Thanks to Top Sites, you can enjoy a stunning, at-a-glance preview of your favorite websites without lifting a finger. Safari 4 tracks the sites you browse and ranks your favorites, presenting up to 24 thumbnails on a single page. You can even customize the display by pinning a favorite site to a specific location in the grid. That locks it into position, so you know just where to find it every time you open Top Sites.
Wonder which sites have changed since your last visit? Sites with a star in the upper-right corner have new content. A single click opens the page and updates its thumbnail. Whenever you want to return to your ever-evolving Top Sites page, just click the new Top Sites button in the bookmarks bar.
New to Safari, Cover Flow offers a highly visual way of reviewing your site history and bookmarked sites, presenting full-page previews of the websites that look exactly as they did when you last visited them.
One look is all you need to recognize the site you want to visit. Simply flip through website previews in Cover Flow the same way you flip through album art in iTunes. Directional arrows let you browse forward and back. Or you can quickly flip through multiple sites using the slider. And when you find the site you want, simply click to open it.
With Full History Search and Cover Flow, what you see is where you went. Safari introduces a dramatic new way to revisit sites, letting you flip through full-page previews of the sites you visited in the past. You may not have total recall, but Safari does, automatically storing all the text and a thumbnail of every page in your history. That makes it easy for Safari to get results even if you remember little about the site you’re searching for.
Just type a word or phrase in the History Search field in Top Sites, and Safari quickly presents you with a list of possibilities. In fact, you can search for anything that was on a page you visited, even photo captions. To jog your memory, Safari presents the sites it finds in Cover Flow, giving you the opportunity to spot the right site on sight.
Still the world’s fastest web browser, Safari outraces Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome. On even the most demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari delivers blazingly fast performance thanks to the industry’s most advanced rendering technologies.
Using the new Nitro Engine, for example, Safari executes JavaScript nearly 8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and more than 4 times faster than Firefox 3 based on performance in leading industry benchmark tests: iBench and SunSpider.
In addition to superior JavaScript performance, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance — the best on any platform — loading pages 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.
If you’re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, you’ll feel right at home. That’s because Safari features a native look — just like other Windows applications — including a native title bar, borders, and toolbars. To provide a consistent Windows experience, Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Apple’s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer. Of course, Safari for Windows delivers the same lightning-fast performance provided by the Mac version.
In Safari, developers will find the best set of development tools ever included in a browser. Just turn them on in Safari preferences and use them to examine the structure of a page, debug JavaScript, optimize performance and compatibility, inspect offline databases, or test experimental pieces of code on the fly. For more specific information about each of the development tools, visit the Safari Dev Center page.
| Ctrl+N | Opens a new window. |
| Ctrl+T | Opens a new tab. |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Opens a new window in incognito mode. |
| Press Ctrl+O, then select file. | Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome. |
| Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Opens the link in a new tab in the background . |
| Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab. |
| Press Shift and click a link. | Opens the link in a new window. |
| Ctrl+Shift+T | Reopens the last tab you've closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you've closed. |
| Drag a link to a tab. | Opens the link in the tab. |
| Drag a link to a blank area on the tab strip. | Opens the link in a new tab. |
| Drag a tab out of the tab strip. | Opens the tab in a new window. |
| Drag a tab out of the tab strip and into an existing window. | Opens the tab in the existing window. |
| Press Esc while dragging a tab. | Returns the tab to its orginal position. |
| Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 | Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip. |
| Ctrl+9 | Switches to the last tab. |
| Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown | Switches to the next tab. |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp | Switches to the previous tab. |
| Alt+F4 | Closes the current window. |
| Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 | Closes the current tab or pop-up. |
| Click a tab with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Closes the tab you clicked. |
| Right-click, or click and hold either the Back or Forward arrow in the browser toolbar. | Displays your browsing history in the tab. |
| Press Backspace, or Alt and the left arrow together. | Goes to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab. |
| Press Shift+Backspace, or Alt and the right arrow together. | Goes to the next page in your browsing history for the tab. |
