Comments on: Review: Safari Beta for Windows

By: ikshayar

ikshayar — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:52:06 +0000

People are talking a lot out of nothing. for me.. I never made it to run on windows XP.

By: defragmybrain

defragmybrain — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:42:59 +0000

ever tried Flock? Look it up or on my blog.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:42:55 +0000

… I’m using a mac, using safari to type this, the windows version has a few bugs, true, many bugs, but these are mac coders trying to work on something very different from what they’re used to.
mac mainstream by the way?
sure, 90% of the worlds idiots use windows…
majority = mainstream….
mainstream is supposedly another word for shit.
Proud to be different. sure, macs arent perfect, neither is windows.

go away windows fanboys, go wank off over your pc boxes, I’ll stick with my mac.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:56:23 +0000

Has some serious issue starting in my up to date Win XP. Tried several times.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:29:13 +0000

Safari works foie on my computer. I have no problems with version 3.0.4

By: Stevedoinggreatjob

Stevedoinggreatjob — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:08:07 +0000

Safari for Windows Vista is the fastest browser I have ever used, it was a bit tricky to set a few things up but not complex at all. The only problem I have with Safari is the problems you will have with the “Autofill”, it should use something other than the address card for storage of passwords and names to work right. For example a lot of sites if you login to that site and then logout and then hit login again most of the time you will have problems with it not autofilling at least on sites that I go to. The solution for that in my case was just to not logout even though I don’t like that. If anybody knows of any toolbars that are available right now that have autofill that will work with this Safari Beta for Xp/Vista please post them here. Also this beta version of safari if you go to edit/preferences/autofill for some reason even though I have checked user names and passwords it will not let me use the edit icon, same for other forms…..

Anyway this is a great browser with more potential than I have seen in a long time mainly because of it’s speed.

StevedoinganokJob

By: JOG

JOG — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:53:10 +0000

Now running safari beta 3.0.2 version over windows vista. Major changes and much better functioning with only few errors in some pages from 3.0.1 version and also very very quick navigation.
I just make allmost all my internet navigation with safari, reserving firefox or IE por the few cases safari gives error.
I have the impression we’ll have a real alternative to IE or Fi

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:37:43 +0000

I’m using Safari for windows now, and it is working just fine. I actually like the font so many complain about……. It seems solid, not cheap like other browsers.

I myself am an avid firefox user, but safari is catching my attention long enough to try this out for a few weeks to get a feel for it.

That…. and who can argue with Apple’s Interface

By: elthe

elthe — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:12:50 +0000

1. It is slow. Dreadfully slow during resizing and moving around.
2. In a drop-down list you cannot write your choice and be brought to it.
3. You cannot resize grabbing any other edge than the bottom right corner.
4. You cannot close a tab middle-clicking on it.
5. It doesnt automagically resolve adresses via google. e.g. if you write “nasa” in the address bar it doesnt get you to “nasa.gov”
6. There are interface annoyances: when maximized you cannot left-click top right corner of the screen and close it, it closes the app behind the safari instead. you cannot move your mouse to the extreme right edge of the screen with maximized browser and scroll – you have to carefully aim for the scroll bar.
7. In a multi-monitor setup, if maximize it on a secondary monitor it goes nut. It goes somewhere outside the screen and you have to move it with keyboard for you cannot click it.
8. You must be cautious not to install itunes, quicktime and some other garbage with it.

I tested Safari on a Windows 2003 Server 2GHz Athlon with 2GB of RAM. If you wish to discuss my comments feel free: dubbing@interia.pl elthe

By: Nate Great

Nate Great — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:38:42 +0000

Lol, that’s awesome! Okay, so maybe not so awesome if you were expecting it to work, and it probably should have. On the other hand I’ve downloaded it and it’s been working fine for me. I’ve even run a few test on my own and it is definitely a lot faster that IE in terms of DOM manipulation and rendering. IE is bad news for the most part in this area although it may have improved in IE 7 which I have not been able to test yet.

Personally I hope that either IE 7 gets it’s butt in gear and improves its DOM implementation or that either Firefox or Safari take off. It would make my job a lot easier, simply because as is to get the performance out of IE I need I have to write a lot of extra code (even for some IE 7 related projects).

Anyway, I really hope they work the bugs out because it’s obvious they have a better core implementation of DOM (at least a faster one). They just need to improve on it so it has all the features us users want and not silly, ridiculous problems like this!