Apple has released the first public beta of Safari 4. This browser has some very notable new features. First, a very Chrome-like treatment of tabs, that is, above the location bar. Second, the integration of Cover Flow with your bookmarks and history. Third, and finally, some notable speed improvements. I’m actually typing this up in Safari 4 now, and it’s pretty good so far. The only problems I have with it now are the lack of 1Password support (which is very important to me), and some minor annoyances with the handling of tabs. It might be that I’m too comfortable with the Firefox way of handling tabs, but I think Chrome does a very similar but slightly better job with the tabs. The windows version of Safari 4 is also much more windows like than the previous version, which did look like a clone of the mac version. The beta is available to download now.

Update: 1Password does work with Safari if you enable the beta releases in 1Password.