Apple Safari

[gcy]

has anybody tried it. lot of reports of security bugs. wonder if apple will provide fixes.
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[luminousmidnight]

Do you really wonder if a beta product will get some fixes to it?

 

[gcy]

what I was wondering was, since it's running on windows if apple would actively develop safari .

 

[HermDogg]

I've downloaded the beta, and it seems fast. There's a lot of complaints about memory hogging and such, but I've only got a gig of RAM and I haven't noticed it hogging away from anything else. It's surprisingly fast, but right now I'm sticking with Firefox + adblock for my daily browsing. I'm using Safari at work when I'm just looking stuff up since it's much faster, and will use it as my second browser instead of IE at home.

 

[luminousmidnight]

Originally posted by: gcy
what I was wondering was, since it's running on windows if apple would actively develop safari .

Of course. Safari 3.0 will be released with Leopard in October, and will be available to both Windows and Mac users.

 

[ProviaFan]

I've used it a bit, but not seriously enough to notice any of the bugs.

 

[Dacalo]

Forward and back buttons on mouse don't work.

 

[gcy]

while checking if safari was available for linux, I was surprised to find out that safari is based on kde konqueror.
"for its Web page rendering engine, Safari draws on software from the Konqueror open source project. Weighing in at less than one tenth the size of another open source renderer, Konqueror helps Safari stay lean and responsive"

 

[Kaido]

Big thread already over in the Windows software forum:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2058966&enterthread=y

I've used it. It is the fastest browser I've tried, but Firefox is already fairly fast. And you can't beat Firefox + AdBlock, like HermDogg said. I don't really understand what the point of bringing Safari to Windows is. Firefox has such a huge community behind it, especially in the development area.

 

[chcarnage]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I don't really understand what the point of bringing Safari to Windows is.

I think that Apple's main intention for porting Safari is to provide an environment where programs behave exactly like on the iPhone. Other benefits are possible but only of secondary importance. Maybe a few web developers will pay a bit more attention to compliance with KHTML-engine based browsers, but that's about it.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: chcarnage

Originally posted by: Kaido
I don't really understand what the point of bringing Safari to Windows is.

I think that Apple's main intention for porting Safari is to provide an environment where programs behave exactly like on the iPhone. Other benefits are possible but only of secondary importance. Maybe a few web developers will pay a bit more attention to compliance with KHTML-engine based browsers, but that's about it.

carnage is probably right, that answer makes the most sense. I have also heard that if they can get it and iTunes on Windows polished enough, then more people with use them and say "Gosh, this is pretty good on Windows, I wonder how much better it is on Mac, or how many more things like this are on the Mac" and then go buy a Mac.

I think the developer environment one is more plausible though.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: chcarnage

Originally posted by: Kaido
I don't really understand what the point of bringing Safari to Windows is.

I think that Apple's main intention for porting Safari is to provide an environment where programs behave exactly like on the iPhone. Other benefits are possible but only of secondary importance. Maybe a few web developers will pay a bit more attention to compliance with KHTML-engine based browsers, but that's about it.

carnage is probably right, that answer makes the most sense. I have also heard that if they can get it and iTunes on Windows polished enough, then more people with use them and say "Gosh, this is pretty good on Windows, I wonder how much better it is on Mac, or how many more things like this are on the Mac" and then go buy a Mac.

I think the developer environment one is more plausible though.

The iPhone explanation makes the most sense so far, good point.

 

[gcy]

I tried it and it loads very slowly. I wondered if sygate slows it down.

just checked, shut down sysgate still very slow loading.

 

[bigrash]

Safari 3.01 update: link

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Big thread already over in the Windows software forum:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2058966&enterthread=y

I've used it. It is the fastest browser I've tried, but Firefox is already fairly fast. And you can't beat Firefox + AdBlock, like HermDogg said. I don't really understand what the point of bringing Safari to Windows is. Firefox has such a huge community behind it, especially in the development area.

Opera is faster and doesn't have security issues.
If you want a firefox alternative/superior, it already exists.

 

[Centauri]

I'm more than a little disappointed in the beta.

My PC is an Athlon XP 1.8GHz 2200+ with a GB of RAM, a GeForce 6200 128MB and a fresh install of XP with plenty of disk space.

Safari's UI is *incredibly* sludgy. Minimizing, window resizing, scrolling... they all suck.

Page renders look great though.