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Safari

While I’m quite aware that every man and his proverbial dog has already made comment on Safari (and the new beta), and while I also know that you know that I’ve long been a Safari detractor, I’ve been giving it a serious workout the last couple of days.

Overall speed is (and always has been, from Apple’s perspective) Safari’s greatest feature. Loads quickly, steps back and forward through history quickly, switches tabs quickly. There just isn’t any lag — and that, my friends, is a fantastic thing on this platform. Demetallifization is a must in my opinion; and I’m glad to say that the bookmarks bar is intuitive, attractive and integrates well with tabbed browsing with its “open in tabs” function. Unfortunately, the same can not be said of Camino; whose bookmarks handling is horrible from any angle.

Truth be told, the reason Camino is (or was, as I’m growing accustomed to Safari) my default browser is simply the look. Even demetallifized, Safari’s tabs look just-plain-wrong; and the “loading” animation (in both the single-window and tabbed-window repect) is downright disturbing. At least in the GUI department (bookmark bar notwithstanding) Camino is fantastic. I look forward to future betas of both browsers, and maybe even the forthcoming WebCore-based OmniWeb. Thank god we have a choice in these matters.