Safari 3 (Beta)
Apple have released Safari 3 (beta) for Windows. Up until today it’s been a Mac OS X only web browser. You can download it from Apple’s US website. But I have to ask myself why would you bother? It doesn’t have all the great extensions of Firefox. And it STILL doesn’t support the beta version of Yahoo! mail. (Which is funny, because they have a great picture of Yahoo! on the main download page). On the Mac the new version does feel a bit quicker, but on Windows it didn’t feel much nippier at all, and even a hefty speed bump wouldn’t make me switch from Firefox on windows, when you lose so many features.
My bookmarks were automatically imported from Firefox and IE on Windows, but I didn’t realise it had done that as the bookmark bar in firefox didn’t overwrite Safari’s. All the firefox shortcuts were in a “Mozilla Firefox” folder. It all seems a bit of a waste of time. Particularly when there’s more than a few bugs still in Leopard that those developers could have been sorting out instead.
This post comes to you from a Safari browser on a Mac. Don’t you just love irony.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Didn’t know you could blog in tongues, H!
*i.e. I don’t understand a single word of this post….apart from…”and”
June 14th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I was going to post from Safari on Windows running through Parallels on my Mac…but it hardly seems worthwhile as I love Firefox extensions, it seems a bit buggy (but it’s a beta - I do wish buggy public beta releases would stop but then I would have so little to blog about) and the first point release is already out fixing security issues.
It also means that web developers have another browser in another platform to code against. Bless.