Lost amongst the WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4 announcements yesterday was Apple’s release of Safari 5. This updated version of Apple’s web browser features the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field.

It was announced this week at WWDC that Safari 4 is out of beta and ready for the masses. Soon after, Appletell was able to get a first look up about the performance of Safari 4. Now, Apple is stating that there have been more that 11 million downloads of Safari 4 in the first three days since its release. More than half of these (6 million) have been for Windows, which is quite interesting, if you ask me.

On Tuesday, I released a list of the 8 principal things wrong with the Safari 4 interface from a usability standpoint. Today, I’m going to outline six fixes that would make me love Safari 4, and that I feel solve all the issues.

With Safari 4, Apple apparently got over its “let’s bring Mac OS X style windows into a Windows environment” mentality, and has done a really great job making Safari 4 fit in with the environment in which it is installed. Oddly enough, it seems as though they designed the new Safari 4 interface for Windows, and then applied the exact same design to the Mac version. What you see above is the Fail Diagram, explained below. Most are more design complaints than things that may actually cause a large usability issue, but they are things that a design-oriented company such as Apple should have noted. Feel free to check things out for yourself with your own copy of Safari 4.

Today, Apple have updated their web browser Safari to version 4. It’s currently in beta testing stages, but is available to the public to download. On the face of it, Safari 4 looks brilliant. A full update that we’ve been waiting for is delivered with some new and interesting features.

I have been using Safari for Windows at work since it was released in 2007. I have tried to be patient with it, because I know Apple, except for iTunes, is not in the business of making applications for Windows. With the most recent release 3.2.1 in November of last year, I have not seen much improvement from the first version.

Reports of a new security issue in both the Mac and Windows versions of Safari are stating that there is a “hole” in how Safari handles RSS feeds, which could potentially allow an attacker to capture a user’s personal information, cookies, passwords, etc. through a malicious web page. The discovery of this new vulnerability can be credited to Brain Mastenbrook, who is known for discovering many previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.

We live in a topsy-turvy world. The very pillars of capitalism are shaking, shadowy wars grip the world, and now Apple has pulled out of Macworld Expo. So now, more than ever, it’s good to know that there are a handful of things on which we can always rely: Internet Explorer has a critical security flaw, and users are being advised to switch to another browser until it’s patched. Or, if they simply want to use the web without hating themselves and all life.

The BBC reports…

Apple has just released a fix for a very serious Windows Safari security flaw, which was addressed by Microsoft a short while ago, and allowed the download of malicious software without warning the victim. The patch updated Safari so it would first seek permission from a user before downloading an application from a website to more »

According to NetApplications, Mac OS X and Safari are continuing their upward climb on the market share ladder. In May, Mac OS X saw a 0.45% climb in market share to 7.83%, with Safari seeing an 0.44% jump to 6.25%. Safari for Windows has been growing quite a bit in past months, but it’s a more »