This browser rocks. First thing in over 2 years that got me to ditch Firefox. A bunch of Euro-Opera-Lovers here. Opera is slow, and sucks with Flash. I really tried to like Opera, but it is my 5th favorite browser behind Safari, Firefox, Camino & Chrome.
I am very impressed with Safari 4 Beta...

http://dougitdesign.com/blog.html

this thing eats up 150MB of ram idle.

another bloated software package by apple. good job!

Opera does that already, has done for about a year. It also syncs lots of other settings and documents between all your instances of browsers, regardless of platform. It also syncs bookmarks and notes to Opera Mini and Opera Mobile.

Add a bookmark on your phone, and it it appears on your desktop(s) and vice-versa.

I think Firefix has a addon to do this too, but it comes as standard with Opera, and works VERY well.

Why can not one of these new browsers sort bookmarks by name?

Also if you have more than one browser and more than one machine you are going to want to synch them. Why not add useful features like that instead of cover view and flashy home pages.

The whole point of a tabbed page is that is appears like a tabbed page. The page and tab should be visually connected, thats the visual analogy which you are breaking by separating them. Its doesn;t save any screen space by moving it to the top, it just means we now have to move the mouse further to click on it.

Safari 4 like the earlier version, tends to freeze often when I've a lot of tabs. I still like it because its fast on many pages especially Gmail.

So it will never be my main browser.

Welcome late to the party. Operas has speed dial for 2 years, Chrome had it for a year..

Apple masters of stealing everyones ideas....

If you look at the entire Safari 4 feature list, it reads like a list of existing Opera features, or at worst, already in Opera 10 alpha.

When will people wake up, and see who is REALLY innovating, and who is just copying...

Its still grey or gray which ever you prefer.

What's the betting it'll work flawlessly on ancient versions of Win XP, but will only work on the latest release of OS X? (What we in the trade call a bloody stupid decision.)

Compiz? You mean the Linux/XOrg desktop 3D wobbly windows version of Apple's Quartz Extreme that they introduced years and years ago, adding things like Expose in 2003, etc?

Next you'll say that Linux did CoverFlow before the guy that Apple bought out that did CoverFlow did!

Innovative, hmmmm, honestly OSS groups and Opera should look into this innovation. Two words explain this simply, Compiz and Speed Dial... ok ok I know that is three words but in reality it is two technologies. Opera came out with speed dial a long time ago, and compiz has been around for years.

Me thinks Apple should be taken to court on this since they seem to have the audacity to go around saying that they own IP on multi-touch tech. Give'em a taste or their own grubby little tactics.

Cheers

Looks like they finally did the same as mozilla and m$ did some time ago, they simply implement all features of Opera, and call them something new.

The reall question is not how it looks but how secure is it from outside intrusion/ expoits.

My guess is not very.
I will wait to see if the same old exploits that have been used against Safari in the past get through this version.

I am betting they will.