Arg! This seems to sum up my first run tests for Apple’s latest Chrome motivated kick at the browser can. Now, with IE8 out (and Gazelle on the way), Chrome 2 coming, FF3.1 almost there (depending on what day you catch the developers), Safari 4 beta rounds out the crowd of popular browsers that are in the “just out of the wrapper” phase of use. Speaking of the wrapper, it took a few tries to get Safari for me in the first place – hence the first part of the arg.
So trying to get the download file through this works how? So after hammering reload a few times, clearing cache and trying all the browsers I have, nothing. So I turn to Twitter… a quick search there reveals a tinyurl link that works and shows me this:
Ok, so now I can get things going. Not quite, after the cool startup sound, Safari proceeds to crash out of the gates. But a quick relaunce later and things are working. Plowing through the typical surf and turf sites that I visit, and checking banking and other logins (WebCT et al), Safari just bombed along – hit enter and the page just about explodes on the page. So ready to share my initial experiences with everyone else… and to log this experience into my online brain, I get into my WP Admin, hit new post and notice something is missing… I can’t upload any images! This post needs images! This won’t do!
I know this is beta, and for a first out of the box public release, I like it. If I need to put up images, I can grab FF and work from there, as I think it might start using Safari 4 most things and hopefully the media gallery bug can be worked out by Apple or WP as needed. One thing that I will miss from FF is the ability to save open tabs. The coverflow history makes up for some of this – ensuring that you don’t need to be opening tabs that you are not going to use in a session, but the option would certainly be nice. Now I just have to get Cooliris to work.
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