[cleamon]

Just take the time to look under the hood --- Chrome IS safari..

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.48 Safari/525.19"

[arkham999]

I've been using the new Safari on Windows and on the Mac for a couple of days now. I love the use of cover flow for bookmarks and history (though it's too slow right now). I love the "Top Sites" feature, though again, too slow.
The new tab bar though, I don't love. I've been a Mac user for 21 years now, and I don't feel like it offers a significant benefit over the Safari 3 tabs, and the cost to usability is high. I didn't like the tabs in Chrome, and I don't like these either for all the reasons enumerated in the article.

[whitedog]

If you like the tabs in Safari 3, you can restore them (and other features like the progress bar) in Safari 4 using a utility like MacPilot. No doubt other utilities, like Onyx, will soon offer some of the same options. But MacPilot has the widest variety of Safari (and other) customization choices I've seen anywhere and it is the first to be updated for Safari 4.=
As for comparisons with Chrome, who "stole" what from whom is rather a silly matter to quibble over. The cross-pollination of ideas among software developers benefits the consumer in the long run. By the way, Safari 4 on Windows adopts the UI of the version of Windows it's running in, which finally makes Safari competitive in that market. Heretofore, it was just too ugly in Windows to be taken seriously.
In addition, Safari 4 is the most standards compliant browser available - it scores 100 out of 100 on the Acid 3 test. If a web site (like Hotmail) doesn't work in Safari, it's because it was designed to work in the least standards compliant browser out there - Internet Exploder. That Microsoft persists in this non-compliant strategy - even with the IE 8 beta - says a lot about their attitude toward their customers and the community of web designers who have to scrounge for IE workarounds for their web sites. Which is to say they couldn't care less.

[whitedog]

{quote}The one Windows convention it hasn't adopted is the placement of the "close tab" button. It is still on the left, whereas a Windows user would expect it on the right."

If that's the worst than can be said of Safari on Windows it should do just fine.

[markyyy]

I had stopped using Safari because it's lack of compatibility with sites that uses online payment (not all of them but too many I used).. I switched to Opera more than a year ago, and loved the fact it had back then the speed dial, which allowed you to put any site in any of the dials.
It's strange that chrome got such a big story out of a browser that was PC only, using an already older technology, safari really just made it 3D... nothing better than what Opera has been doing for years... probably better... I think they are a big leap ahead of Apple and Chrome... my 2 cents...
MP.

[chrisyfitzuk]

I also have all three browsers installed and I use each one for a different reason.

Safari - it´s quick and quite good - but awful boring.

Opera - quick and with some really good features such as having each of my email accounts constantly updated. It is also safe. Plus, the ability to change `skins´ easily is nice

Firefox has the best feature set. I love Cool Previews and Apture and Juice and - oh so many more - but (I guess because I have all these goodies on) it can be so much slower. The fact that you don´t have that irritating Widget thing - the add-ons are integral to the browser appeals to me.

So why doesn´t someone develop a browser with the best of the best - now that would be cool!