Apple released Safari 4 at WWDC this year, with many improvements for the Windows build.  Being that Safari is WebKit, it runs and acts much the same as Google Chrome.  I enjoy Chrome, but it does not support the new features in Windows 7 – most notably the display of tabs in the taskbar.  Before Safari 4, Internet Explorer 8 was the only browser to support this feature.

To check out this awesome feature, download a copy of Safari 4 and open a window with several tabs.  Upon hovering over the taskbar button, the preview should display the contents of each tab.

That’s a single instance of Safari – both tabs are easily seen.  Unfortunately, Aero Peek is not properly implemented, and the window will appear black when attempting to preview a tab which is not in-focus within Safari.

I am, of course, ecstatic that third parties are finally picking up on Windows 7 features.  Hopefully this will increase even more as Windows 7 moves into RTM and then general availability on Oct 22, 2009.

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