It’s smart, innovative, and speedy, offering a lot of other unique features; that’s what the reviewers are saying about Apple’s Safari 4 Web browser.

Apple released a public beta of its new Safari 4 Web browser, available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista, on February 24. The beta version of Apple’s new Safari 4 Web browser has been getting favorable reviews.

Definitely, the beta of Apple’s new Safari 4 Web browser is amazingly fast and stuffed with a number of innovative features. The Betanews tests of Apple's new beta of Safari for Windows, using a freshly cleaned Windows Vista SP1 virtual machine "white box," have shown that Apple have made significant speed improvements in new Safari 4 Web browser, which is even faster and better that previous Safari versions.

On the Web Standards Project's Acid3 test, which is the most reliable test for web browsers in the industry, the Safari 4 beta scored a perfect 100%.

The new innovative features of the Safari 4 beta make it stand apart from other web browsers. It offers several improved and updated features. The most noticeable one is its refined tabbed browsing. It also features a new "Top Sites" display, which displays the most-visited sites. It offers new way to search through browser history and bookmarks, and an altered toolbar that drops the reload button used to refresh Web pages.

Safari 4 offers a drop-down list of sites such as eBay, Amazon, Craigs List, Flickr and so forth, on the right of the links options immediately below the web-address bar. It appears a simple looking web browser, but it is wonderfully fast while working. 

Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing, proclaimed, "Safari 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser for Mac and Windows, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards that enables the next generation of interactive web applications."

The latest data from analytics and research firm NetApplications articulates that Safari is officially the world's no. 3 Web browser. The major reason is that it is mainly the web browser for Mac and iPhone and its user base is relatively negligible in Windows.