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Apple has just released desktop Safari for Mac and Windows to 4.0.4, which improves full history search performance, has the mandatory stability improvements, and security fixes, but the big news as far as we’re concerned is the number one item on the list — Improved JavaScript performance

Desktop Safari is the big brother of the iPhone’s [...]

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Apple has just released the first public beta of their new Safari 4 web browser for both the Mac and Windows (the Windows version now looking like an actual XP or Vista app). New features include an iTunes/Finder-like CoverFlow visualization for exploring browser history, and Apple TV commercial-esque visual wall of Top Sites (which should [...]

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What is it? The latest build of Apple’s next generation desktop browser, based on their Open Source WebKit framework. Why do we care? Because the very same framework powers the desktop version’s baby brother, MobileSafari on the iPhone, and while the 2.0 firmware brought some improvements to the latter, we ain’t seen nothing like 4.0 [...]

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Hot on the heels of the just released Safari 3.1, some of whose features are reportedly trickling down to baby brother MobileSafari on the iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple has reportedly begun seeding early builds of Safari 4 (5526.11.2) to developers.

The big news? WebKit’s screaming fast SquirelFish Javascript engine is a go, and 53% faster, which [...]

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