| Press Ctrl and click either the Back arrow, Forward arrow, or Go button in the toolbar. Or click either button with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Opens the button destination in a new tab in the background. |
| Double-click the blank area on the tab strip. | Maximizes the window. |
| Alt+Home | Opens your homepage in your current window. |
| Ctrl+B | Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off. |
| Ctrl+Shift+B | Opens the Bookmark manager. |
| Ctrl+H | Opens the History page. |
| Ctrl+J | Opens the Downloads page. |
| Shift+Esc | Opens the Task Manager. |
| Shift+Alt+T | Sets the focus on the browser toolbar. Use right and left arrows on the keyboard to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar. |
| Ctrl+Shift+J | Opens Developer Tools. |
| Ctrl+Shift+Delete | Opens the Clear Browsing Data dialog. |
| F1 | Opens the Help Center in a new tab (our favorite). |
Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:
| Type a search term, then press Enter. | Performs a search using your default search engine. |
| Type a search engine keyword, press Space, then Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter. | Performs a search using the search engine associated with the keyword. |
| Type a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter. | Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL. |
| Type the part of a URL between 'www.' and '.com', then press Ctrl+Enter. | Adds www. and .com to your input and open the resulting URL. |
| Type a URL, then press Alt+Enter. | Opens the URL in a new tab. |
| F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D | Highlights the URL. |
| Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E | Places a '?' in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine. |
| Click the address bar, then press Ctrl and the left arrow together. | Moves your cursor to the preceding key term in the address bar |
| Click the address bar, then press Ctrl and the right arrow together. | Moves your cursor to the next key term in the address bar |
| Click the address bar, then press Ctrl+Backspace. | Deletes the key term that precedes your cursor in the address bar |
| Select an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your keyboard arrows, then press Shift+Delete. | Deletes the entry from your browsing history, if possible. |
| Click an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Opens the entry in a new tab in the background. |
| Press Page Up or Page Down when the address bar drop-down menu is visible. | Selects the first or last entry in the drop-down menu. |
| Ctrl+P | Prints your current page. |
| Ctrl+S | Saves your current page. |
| F5 or Ctrl+R | Reloads your current page. |
| Esc | Stops the loading of your current page. |
| Ctrl+F | Opens the find bar. |
| Ctrl+G or F3 | Finds the next match for your input in the find bar. |
| Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3, or Shift+Enter | Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar. |
| Click the middle mouse button (or mousewheel). | Activates auto-scrolling. As you move your mouse, the page automatically scrolls according to the direction of the mouse. |
| Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 | Reloads your current page, ignoring cached content. |
| Press Alt and click a link. | Downloads the target of the link. |
| Ctrl+U | Opens the source of your current page. |
| Drag a link to bookmarks bar | Bookmarks the link. |
| Ctrl+D | Bookmarks your current webpage. |
| F11 | Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full-screen. |
| Ctrl and +, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel up. | Enlarges everything on the page. |
| Ctrl and -, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel down. | Makes everything on the page smaller. |
| Ctrl+0 | Returns everything on the page to normal size. |
| Space bar | Scrolls down the web page. |
| Home | Goes to the top of the page. |
| End | Goes to the bottom of the page. |
| Press Shift and scroll your mousewheel. | Scrolls horizontally on the page. |
| Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C. | Copies content to the clipboard. |
| Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert. | Pastes content from the clipboard. |
| Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V. | Paste content from the clipboard without formatting. |
| Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete. | Deletes the content and copies it to the clipboard. |
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What's New in Firefox 3.5.2
The most important bugs are fixed
List of bugs are here
| ID | Sev | Pri | OS | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 479667 | enh | -- | Wind | Firefox should use SetProcessDEPPolicy to enable NX on XP SP3 |
| 501657 | nor | -- | Linu | xulrunner-1.9.1 will fail to build if system ply <2.5> |
| 503886 | nor | -- | All | Allow non-mozilla central applications to use automation-build.mk |
| 495798 | nor | -- | Wind | background-color:transparent on button not honored in high contrast mode |
| 504032 | nor | -- | Mac | [FIX]Cloning media lists needs to copy mIsEmpty |
| 500254 | blo | -- | Mac | Crash in vorbis_book_decodevv_add at vorbis_codebook.c:483 |
| 500978 | nor | -- | All | Download Manager treats search terms as regular expressions |
| 495224 | min | -- | All | Builds involving symlinks in the source dir fail to find config/config.mk |
| 504706 | nor | -- | Mac | bug 502604 fix had bumpy landing on 1.9.1 |
| 493440 | tri | -- | All | URI elements in the Properties dialog should always be LTR |
| 495495 | cri | -- | All | Entering Private Browsing mode prohibits keyboard focus on URL location bar |
