Safari 4 beta is available for download since last February but I personally have never attracted and I have not used often, opting for the current version of Safari. To make me lean even more to my choice, have come to the “discovery” of C. Harwick functioning of Safari 4 beta.
The feature “Top Site”, one of the main innovations with greater force of attraction, shows thumbnail of the sites most visited by us and gives updates. Besides this, Safari 4 offers a navigation of its history in CoverFlow style. But the convenience and attractiveness of these features come at a price: space on the hard disk.
Safari 4, indeed, create 2 files for viewing in QuickLook of each web page visited (a thumbnail image and high resolution) and keep the files in memory for its operation. At the same time, to succeed in the notification of updates, it creates an XML file of the page, about every 30 minutes and then he shall keep the memory. This proliferation of file goes to affect the space available in the Mac: Harwick was found with 2 GB of image files created since its first use of the browser. Think of the number of sites you visit daily, you multiply by 2 (the two image files) and have a vague idea of what this could be “cumbersome”.
However, the shocking thing is that the Safari 4 beta for Leopard doesn’t ever delete these files and stores them in a folder invisible not easily accessible: the files needed to create and preview are saved in a folder hidden in the maze of Mac , which most users will not be able to access easily. Therefore, the option to clean the history, you can select from the options of your browser, do not delete these files. If you want to do so, we must do it manually by entering the folder. However this appears to be a bug in this version only for Leopard, as Tiger users do not seem to lament that fact of removing the history through the options provided by the browser.
In addition, for Wordpress Blogger would find upgrading to Safari 4 isn’t a good idea because when you try to do anything that involve opening a little windows, it will get stuck and freeze the window and there’s nothing you can do to make the Wordpress editing window come back again, you have to just close it.
As for me, after tried it for a week. One thing i like about it, is that tap windows are now no-limit. You can open as many taps as you want, when taps exceed the windows, they will shrink to fit your Safari window, like what Firefox has for years. One other thing i am not a big fan is the ‘top sites’ window, to me it’s so much like for beginner web browsers. But i am a hard core WordPress blogger so, i had to switch back to version 3 for now and let somebody else have a good use at it first then i might come back to it some other time with more confidence.
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