Apple Releases Safari 3.1

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Apple Releases Safari 3.1
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Posted by: Charles

Apple today announced the release of Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows. According to the company, Safari 3.1 loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences.

"Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience."

Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. It also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites. A complete list of changes is available here.

To update to Safari 3.1, use Software Update or a standalone installer.

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Weee · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

I haven't noticed a difference in speed. But I like that you can double click and open a new tab now. Very Happy

Fox · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

I haven't either. Safari continues to stumble when loading many sites, and this is on every mac I own. I wish I could solve this problem because it is my browser of choice. When it doesn't stumble, it does load incredibly fast.
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JohnnyBoy · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

Perhaps it's just my perception (Apple have brainwashed me!!! Very Happy

) but I've found that after the update, websites are loading instantaneously. I don't think it was this quick before I updated...
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Ben Tex · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Pleiades · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

I also didn't notice a huge difference between 3.0 and 3.1.
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TonyMontana · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject:

After surfing my normal sites and building some cache, on my Windows machine here at work, 3.1 is VERY quick. I have a extremely low end PC at work with 256MB Ram, and Safari is running great!
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boehmb · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 85 Location: Glenview IL

On my Macs, 3.1 is about the same. On my Windows machine (Vista at home, XP at work) it is much faster than Firefox or IE and a pleasure to use.

Ben Tex · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

I agree with the last two comments. Safari 3.1 seems to be running much better on Windows. I also noticed that it took a long time to install. Mine was working and writing pretty hard there. Did you guys notice that?

TonyMontana · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject:

Definitely took a few minutes on the Windows pc.
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Poison Apple · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

I'd love to use Safari more but I can't get it to open more than one tab as my "Home" like I can do in Firefox. To me Safari does seem faster than Firefox so that's why I'd like to use it more, if I could just get past the tab issue.
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LowPro · New Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Have you guys noticed the new menu option? now you can select if you want a "Develop" Menu to show up on the menu bar, it lets you change the User Agent to Firefox, Opera, IE6 or 7, you also have the manual setting option and thats useful when you run into sites that are IE7 only or another specific browser Smile

give it a try

macmanmacman · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 1691

Safari hasn't loaded any faster in fact i think it's loading slower.

Wow this sucks.

WheelSpinners · Veteran Member Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 751

Fox · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

Having used 3.1 for a few days, it only seems to stumble infrequently now. I'm going to make it my main browser again for awhile and see what happens.
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