| 501124 | cri | -- | Wind | Missing strtointeger path in js_StringToInt32 |
| 492200 | nor | -- | All | Upgrade libpng to 1.2.37 |
| 497355 | blo | -- | All | Assertion failure: STOBJ_GET_CLASS(obj) != &js_BlockClass, at /Users/moztest/comm/main/src/mozilla/js/src/jsscope.cpp:79 |
| 497363 | maj | -- | Wind | qcms renders wrong colors on some "good" monitors |
| 502574 | min | -- | All | Defunct loop in onTitleChanged |
| 502832 | nor | -- | All | TM: Crash [@ memcpy] |
| 502890 | nor | -- | All | Assigning to a called method on trace does not change the object's shape |
| 497172 | enh | -- | All | Add default OCSP responder for globalsign |
| 497184 | nor | -- | All | Add default OCSP responder for trustwave |
| 498500 | nor | -- | Mac | Mac DMG unpackaging is unreliable |
| 493837 | nor | -- | All | JarMaker fails when using ../configure directly |
| 504043 | cri | -- | Sola | Firefox will crash on sparc platform when some website. |
| 505416 | nor | -- | Sola | http://www.usatoday.com/ crash on sparc. |
| 507963 | nor | -- | Linu | Intermittent failure of browser_privatebrowsing_findbar.js |
| 502273 | nor | -- | Wind | contentEditable is disabled if an attribute is removed from the node |
| 500931 | nor | -- | Wind | xpcIJSWeakReference.get() unwraps XPCNativeWrapper |
| 501270 | nor | -- | Mac | Assertion failure: !fp->fun || !(fp->fun->flags & JSFUN_HEAVYWEIGHT) || fp->callobj |
| 501577 | nor | -- | Linu | Possible leak in nsXPCWrappedJS::GetNewOrUsed |
| 502449 | cri | -- | Mac | Crash [@ __memcpy] |
| 503817 | cri | -- | All | Assertion failure: original == thisv || original == OBJECT_TO_JSVAL(obj) |
| 502723 | nor | -- | Wind | updater checks the wrong MAX_PATH define |
| 496534 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-browser-chrome: browser_pluginnotification.js fails (and times out) |
| 499429 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-browser-chrome: "browser_tabs_owner.js | 4 tabs are open - Got 5, expected 4" |
| 495098 | cri | -- | All | Crash when using single XMLHttpRequest object for two simultaneous requests; test case included [@ nsXMLHttpRequest::StreamReaderFunc ] |
| 496308 | cri | -- | Mac | Crash [@ nsDOMPopupBlockedEvent::GetRequestingWindow] |
| 500822 | nor | -- | All | Importing passwords to mozstorage can fail when signons3.txt is corrupted. |
| 498897 | maj | -- | Wind | Web code gets "permission denied" error if a content policy is present |
| 499770 | nor | -- | All | um.activeUpdate is null in onStopRequest for some edgecases |
| 503468 | nor | -- | All | canPlayType should return "", not "no" |
| 453689 | nor | -- | Linu | Firefox needs to register the proper name with session management for restart |
| 491910 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-plain: "test_bug391728.html | Test plugin was not found" |
| 472097 | nor | -- | Wind | xul!nsMemoryImpl::IsLowMemory is broken on systems w/ lots of vm |
| 488210 | cri | -- | Mac | "ASSERTION: Going to destroy a frame we didn't remove. Prepare to crash" with XUL listbox |
| 504275 | nor | -- | Linu | Bookmark favicon images with menus_have_icons=false |
| 504647 | nor | -- | All | JITted regular expressions crash SPARC Nanojit |
| 496917 | blo | P1 | All | Can't include an arbitrary version name in the version field of the update xml |
| 501275 | maj | P1 | All | TM: Crash [@ nanojit::Assembler::nPatchBranch] |
| 501605 | cri | P1 | Wind | very slow startup for Firefox 3.5 due to accessing IE Internet Temporary Files and Windows Temp folder |
| 504456 | cri | P1 | All | Exploitable heap overflow in NSS shell expression (filename globbing) parsing |
| 492720 | nor | P2 | All | libgjs failed to compile with jsopcode.h of Firefox 3.5 beta 4 |
| 451898 | nor | -- | All | URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write |
| 495297 | nor | -- | All | Unnecessary relinking of libxul |
| 495058 | nor | -- | All | Location bar emptyText not shown when deteaching blank tab or about:privatebrowsing into a new window |
| 496832 | nor | -- | All | Disable media entries in context menu when media source is invalid |
| 503750 | cri | -- | All | Crash when parameters of navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition are null [@ nsGeolocationRequest::SendLocation(nsIDOMGeoPosition*) ] |
| 496287 | nor | -- | All | App update incompatible list should not warn about disabled/blocklisted items |
| 454047 | nor | -- | All | Pop-up locationbar is editable after session restore |
| 496097 | nor | -- | All | Handlers dialog list items have no accessible names. |
| 393832 | nor | -- | All | svg circle with infinite radius causes hang |
| 495184 | nor | -- | Linu | current drag operation (dropEffect) is not updated while dragging outside the application |
| 497723 | nor | -- | Mac | [Mac] Alltabs dropdown lacks scroll arrows |
| 478528 | nor | -- | All | mochitest-plain: test_bug419527.xhtml (and test_bug375314.html) intermittently leaks 300 kB, after using |document.addBinding()| |
| 490253 | nor | -- | All | TestAUSReadStrings.cpp: fix nits in result reports |
| 490258 | nor | -- | Wind | TestXREMakeCommandLineWin: fix nits in result reports |
| 503308 | nor | -- | Linu | Debug build failure in toolkit/mozapps/update/TestAUSReadStrings.cpp: undefined reference to `NS_DebugBreak' |
| 397185 | nor | -- | Wind | test_textbox_number.xul fails when decimal separator set in Regional Settings is comma |
| 475383 | nor | -- | All | load plugins from $profile/plugins |
| 479995 | nor | P1 | Linu | [linux] mozUserCancelled isn't implemented on gtk / pressing ESC while dragging a tab doesn't cancel the drag (bug 465608 isn't fixed) |
| 487567 | cri | P2 | OS/2 | OS/2 cannot sign softokn3.dll after upgrade to nss-3.12.3 |
