I installed Safari 3.1 a few hours ago and didn't really think much of it. Then I came upon an article that gave a rundown of the new features that Apple has packed into the new version. I went back to Safari and I'm very impressed at what Apple has done.

Have you ever done a search, clicked through a bunch of pages and not found what you were looking for? Instead of hitting the 'Back' button a few hundred times to get back to your original search results, Search Snapback resets the search with just a click. Very useful.

A feature I haven't heard too much about but am very eager to check out is extended support for CSS3 and downloadable web fonts!

But the big feature I'm most excited to see with 3.1 is the Web Inspector. I'll preface this by saying that I like Firefox but I really like Safari, but the reason I use Firefox over Safari everyday is because of Firebug. Its standard in my work and an invaluable tool that only is for Firefox. With that said I think I'm going to be switching to Safari full time very soon. Safari's Web Inspector takes Firefox's Firebug and improves it 10 fold. Browse/view images and a few other features stand out. The really nice part is the great UI though. Great. Wow. I really can't wait to start to use this.

With this update, I'll soon be making the switch to Safari for my primary browser. Sorry Firefox. Maybe IE8 will have a few surprises too...