SlashGear Japan
It wasn’t all hardware at Apple’s WWDC 2009 event: Safari 4, the company’s browser, finally came out of beta, and Phil Schiller saved some fighting talk for all web rivals. According to Apple, Safari 4 is 7.8x faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, and passes all 100 of the Acid 3 tests while IE8 languishes behind at 21/100.
Safari 4 is also more crash-resistant, thanks to a new way of handling plugins. According to Apple, plugins are the number one cause of browser crashes; by splitting them off as a separate process, should the plugins fail the browser itself will continue to run.
Other changes include Cover Flow review of the browser history and full Spotlight search. Safari 4 is available to download now, for Leopard, Tiger and Windows systems.
One Response to “Apple Safari 4: crash-resistant and 7.8x faster than IE8”
LarryMcJ June 10, 2009
You have got to be sh!tting us!!! The newly released Safari 4 crashes about twice an hour here on two machines (both pristine). Try searching on this…it’s crashing everywhere. I’m as big a Safari fan as possible, but this release version has to be fixed.
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