I installed it at home first and immediately though something was wrong because the tabs were no longer using the top bar of the window but had returned to their original position just above the web window. Yes Safari has gone back to it's original behaviour in that aspect which is a shame as i had got used to the tabs being up there though it was not without problems. Other than that the other visual changes are minor.
More interestingly perhaps Safari 4 is the first non-beta browser to pass the Acid3 test. Its also lauded by Apple as the "fastest web browser", it certainly seems fast in my limited testing but i've only compared it on my work PC to Firefox and IE6. Speed will depend a lot on your computer's set-up. Safari likes memory, so much so it likes to gorge itself. Currently with just a blog edit window and the Apple site open in tabs Safari is using 121MB of RAM on my PC though Firefox is hardly lightweight either. On my Mac Safari did seem slow at first but that may have been first-run background processes whirring away, it soon was rendering webpages very quickly indeed. Noticably quicker than the public beta.
Safari 4 is well worth a try, what i enjoy most about the way is the beautiful way it renders font smoothing which gives Safari a very "comforting" feel on a PC however up until now the disadvantages otherwise of using it on a PC have outweighed that but maybe version 4.0 is the one to change that. On a Mac its a no-brainer as far as i am concerned, Firefox who?
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