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Safari 4 Tops 11 Million Downloads in First Three Days

Apple today announced that the final version of its Safari 4 browser, officially launched Monday after the company's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address, has been downloaded over 11 million times in the first three days of release. Notably, Safari for Windows has accounted for over half of the total downloads.

Apple today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world's fastest, most innovative browser and is built on the world's most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.

Safari 4 is a free download available from Apple's site.

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35 months ago
I like to add that I contributed to that count, 4 times.
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35 months ago
Ditto, 4 home, 2 work.
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35 months ago
when they bundle it into software update, who would've thought? he he
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35 months ago
How many of those windows downloads do you think were slipped in with people who hadn't updated their iTunes/quicktime yet and they didn't even mean to download it?
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35 months ago
You gotta figure that most of those Windows downloads were Boot Camp users. I'm sure there's a few Safari fans on Windows, but lets not delude ourselves ...
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35 months ago
I noticed someone on the local news was still using Safari 4 Beta. He was going over the news with a video feed from his Mac screen this morning. That is a strange way to do the news. Using tabs to switch to different news stories and talking about them. Tabs were at the top.
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35 months ago

You gotta figure that most of those Windows downloads were Boot Camp users. I'm sure there's a few Safari fans on Windows, but lets not delude ourselves ...


haha probably true. I was at work yesterday (on my Mac) and I opened up a new Safari tab to show someone a website, and they saw the Quick Look screen while I was typing in the URL and it amazed them. They loved it.
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35 months ago
I didn't even know Safari 4 was released. You can add a +1 to that count in a moment :o
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35 months ago

You gotta figure that most of those Windows downloads were Boot Camp users. I'm sure there's a few Safari fans on Windows, but lets not delude ourselves ...


True

when they bundle it into software update, who would've thought? he he


More likely! I hit install without bothering to check what it was Apple was installing. I like this new build. The old one F'd up my skin.
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35 months ago
3 for me.... On 2 on my MacBook (boot camp) and downloaded it for my work computer as well. :)
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