Apple launched
a beta version for Safari 3 for both Mac and Windows XP/Vista. Apple claims that Safari is "the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world" and that it loads pages two times faster than Internet Explorer. Because Safari has a Mac interface it's hard to argue that the browser is easy to use for a Windows user. This beta version is not very stable, so you may experience frequent crashes.
For a browser that claims to be
the most innovative in the world, Safari doesn't bring too many new features: private browsing that lets you pause the web history, resizable text fields, clever inline find, progress bar included in the address field.
I also don't understand how a company that promotes elegance and simplicity tries to install QuickTime with all their software and bundles Bonjour, a service that detects shared devices on your local network, with a browser.
But the most important thing is that web developers can test their sites in Safari without buying a Mac or using a service like
Browsrcamp and more sites will support Safari.
> But the most important thing
> is that web developers can
> test their sites in Safari
> without buying a Mac or using
> a service like Browsrcamp
Unfortunately not, as the rendering of Mac Safari differs from the Win Safari version. (I used BrowserPool.de to check.)
I saw this too, and didn't think that there were many "groundbreaking features" - the Private Browsing is nice, and aside from that, the only "big" feature that Firefox doesn't have (though it's easily added with the All-in-One Gestures extension) is the duplicate window feature.
I might just try it out one day or another, and I have to agree that it was somewhat sneaky of them to put in the "Download Safari + Quicktime" option as the default.
Sephyroth
http://sephyroth.blogspot.com/
It seemed weird at first as I use Macs and PCs but never, ever IE.
I like it so far - is this please oh please a step closer to G OS???
www.idoseo.com
Jyvyn said on June 11, 2007 5:01 PM PDT:
I'll stick to browsershots.org for my website testing.
If this browser wants to have a viable chance at taking some of the PC industry, it needs to offer either more features or an extensibility platform. I'm assuming that since they're calling it a beta, it's feature complete. That's not a good thing for Apple.
Emexci said on June 11, 2007 5:39 PM PDT:
it's a good news for me. because i want self testing the browser compatibility..
thank's for up this news.
get
rid
of
font smoothing
Arggggggh! terrible looking
Kenneth said on June 12, 2007 4:15 AM PDT:
itunes runtime error, after installing...!!!
tom said on June 12, 2007 6:53 AM PDT:
will the in-browser google talk chat function work in safari? or do we have to use firefox??
Hans said on June 12, 2007 9:16 AM PDT:
Thanks for the info and thanks to Philipp Lenssen for dropping the link of that amazing service, BrowserPool.de.
I was looking for something like that from a long time to test my designs.
Chris said on June 12, 2007 2:04 PM PDT:
Full ack.
said on June 13, 2007 12:24 PM PDT:
This is so stupid. I guarantee that browser is a piece of junk, just like everything else Apple. Get over the hype noobs, its gonna suck.
I downloaded this today and I had huge problems. It was more like an alpha rather than a beta.
I got no text available, I couldn't type in URL's and when I clicked on the button of a bug (supposedly a bug report link) it almost crashed my computer.
I think they have just a little more work to do.
Justin said on June 14, 2007 11:09 AM PDT:
I had all my dislikes voiced out at my
blog. I'm lazy to have to type them here again.
said on June 16, 2007 12:33 AM PDT:
This beta version is not very stable, so you may experience frequent crashes.Oh no, these aren't problems with Safari. Safari is made by Apple and hence is perfect. The crashes are caused by Microsoft and its inadequate Windows operating system... ;)
Alexander said on June 18, 2007 11:25 AM PDT:
I can't get Safari to work on WIndows XP SP2. It just crashes. I havewn't been able to find a solution to this. It seems that it starts up for some and just crashes for others. I can't evaluate something that doesn't even work except to say that it's crap. Even a Beta should at least start up and do the most fundamental functions...
said on April 8, 2008 7:37 PM PDT:
It sucks bigtime - I installed it and now poof - no more gmail. I uninstalled it and still gmailess..... $*@^#(@^^!@%!*&
Does anyone know how to get out of this horrible mess???
