As you may know, BookFool.com is a Mac-based business. For the book industry, this is basically unheard of. But we’re not blind followers and fanboys. Before I made the switch official, I put the new Safari through its paces, and I must say it does seem quicker than other browsers. It definitely gives me a fluid, clean browsing experience.

I’ve always liked Safari, but there were two huge reasons that I stuck with Firefox:

• Safari’s Find Feature (Command +F or Edit/Find) would not search inside non-editable text boxes. We ship thousands of orders per week from our browsers, and we sometimes need to find orders based on customer name or zip-code. The new Safari can search inside these boxes and does so with style:

• It always drove me nuts that clicking a link in Safari opened a new window instead of just a new tab. Sure you can hold Command while clicking to pop links into new tabs, but I don’t want to do that! This was a barrier to full-time Safari use until I found this fix at MacTips.org that cleared the path to new-tab bliss.

If you gave up on Safari in the past, the new version is definitely worth a second look. Be dazzled by the improved Find feature. And marvel at its slick wall of Top Sites.

Oh, and did I mention it’s fast?

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