John Hesch

Apple has a new website, looks a lot like iTunes on the web. Pretty cool. I also noticed that the Safari browser, formally only available to MAC users, now comes in a Microsoft version.

1. Blazing Performance – 2x Faster – Safari is the fastest web browser on any platform.
2. Elegant User Interface – Safari’s clean look lets you focus on the web — not your browser.
3. Easy Bookmarks – Organize your bookmarks just like you organize music in iTunes.
4. Pop-up Blocking – Say goodbye to annoying pop-up ads and pop-under windows.
5. Inline Find – Search any text on any website with the integrated Find banner.
6. Tabbed Browsing – Open and switch between multiple web pages in a single window.
7. Snapback – Instantly snap back to search results or the top level of a website.
8. Forms AutoFill – Let Safari complete online forms for you, automatically and securely.
9. Built-in RSS – RSS tells you when new content is added to your favorite sites.
10. Resizable Text Fields – Resize text fields on any website: Just grab the corner and drag.
11. Private Browsing – Keep your online activities private with a single click.
12. Security – Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.

All major browsers change the color of links users have visited. With some JavaScript, a web site can view the colors of the links in a users browser history and determine if they have visited a site. A web site can’t pull a list of sites the user has visited from their browser, but they can test a predefined list of URL’s to see if they have visited any of them.

Spyjax makes it super easy for web sites to spy on their visitors. With Ajax, thousands of links can be tested against a visitors browser history to determine which web sites have been visited.

Luckily, if you’re a Firefox user, there is SafeHistory. A Firefox add-on that restricts the marking of visited links on the basis of the originating document, defending against web privacy attacks that remote sites can use to determine your browser history at other sites.