12 June 2007

Safari is on Windows now!


Apple has released the new Safari 3 Public Beta which can work on Windows XP or Vista. It's the first time that Safari works with Windows. Is this related to the meeting between Bill and Jobs :-)?

According to Apple, there are 12 reasons you'll love Safari:
  1. Blazing performance (Apple said Safari is twice as fast as IE7, don't know whether its' true or not, at least I didn't feel it)
  2. Elegant user interface (It does look good. Apple is good at it, isn't it?)
  3. Easy bookmarks (not that special, I think)
  4. Pop-up blocking (everyone does this)
  5. Inline find (very handy feature, even better than Firefox, much much better than IE7)
  6. Tabbed Browsing (both Firefox and IE7 do it)
  7. SnapBack (could be useful)
  8. Forms AutoFill (others do as well)
  9. Built-in RSS (others do as well)
  10. Resizable text fields (could be handy)
  11. Private browsing (I won't care this too much, but some people do)
  12. Security (hard to say)
What's my experience with Safari so far?
  • Feels like working in an iTunes (I'm not a Mac person at all)
  • It works fine on my office computer which runs Windows XP
  • Not very well on my home computer which runs Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, every time I maximum the window, it disappears.
  • Overall, nice try. But I won't use it as my main browser, still prefer Firefox 2 70% of the time, and IE7 for the rest 30%
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