My first trip on my 4th Safari

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.

safari-failSo 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:

safari-run

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!

dashboard-fail

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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