Apple has launched a public beta of Safari 4, the latest update to its web browser for OS X and Windows. The new browser is fast, attractive, and to be honest, feels a lot like Google Chrome. Both browsers use the WebKit rendering engine, so for the most part if you can view a page in one browser it should render properly in the other (although the Safari 4 download page didn’t work properly in Google Chrome – I had to fire up Firefox in order for the download link to appear Update: It looks like the download page now works in Chrome). And now Safari also automatically generates thumbnail previews of the pages you visit more frequently, just as Google Chrome does.

