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Safari Downloaded 11 million Times

Posted 06/12/2009 at 1:40:22pm | by Arvind Srinivasan

safari header The same day the European Union announces their epic pwnage of Internet Explorer, Apple has announced some good news about the latest update to their flagship browser, Safari 4.

Since it was announced and released at the WWDC Keynote, the feature-rich browser has been downloaded over 11 million times. Even more surprising, is the fact that 6 million of those downloads were from Windows users. Furthermore, since Software Update generally runs on weekends, there will likely be a substantial jump in the download numbers over the next two days. This is great news for Apple, whom we reported has increased Safari's market share at the expense of Internet Explorer over the past several years. That said, there are some users that have had problems with the new version of Safari, and/or miss some of the features found in the beta version. Have you made the jump, or are you sticking to Safari 3 (or some other browser)? Let us know in the comments.

COMMENTS: 7

TAGS: Safari 4, internet explorer

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Download
Submitted by caw61 on Fri, 2009-06-12 11:18

Part of the reason it was downloaded 11 million Times, was because it's offered as a software update. Granted, why download it if you don't use it; but there shouldn't be that much hype, especially if Apple forces it onto a user through Software Update.

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Safari 4
Submitted by baconstang on Fri, 2009-06-12 15:49

Yeah, I 'forced' myself to download it. Installed great, fast as hell and so far no issues with sites or printing.

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missing feature
Submitted by jrobert_12 on Fri, 2009-06-12 16:43

One thing that was in the beta but not in the final downlaod was the tabs bar in the top of the window. They changed it back to the way it was in safari 3 where it takes up space in the window.

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Tabs and stuff
Submitted by Quayzar on Fri, 2009-06-12 17:02

I like the tabs below for just organisational needs (reordering the tabs on top wasn't practical for me) but I really think they should have left a "tabs on top" tick option so one could have it if they wished. I still miss the old loading scheme and wish I could implement that and the new scheme together.

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tabs and stuff
Submitted by Arvind Srinivasan on Fri, 2009-06-12 18:12

@caw61 - I wouldn't necessarily agree that it was "forced," but I totally understand your pain. Downgrading after an update through software update is always much harder than upgrading, and if you forget to uncheck the box even once, you are sucked in. more importantly, my plugins broke. i don't understand what would change between the beta and the release that had any relevance to the plugins
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The only thing I'm aware of
Submitted by caw61 on Sat, 2009-06-13 15:18

The only thing I'm aware of with plugins in Safari 4 is that if a plug in fails, it doesn't cause the whole browser to crash. Whether that involves reinstalling after a plug in fails, resetting, etc, I haven't a clue.

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Slower?
Submitted by carg1 on Sat, 2009-06-13 19:59

Just me or was the beta faster? I just did the update and it seems like pages render slower for me than they did in the beta. Also, I kind of liked the tabs better on top. Wonder if there's a workaround for that.

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