Experience the web Apple Style with Safari the fastest easiest to use web browser in the world With its simple elegant interface Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc and included in Mac OS X It was first released as a public beta on January 7 2003 and a final version was included as the default browser in Mac OS X v10 3 A beta version for Windows was released for the first time on June 11 2007 Safari also runs on Wine although the graphics do not display properly
Safari has a bookmark management scheme that functions like the iTunes jukebox software integrates Apple 39 s QuickTime multimedia technology and features a tabbed browsing interface A Google search box is a standard component of the Safari interface as are software services that automatically fill out web forms manage passwords via Keychain and spell check entries into web page text fields The browser also includes an integrated pop up ad blocker An associated software from Apple is the Web Inspector a DOM Inspector like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page
Since the release of Safari its browser usage share has been climbing For the month of May 2007 thecounter com shows that Safari has a usage share of 2 86 NetApplications com reports that Safari has a usage share of 4 59 as of April 2007 an increase of 1 33 percentage points since May 2006