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As we're all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari?


The Safari feature most-touted by Steve Jobs at the WWDC keynote was its speed, claiming Safari beats out Internet Explorer and Firefox at rendering web pages. According to Wired, however, that's not necessarily the case. To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move to Safari (why would we do that?), here's a list of Safari's best features and the Firefox extensions that bring them to our favorite browser.




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The only feature of Safari's that I really liked but was unable to find a strong Firefox replacement for was Safari's new inline search highlighting, which really is incredible. In comparison I'd call Firefox's default inline search highlighting tool pretty good. Luckily Firefox also has several more inline search options that Safari is completely missing, so Firefox still wins out in the end.

If you've got a killer Safari feature that you want to defend (or one that you want to find a Firefox replacement for), let's hear it in the comments.