Safari on Windows: Pleased so far

12 Jul

Posted by Andy Brudtkuhl under General, Reviews

So I finally buckled down today to try Safari on Windows. After a discussion with a colleague about how Apple does everything better I thought I’d see if that was true in the browser world. Safari, although residing on my Vista machine, is till very Apple-like. It has the iTunes brushed metal look. The first thing I noticed was that it was FAST and that it renders differently than its rivals. It’s much faster than IE and Firefox, although it is a fresh install and I have a dozen extensions and plugins running on Firefox. It also has the familiar tabbed browsing interface. All in all it’s worth checking out.

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Tags: Apple, Safari, Windows, Browser, Web

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5 Responses

tj

July 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
1

Makes you want that Mac doesn’t it!! :)
Andy Brudtkuhl

July 12th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
2

If I didn’t have to sell my car to get one I’d definitely buy one :)
tj

July 16th, 2007 at 9:15 am
3

haah yes yes… that hits home
Avinash

July 30th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
4

I love almost everything about Safari for Windows, except these three things:

a). I badly miss tool tips in Safari.
b). After heavily using Firefox for 3+ yrs, I’ve become used to “Ctrl + Enter” command. Why doesn’t Safari support this?
c). Why won’t the pics show up when I save ‘em using the “Save Picture As” context menu option? :/ I’ve tried three or four times (.png) and the pics just won’t appear in the Windows Explorer. :S

(a) and (c) force me to return back to Firefox, SeaMonkey or Opera.
Andy Brudtkuhl

August 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
5

Interesting comments. I haven’t used it as a main browser so I’m not sure of the quirks.

One thing it lacks - extensions. I cannot live without my Firefox Web Developer Toolbar.