I agree with Wolfie to a degree. As an activity indicator it serves a function but as a progress indicator it's effectively useless since the program actually has no way at any given point to accurately estimate what percentage of the page is loaded. It actually serves no more useful function that the old 'throbber' in the URL bar and I never really saw why people seem to prefer it - it gives you the illusion of information, not actual information. I suppose people prefer to be told something than nothing, even when what they're being told is rubbish.

Jon

Of course, being so new means that my internet banking doesn't work any more with Safari.