Alongside the Mac OS X 10.4.11 updates today, Apple also released a new beta of Safari for Windows.The latest Safari beta for Windows incorporates a number of stability, performance and security improvements. A number of new features are detailed as well, including:

New Features

1. Allows windows to be resized from any side
2. Includes an additional font smoothing option (”standard”)
3. Adds International text input methods
4. Adds advanced text options (contextual forms, international scripts)
5. Supports NTLM
6. Includes auto-detection of PAC files
7. Supports listing FTP directories
8. Links to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
9. Adds cookie management
10. Adds LiveConnect support
11. Includes tooltips
12. Adds spell checking and grammar checking
13. Allows printing of page numbers, titles, margins
14. Improves bookmark collection interface
15. Maintains original order of imported bookmarks
16. Adds an interface for editing AutoFill information
17. History searches now search the full text of visited websites
18. Adds a new preference to manually mark RSS articles as read
19. Includes support for tilt wheels

Apple also incorporated Safari 3 with the Mac OS X 10.4.11 update, bringing the final version of Safari 3 to Tiger users. Apple first released Safari for Windows in June at WWDC 2007.

Download : Safari 3.0.4 (Windows)

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