Safari 5 Released for Download

Apple has silently released the Safari 5, the next major version of the world’s best browser. Version 5 brings in bunch of new features, notably:

Safari Reader

A readability funciton that has been built into the browser.  If you're browsing a page that Safari detects an article, it presents you with a "Reader icon"  in the Smart Address Field.  When clicked this then presents you with a 'Lightboxish', simple and clean way of continuing to read the article, in one long and continous feed.  I love it!

Greater HTML5 Support

With Apple's continued support and advertisement of support for HTML5 (ahem Adobe), they've included even more features for HTML5 support.  Items noted are full screen view and closed captions for <video> tag, and Geolocation

Better Performance

Apple has integrated a faster Nitro engine that makes Safari 5 30 times faster than its previous version, along with DNS pre-fetching and improved caching.

Bing Search

In addition to the default Google search, Safari have now included Microsoft's Bing search......should you want it?

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