So, I tried using Safari again and it is still lacking in so many areas. To start with, most of the functionality one has come to expect over the years from Firefox is lacking in Safari. You can regain some of it if you want to spend $20, $30, $50 or more in multiple third party applications. Or you can get the same functionality (usually done better) with free extensions in Firefox.

There doesn't seem to be any delicious plugin that integrates with the browser the way that the official Yahoo! delicious extension in Firefox does. Getting adblock plus to work with it isn't that hard, but it does a poor job compared to the Firefox version. For example, a banner area that would be entirely removed on Firefox shows up as a big empty space in Safari. Rather than reclaiming the space, Safari just blanked out the content that was inside.

The only thing Safari offers over Thunderbird is a webclip ability to let you display content from a web page in the OSX Dashboard.

I really would love to use the default mail and browser clients that Apple offers, but both are unfortunately so lacking in functionality -- even after spending a lot of money on third party applications to round-out the default applications -- that they really aren't sufficient for any purpose other than use by the most basic, non-demanding user.

Why is this listing still being updated now that Safari 3 is out of beta?
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/safari

Sorry, scratch that last comment. I had a plugin screwing things up.

The current version pages down every time I hit space, even when a text field is focused. This makes the browser nigh-unusable. Not sure what browser to use now.

Safari, you've finally come of age.
I was a hardcore Camino user for the past couple of years because the version of Safari/WebKit that shipped with Tiger really sucked. But the page rendering and compatibility in Safari 3.0.x has improved by leaps and bounds, and the way you can drag tabs to reorder them or even drag them between windows is really nice. It sometimes stops interpreting my middle-clicks as "open link in new tab", but other than that it's pretty good. I haven't noticed any serious memory leaks so far.

Camino's going to have to play catch-up now. I still keep it on reserve for complicated Ajax sites like Google pages, but Safari has reclaimed its place as my primary browser.

I have to use Safari cuz Firefox's prestanda on mac sucks (at least on a macbook), maybe it will become better after I've upgraded the RAM, but I think I'm already very happy with Safari, with Inquisistor it can compete with FF

I've been using it since it came out and it's been running great. Love the new features too! :)

Worth the download for better handling with tabs. Not the flashing "new window stuff" but the fact that it now won't freeze up on older machines when you have more than two tabs open.

Noticeably faster than "standard" 2.0.4 version, however it also breaks too many widgets to be useful .

To uninstall: the .dmg file you downloaded to install safari3beta also contains a safari3uninstaller.pkg
Just run that to revert back to the stable 2.0.4 release you had before.

With 11 widgets and the Debug menu on (turned on with Safari Enhancer 3.3.1) I haven't had any problems in 5-6 hours of use on 3 different macs.