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I've been using a lot of this in a developer preview for a while now, and the improvements over 3 are many, especially in the massively improved web inspector. The majority of the new things today are in the UI -- the tabs at the top, the top sites home screen -- and the majority of that is just Chrome done better.

I'm surprised at how quickly they've aped Google, actually. Perhaps just to spite them for taking so goddamn long over Mac Chrome? To be honest, I'd rather they'd aped the process-per-tab thing more.

Still missing: undo last tab close. Don't like the fixed "Add bookmark" button much, either.

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I've been using the Web Inspector in WebKit nightlies for awhile now and it still doesn't measure up to FireBug.

Even the simplest thing like changing CSS properties on the fly just don't work right in Web Inspector yet. I can't wait for it to catch up though so I can quit running 2 browsers simultaneously all the time!

I still like Firebug better too. Unfortunately its debugger has massive stability issues (at least on larger files). I can kind of get it to work if I talk really nicely to it. Not clear to me what the source of the problem really is, but the last few releases have been mostly bug fixes, and they seem to introduce as many bugs as they fix. That's a bad sign.

The Web Inspector is actually part of WebKit itself (the rendering engine). You can get any improvements that happen there and between the chrome (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) by downloading WebKit nightlies: http://nightly.webkit.org

This update is for Safari itself, which is the UI/chrome.

As it is part of WebKit it on Linux you can play with the inspector using Arora

http://code.google.com/p/arora/wiki/Screenshots

I don't see why they'd "spite" Google for taking long on Chrome. They don't want Chrome on the Mac... they get to charge Google for the searches that come through Safari.

Chrome is the best browser I've used yet. Firefox is nice but I'm a big fan of minimalism and chrome is minimal in most aspects.(Except Memory but I will sacrifice memory for sanity)

I'll take a Vimperator over Chrome for minimalism at least as far as interface. It has all the Firefox issues with memory.

I too am a big Vimperator fan. Plus, it forces practice of the number bar, something that I'm still not awesome at even after all these years.

Firefox takes ages to load. All the plugins everyone loves so much are hogs of memory and just plain annoying. The only plugins worth a damn are adblock and greasemonkey, the rest Chrome already has.

Also I cannot seem to grok vim/emacs.

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