Safari

"I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little "wired," and I think I deserve a little appreciation!" – Memphis, Gone in Sixty Seconds (Touchstone Pictures, 2000)

If you pay a lot of attention to your online security, you're probably not reading this. If you pay no attention, you're probably screwed! If you have a normal concern…how bad can it be? Take a minute and go to your favorite sites and search on the subject of online/onphone security.

You'll probably find that:

• there's an increase in the presence of malicious content on trusted sites – including search engines, blogs, bulletin boards, personal web sites, online magazines and mainstream news sites
• there are more than 170,000 new malware apps spotted every month
• more than 800,000 phishing emails were reported in one month at mid-year
• $4.5 bln lost to phishing in 2007
• $740 mln lost in 2 years to e-mail scams
• 1.45% of e-mails sent in May 2006 contained viruses
• 129 mln Americans received phishing e-mails
• 4.57% of Gmail filtered spam is false positive
• 22.5 million different samples of malware were recorded in June, double the year before
• New webpage infections were discovered by Sophos every 3.6 sec (4x faster than last year)

June 8, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple today released Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3.* Safari 4 makes browsing more intuitive and enjoyable with innovative features, such as Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects.

"The successful beta release helped us fine tune Safari 4 into an even better, faster version that customers are going to love," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Safari is enjoyed by 70 million users worldwide and with its blazing fast speed, innovative features and support for modern web standards, it's the best browser on any platform."Read more

February 24, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.* Innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable include Top Sites, for a stunning visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed browsing easier and more intuitive.

"Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed and open standards back into web browsers, and today it takes another big step forward," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "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."

Safari 4 is built on the world's most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and more than three times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages three times faster than IE 7 and almost three times faster than Firefox 3.* Read more