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hey guys jon rettinger here with an overview for you of safari for beta if you don't know what safari is it's apple's default browser it's been tripping on max for years and just a little under a year ago was with these four windows so this version of safari for beta is available for all macs obviously and also available for pcs running XP Vista those of you that are testing windows 7 so when you open up safari 4 beta you'll agree with this topside grid view and it may look familiar for those of you that use google chrome this is a more 3d representation though of your 12 most viewed or more bookmarked web sites kind of scroll through and see what you like find a site you want to visit simply double-click it and draw up to that site to go back to the top sides of grid view hit the icon upper left-hand corner and you are back Apple gives you some customization options to a safari 4 i'm going out of the bottom left and hit edit you can remove or add pages here and if this 12 grid layout isn't for you you can view more or view less i personally think 12 is a very nice number so i keep it here so one other cool implementation and applluse is coverflow you don't know what coverflow is it was first pioneered in itunes and then was later ported over as a file management system in OS 10 leopard it's another way to graphically flip through all your files or songs or whatever it is you're looking at so in this case lets you flip through your web sites it's actually very cool so go to bookmarks and you can very quickly and easily scroll through all your websites there was youtube channel go through and find what you like double-click it and you're off to that website so one thing that Apple did was safari 4 beta certain design cute and I'm not so happy with is there a tabbed interface look up top here you can see the tabs are now on top of the address bar I'll go ahead and add a few more so you can see takes a little while to get used to its very counterintuitive all previous browsers that use tabs were below that address bar so it's definitely something that's going to take a little bit of time it's not impossible you over but just something to be worried of safari for beta was benchmarked against some of the most popular browsers including a Google Chrome Internet Explorer opera and firefox actually safari forwards found to be the fastest out of all of those dethroning the once king Google Chrome which is actually still in beta itself so speed is your thing safari for beta is definitely the way to go I think once it gets out of beta to release candidate status it really will be a very solid browser I'm relatively loyal to Firefox so it's not going to make me switch but i am using as a secondary browse and i'm very quickly becoming used to it i may at some point venture over to it so guys it's just a very quick overview of safari forbid i hope you enjoy if you like the download this go to apple.com / too far and you'll find a bear for your platform of choice like some exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / John for lakers I will see you guys in the next video bye bye