Apple Safari Browser for the PC!

[Scott Greczkowski]

Check this out...

Just released minutes ago...

Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta - Download

Apples Safari browser is now available for the PC. Its supposed to be much faster than IE and Firefox!

I am downloading it now.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Wow just installed it, and yes it is FAST! WOW.

I don't care to much for the fonts though, they are kind of fuzzy. But the speed is really really fast.

 

[chunchma]

cool, thx. just downloaded it myself.

 

[RandallA]

Installed and testing it. I need to change the fonts too. So far so good.

 

[Hall]

The CPU requirements are a good indication that it's "light-weight":

500Mhz Pentium-class processor or better

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

So far it has ran really well for me. Although one site I went to noticed I was using Safari and wanted to send me a .sit plugin to use their site.

Unfortunately Safari didn't know what to do with the .sit file.

 

[digiblur]

Nice... does it do tabbed browsing?

No adblock plugin yet, eh?

Found a couple of websites it didn't render correctly. Cosmetic stuff.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes on the tabbed browsing.

No adblock plugin that I know of.

 

[digiblur]

Yes on the tabbed browsing.

No adblock plugin that I know of.

Found the tabbed browsing. Fonts are kinda weird but maybe I could get used to them?

I still find Firefox to be better but Safari definitely knocks the socks off of IE.

 

[digiblur]

Yes on the tabbed browsing.

No adblock plugin that I know of.

The adblock is great for annoying 5 mile signatures on peoples messages(not this board). Plus some of the annoying animated avatars and graphics on several sites.

 

[digiblur]

Anyone figure out how to get the backspace key to "Go back"? I have a button on my mouse that hits the backspace.

EDIT: On SatGuys Classic mode it's missing the New Posts button at the top.

 

[BobaBird]

"Safari Web Browser has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Microsoft will be notified of the problem.

Got this twice when trying to launch the installed program. The second time was after I closed some applications. This is on an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz with 512MB RAM.

 

[charper1]

I got it as well. It needs some more custimization ability and font help.. Looks almost 95% like Opera. It is a bit faster than IE7, but not near as fast as Firefox on my machines. Seems it also ignores my default wheel scroll settings and applies its own default advancement count.

 

[BobaBird]

Did a Shutdown>Restart. Tried again with nothing else open. This time I got the grey line of the drop-down menu extending across the screen, with a shorter white line centered above it, then the "needs to close" error.

The only glitch during the Safari+QuickTime installation was a notification that I have an illegal character in my Start > A/V Players folder. It also put an icon on my desktop w/o giving me a chance to decline, but that's just an annoyance.

 

[vurbano]

No problems so far but I hate the fonts

 

[Hall]

I'm not sure what excuse Safari has for poor rendering of sites and other shortcomings. It's not like it's a new browser. Sure, it may be new to Windows but the rendering engine has been out for a number of years.

 

[Foxbat]

Since I use Firefox on the Mac, I'm not sure of the advantage of using Safari under Windows. The only reason I use Safari now is to subscribe to the RSS feeds of web sites since the RSS Screensaver on the Mac reads the Safari list. I'd love to post a video of this screensaver in action, but I don't think it would look very good using the Olympus.
(edit: see attached .zip)

I may have to try this, but it sounds like a good idea to wait for the next beta.

 

[Hall]

Not impressed at all with Safari....

 

[digiblur]

PC World - Safari for Windows: Released and Hacked in a Day

Looks someone already got to it

 

[cybok0]

I like the way it looks, not fuzzy, but it is no way faster than FF, also I like the Fonts.