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The company also claims that the new Safari runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences.

Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller said, "Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface. And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience."

Safari features an intuitive browsing experience with drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organise tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information, says Apple.

Safari 3.1 is also the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. The browser also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create new websites.

Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/au/safa ri for both Mac OS X and Windows users.