Safari For Windows Xp

[nikster]

Want to try an alternative to Firefox? Still using IE7?

Get it here:

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

I am using it right now. Weirdly, it's way faster than on OS X. Certainly seems faster, UI-wise, than Firefox. I am on a fast internet connection right now so don't know about how it deals with very slow networks.

So far, Safari on Windows XP is blazingly fast, and very pretty. And it auto-imported all bookmarks but didn't tell me about that, they just showed up in sub-folders called "Imported Netscape/Mozilla Favorites"

[pumper]

it crashed every time I did anything.

add the home page button to the menu bar & it crashed

auto fill is apparently default .. I could not type in a url without safari interfering .. I HATE auto fill no mater whose implementation it is.

also seriously changed page formatting from FF or IE

I have such a 'personal problem' with 'microsoft in general' i'd like to change to a mac.

[bkkmick]

Yea, that autofil's pretty horrendous. I agree it is fast but (to me) that is one ugly browser. And when you flick between applications it resizes itself from maximised. Horrible ads across the tool bar but I guess if I played around with it (which I won't) you can probably get rid of those. I'll stick to IE7, suits me.

[sjaak327]

To be honest, I prefer firefox on mac OSX, so I don't think I'm going for safari on Vista/XP, in fact there are plenty of web apps that don't work well with safari.

[Florin]

I really like it so far...very snappy, with some nice default features like "Save to Desktop" when you right-click on a picture, web apps like Kasikorn CyberBanking seem to be fine...I could definitely get used to this! The one missing feature (hopefully adressable with a future plugin) is FlashGet download integration.

Oh yeah, and try Ctrl+F and see how they implemented it...VERY Spotlight-ish, a welcome thing in Windows

[Phil Conners]

Thanks but no thanks. Tried Itunes and Quicktime, that was enough Apple software for me, yuk!

[Thaising]

Safari for Windows: Released and Hacked in a Day

Just hours after Apple released its first Windows beta of Safari researcher Aviv Raff said he'd found a bug.

Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the US$10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.

Just hours after Apple released its first Windows beta of Safari researcher Aviv Raff said he'd found a bug.

In an interview, Raff said that it took about three minutes of fuzzing to find the bug and that he hadn't tested the issue on Mac OS X. So he couldn't say whether or not it affected Safari on Windows only. The bug causes the browser to crash and "might be exploitable," according to Raff, meaning it could possibly be used to run malware on the PC.

Raff was clearly unhappy with Apple's claim that Safari was designed to be "secure from day one" (he called this claim "pathetic") but he said he wasn't particularly going after Apple. "I don't pick just on Apple," he said. "I've posted about Microsoft and Mozilla issues too."

"Everyone has bugs, but not everyone say that they are 'designed to be secured from day one,'" he added. "I guess it's day zero now."

IDG News Service

I will stick with FF and need not worry that it will crash.

[Guest Reimar]

Funny for me that no one mention that the Safari for MS Windows is just a Beta 3!! Or Is a Beta 3 by Apple like a final by MS? Who think this must be an real Apple Freak and will never accept that other systems may can be better!