Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Safari 3 final

I got Leopard today at a sweet student discount from the Carnegie Mellon student book/computer store. But that’s going to be an entirely different story, as I’ll hold off installing it for the Thanksgiving break when, unlike today, I wouldn’t have any crazy homeworks or papers or things due the very next day and the risk would be smaller.

Meanwhile, Apple has apparently released an update to Tiger, 10.4.11, that among other things installs Safari 3 that is now apparently out of beta. One immediate change with it for me is that Google Reader layout no longer sucks, and Google Reader is much faster with Safari than with Firefox for me. So I can start using Reader mostly with Safari now. Except when I need some advanced features like offline syncing that requires Google Rails that’s apparently currently only supported on Firefox.

The other nice thing that Safari 3 has is a much better in-page text search. Although it still can’t search inside content of text areas or form fields. I think it should.