Safari 7 review: Mavericks browser saves battery life, brings further refinements
The new OS X Mavericks seems to offer far better performance and power management—but its programs often pack fewer features and less-elegant interfaces. The same holds true on both counts for Safari 7. It’s as fast as its predecessor in rendering HTML, and far zippier with JavaScript, but the changes to its look and feel aren’t all improvements.
Surface imperfections
The first thing you’ll see when opening Safari 7 is the new Top Sites window. Dispensing with previous versions’ glossy curviness, the redesigned grid of frequently used pages loads much faster and offers ready access to your bookmarks, Reading List, and new Social Links.
The redesigned Top Sites page is one of Safari’s best interface changes.
The latter feature is nice but not essential. If you’ve tied your LinkedIn or Twitter account into your Mac’s System Preferences, posts from your friends or followees will show up here. But where’s Facebook? Did Apple think it’d be redundant, since Facebook updates are already available in the Notification Center?
The bookmarks and Reading List work well in the Top Sites window, but not necessarily as a sidebar when you’re browsing other pages. The button that once let you edit your entire bookmark list with ease now summons the sidebar. You can rearrange the order of your bookmarks, or right-click to edit them, but it’s not quite as convenient as it used to be, and it’s harder to see all the links in a longer list of bookmarks, at least on a laptop screen.
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