Safari 4 Released Today

Among the torrent of news is the announcement that Safari 4 ship today, boasting “unparalleled speed”, especially when compared to IE8 (this is Apple talking, not me). Included in the new browser is a full history search, featuring a cover flow view of the user’s browsing history (as well as a full spotlight search). And it looks like they’ve thought a lot about the browser when building the new OS –In Snow Leopard, Safari runs as a 64-bit application, “boosting performance by up to 50 percent.” Also in SL, Safari plug-ins run as separate processes. When a plug-in crashes, the browser remains intact, meaning you can just reload the page, not the browser itself.