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.
Thread beginning with comment 305921
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-06-29
I'm really happy they solved most issues during the beta period... mostly, the form and clipboard problems and the blurrier font rendering (around v3.0.3)... It's a nice browser, I don't use it mainly, but sometimes its very nice to launch and see some flash videos when firefox can't play them with hitches because of the quantity of tabs/flash content in them.
I don't quite like the file size comparing it to Firefox and Opera, but in the end it still a quite nice browser. It's not meant to hardcore users, but will probably make a lot of mainstream users happy...
...plus, WebKit is evolving nicely. I hope to see new desktop browser using the rendering engine.
edit: p.s.: the updater is just plain naughty evil... =] I can't remember how many times I had to say that I didn't want to install Quicktime... ESPECIALLY iTunes... and how many times I had to hide this "updates"... and how many times I had to answer 'no' to tell that I'm not interested in the "updates" I've hidden...
Edited 2008-03-21 00:55 UTC