Safari for Windows [Archive]

leowyatt

12-06-2007, 10:30

This was launched yesterday and is available on a public beta (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/). I'd bet most of you probably aren't bothered, but from a devs view such as myself it's great I can finally test how our site looks and how it performs even though I'm stuck in Windows :)

Haly

12-06-2007, 12:25

I downloaded that last night and meant to post :)
I'm certainly going to give it a go, always willing to try different browsers.
And like you, it'll be handy to test sites!

Will

12-06-2007, 12:59

Oooh cool.

I still want a Mac though :( They're cool.

leowyatt

12-06-2007, 13:22

Oooh cool.

I still want a Mac though :( They're cool.

Get yourself a MacBook ;)

EDIT: well I have been using it all morning and can say I'm very happy with it. It has crashed a couple of times but that is to be expected with a beta copy. It might be down to this work's laptop which is buggered as it is.

Daz

12-06-2007, 15:13

Frequent crashing is an alpha build trade off, not beta :/

[edit] Heh, great minds think alike/simple minds seldom differ:

http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/12/safar_crashing_experience/

Seems it doesn't like being ran in anything other than US settings.

leowyatt

12-06-2007, 15:19

mine has crashed when I've had something with flash load it's just hung then Windows has informed me it needs to close Safari.

We have been problem free now ffor a while.

EDIT: anyone tried the text searching yet? Pretty cool, I really like the way you can see the results, makes things very clear.

EDIT2: turns out it's yahoo mail beta which is killing Safai and as I'm daft and clicked proceed when it's not compatible, it's my own fault ;D

Mohinder

12-06-2007, 15:59

I don't use Safari even on the Mac, it doesn't imo offer anything more than IE. It's alright, but I prefer Firefox.

Robert

12-06-2007, 16:01

I'm starting to hate FF :/

leowyatt

12-06-2007, 16:04

I don't use Safari even on the Mac, it doesn't imo offer anything more than IE. It's alright, but I prefer Firefox.

Well I use it most of the time as Firefox is Kitten's browser ;D I'm tempted to try a different one as I don't have tabs in the mac Safari but this IE version does :huh:

EDIT: turns out I'm a gonk, just need to download the beta :)

Rob - why you hating FF?

Robert

12-06-2007, 16:08

I dunno...no matter how many installs I've had I always get annoying niggles like it'll just say "stopped" in the bottom left then do nothing until I restart it. It has happened on every install/machine I've had. I've IE extension on now so should be ok.

leowyatt

12-06-2007, 16:09

give Safari a whirl ;)

Daz

12-06-2007, 16:17

If it's doze I'd go for a browser in stable release, Opera being the obvious contender (/waits for Alex).

Mark

12-06-2007, 16:40

Opera? :puke: :p

Though to be fair it's holding up OK on my mobile phone (e.g. CB works way better in Opera than Mobile IE). Just have to decide if that's a good enough reason to open the wallet. :/

Daz

12-06-2007, 16:46

Tried minimo (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/)?

[edit]Or Deepfish (http://labs.live.com/deepfish/), if you know a way in.

Mark

12-06-2007, 17:00

Haven't heard of either, so no. :) :huh:

petemc

12-06-2007, 17:02

Safari is a very nice browser on OSX. It integrates well with some other apps. However I use FF for its extensions. I reckon Safari could get popular but it really needs an adblocker for Windows.

Flibster

12-06-2007, 17:22

Oh dear.
This is very poor.

Beta? Nope.
Alpha? More likely.

I'll stick with IE or Opera over this.

Simon/~Flibster

Dymetrie

14-06-2007, 12:35

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6745749.stm

Some of the comments at the bottom are good, especially the guy who wants IE to stay at the top of the market :p