PRESS RELEASE 20 January 2003

Apple’s Safari Browser Downloads Top One Million

CUPERTINO, California - January 20th, 2003
Apple today announced that more than a million copies of its new Safari Web browser have been downloaded since the free public beta was posted on Apple’s Web site on January the 7th.
“Safari is a huge success, with over a million downloads in less than two weeks”, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Mac users have discovered that Safari beta release is already the fastest browser on the Mac and possibly the best browser in the world”.
Safari is the fastest browser ever created for the Mac, and one of the most innovative and easiest-to-use browsers on any platform. Safari’s highly-tuned rendering engine loads pages over three times faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the Mac and runs Javascript over twice as fast. Safari’s innovative features include Google search capabilities integrated directly into the toolbar; ‘SnapBack’, a new way to instantly snap back up to search results or the top level of any Web site after browsing down one or more levels; a completely new way to name, organise and present bookmarks; and automatic pop-up ad blocking.
The Safari public beta is available as a free download at www.apple.com/ie/safari, requires Mac OS X version 10.2 and is optimised for Mac OS X v10.2.3. Safari is a compact 3MB download that occupies only 7.1MB of hard drive space. The final version of Safari will be made available later in 2003.
Mac OS X v10.2 requires a minimum of 128MB of memory and is designed to run on the following Apple products: eMac, iMac, iBook, Power Macintosh G3, Power Mac G4 and any PowerBook introduced after May 1998.
 
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