I had been planning to use Safari from the day of its release. Now that i have come to windows to win back my BMW GT3 that sucker Razor stole from me(err… that was long back when NFS Most Wanted got out), I gave it a try. The buzzword behind the Safari marketing is ‘speed’. The interesting claim is that of a 2x speed of IE7 and 1.6x speed of FF. What better way to test the speed of a browser than to write a blog in it! Till now, the browser looks sleek. It loads page real fast. A new feature that ships with Safari is SnapBack. Safari understands that when surfing the net, we are prone to lose track and follow the random surfer model :). 
SnapBack remembers checkpoints in your session like the google search page from which you started digressing and provides a one click icon to get you back on your track. The inline find does a much better job than its counterparts in other browsers. You need to check it out to find out what innovation is possible in something as simple as inline find. I now understand why it is said that Apple has some of the world’s best UI engineers.
It delivers what it promises but loses out on the other features. I have begun to miss my mouse gestures and content blocking already! That coupled with the fact that there is no support for third party plugins or widgets means that Safari users will have to be content with a pretty primitive browser. Safari is said to be buggy and is usually not the first choice of Mac Users. I am sure I would return to good old Opera when i am done ogling at the cool UI of the browser.So the bottomline is if it is raw speed and a simple UI that you are after, then Safari is the one for you. But while you are at it, why dont you try out the latest Opera 9.21 😀
I think. 