Safari - A worthy browser, with a tiny glitch

There are few reasons why I never give up my Safari browser:

Number 1, because its slick and sexy. The design of Safari is very much Apple, and it does help to neutralize the look of my "not so beautiful" desktop.

Number 2, its launching time is fast, much faster than Firefox, and in the same pace as Chrome.

Number 3, it has the beautiful and extremely useful feature called "Top Sites", which others are trying so hard to imitate, but fail. "Top Sites" displays all your favourite websites clearly and beautifully in the form of thumbnails, on your new tab, allowing you to simply and launch the site. Besides that, you also get to view your bookmarks and browsing history in Cover flow, the Apple signature 3D file browsing experience.

Number 4, Safari comes with the handy feature known as "Reading List". You can add pages that you haven't finish reading into this list, and continue reading it later. To use this feature, just click on the icon that look like a pair of spectacles, and choose "Add Page."

Number 5, if you are a heavy reader, and prefer a distraction free reading experience, Safari has something for you. The feature known as "Reader" can be activated when you are reading an article in a website, and would like to read it without the distraction of advertisements and pop-ups. Just click on the "Reader" button at the right side of your URL bar, on Safari will filter all the physical distractions in that webpage, leaving you a clean page with only words and the necessary picture. You can also turn it off when you have done reading. Though other third party extension developers try hard to copy it, they fail to produce something as beautiful as this.

However, there's a minor but irritating glitch that stop me from giving this browser a high recommendation, it doesn't support essential two fingers scrolling gestures on Windows based laptops with multi-touch gestures enabled. This is very annoying when I use two fingers on my Asus A43S's track pad to scroll down the web page. Well, I can't! How pathetic is that when you can't even perform a simple scroll down gesture on a web browser that is from a company well known of its multi-touch gestures patent technology!? And even the pinch to zoom gesture feels kind of choppy on Safari. (well, if you don't mind, a wired or wireless mouse works quite well on Safari, letting you scroll smoothly with your scroll wheel)

Verdict: Safari is the browser for you if you are a heavy reader and would want a browser with beautiful and fluid design. However, if you rely heavily on your laptop's trackpad and don't like the idea of bringing along your mouse, just forget about this browser.