Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 21:37 UTC
Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June last year. Apple has claimed that the browser is the fastest available for Windows. In a Tuesday statement, Cupertino said it "loads web pages 1.9 times faster than [Internet Explorer] 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 [and] runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers". Don't think you have Safari for Windows installed? You might want to check again.
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A whole other bowl of worms so to speak. I dislike the Mac method but that's a whole separate topic. The 'global menu' from my viewpoint is far less efficient method of working but as always YMMV and a lot of people work differently.
It's a different design philosophy but when dropping their app on a platform that uses the other mode of operation, they could try and 'think different.' Thank you for pointing out why it looks bad, I didn't think of the menu bar difference.
I 'discovered' a new annoyance which prompted me to remove Safari. Bonjour was installed which for some strange reason prevented my system from connecting to the internet. It connected to the local network just fine but it decided that the Internet was a separate network connection but that connection would not talk to the local network which prevented net access.
Probably just a configuration thing with Bonjour but thank you Apple for installing a separate app I didn't ask for and screwing things up. The problem did not exist when I initially installed and didn't occur until I booted the machine up this morning. Un-installing Safari and Bonjour was an easy fix.