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Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox are the two top browser products in the market. The innovative Opera browser can't compete because it's largely unknown. The Safari browser couldn't compete because it's largely known only as a Mac browser, though Windows has had a version for almost a year. Last month, however, Apple released a browser called Safari 3.1, the best choice for web surfers looking for clean, simplified and fast browsing. A basic interface and feature set includes better drag-and-drop tab management, darkening the whole webpage while highlighting the find-in-page item, private browsing which removes browsing session traces, and form fields resizing by dragging. The previous version of Safari on Windows was inferior to Safari on Mac. Safari 3.1's improved Windows version works 'more like a real Windows application.' The speed of the 3.1 browser seems 'fairly quick.' Common as well as cutting-edge standards are supported, for example, HTML 5 specs with new embedded video elements. Safari scored second best behind WebKit, which builds every 24 hours, on the Web Standards Project's Acid3 test, ahead of all other current shipping and beta browsers. Safari's speed and standards support capabilities are actually based on WebKit's open-source framework. Adobe's AIR application also uses WebKit. However, Safari 3.1's speed and simplicity sacrifices extended capabilities. The Firefox browser, for example, offers many features added through extended functionality. But, if the user just needs fast and simple, Safari 3.1 is probably the best option.
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