Apple’s Safari browser has just been made available for Windows, although it’s still in beta. This caught me totally by surprise, but it seems there have been rumours going around for a bit now. Even if I had of seen the rumors I wouldn’t have believed it! Here’s some screenshots of it in action:
The download weighs in at just over 8Mb. It seems to run a little sluggishly for me, and I’ve a Intel Core 2 Duo 7600 with 4Gb of RAM. Some of the usual plug-ins are available including Java and Flash.
It can be zippity in some pages, but in the age of broadband, who cares?
*Ugly theme/buttons
*Ugly window buttons (minimize/maximize/restore/close)
*Clicking taskbar does not minimize it
*”You haven’t entered anything in Google box” Geez, maybe I just wanted to intuitively go to Google.com
*”great” Apple UI everywhere, for example, windows only resizable via bottom right.
*Click on a .wmv, it opens in WMP. In IE7 or FF, they give choice to download or open, and FF even lets me pref to automatically download
*Lack of favicons in bookmarks bar
*RSS button unstandard. IE and FF have come to truce with this
*no autoscroll
*middle click doesn’t close tabs, open tabs from bookmarks bar
*No “recently closed tabs”
*no status bar by default
*no inline spell check
*no double click tab bar to get new tab
*crashed twice already, FF crashes maybe once a week
*no adblocking
*no “google/yahoo search suggest”
*backspace doesn’t go back
*edit bookmarks name/address separately, huh?
You’ve got a lot of good points there John and I don’t see myself moving away from Firefox to Safari anytime soon. It just doesn’t have half the featues I take for granted in Firefox nowadays.
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J
I have posted some more screenshots. It seems quite good for a beta product.
I don’t like the apple UI widgets. Imagine if Microsoft has released IE5 for the Mac with a grey windows 2000 theme?
I think I’ll stick with Firefox for the time being.
Hi Marc,
Some good shots there! When I use XP, I actually run in “Classic” mode, but the menu’s don’t look any better under the default XP style! It doesn’t come close to Firefox in my opinion.
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J
really Safari is a cool browser,
it works very softly on low configuration PC though not recommended.