
It is very disappointing that Apple sacrificed the original look of the program that before never depended on off-board graphic chips.
