Apple Safari has really come up with highly interactive and user-friendly tabs. Today a lot of other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet explorer and Netscape Navigator offer tabbed web surfing, but the way Apple Safari has created its tabs totally captures the interest of window users.
You will find a lot of vital features in Safari’s tabs which are absent in the other browsers. Safari tabs are more creative and exciting to work with. The major advantage of Safari tabs is you can drag a tab and it will show you a small snapshot of the web page associated with that tab. If you drop that tab anywhere outside the tab bar, a new window will open showing the web page of the corresponding tab. If you are working with more than one tab at a time, you can also rearrange them by simply clicking on a tab and moving it either left or right inside the tab bar. You can clearly see that the movement of other tabs when they adjust themselves according to the shifted one. This animated property of tabs makes it easier for the users to determine where the tab will get placed (which is being shifted) and how this rearrangement of tabs will look like. Mozilla Firefox does not have these kinds of animated tabs and thus I frequently face issues whenever I rearrange my tabs. Apple has really shown a great piece of innovation.
Safari Tabs showing a snapshot of the web pages when getting dragged
The Ventura County star offers the -maybe obvious - insight in an article about the Safari Browser for windows PCs: It is nice, but not a necessity.
However, even in this article, the reviewer can’t deny the new browesr’s speed and accuracy in showing websites.
Safari 3.1 for windows is still in its infancy and was only released in middle of March, so we should not expect any major increases in usage yet.
The Safari on Windows version claims to be best performing browser out there, and recent test results have only supported this case.
According to this graphic from hitslink, the Safari browser hits 5% market share. Hoever, this does include all macs and iPhone based versions as well.
Microsoft Internet Explorer still leads with 78%, followed by Firefox with 15% and Safari with the mentioned 5%.
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