Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 31st May 2008 18:25 UTC, submitted by Jaikrishnan Janardhanan
The first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the world of web browsers has come a long way since then, more or less turning into a platform of their own. This puts increasing pressure on web browsers to be really really good pieces of software, and as such, ZDnet has a 7-page comparison of the world's major web browsers, comparing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I will for SURE give a try in Safari after reading this.
Trying new things is usually a very good idea. However, in this particular case, you might want to put the experiment off for a while - a design flaw in Safari on Win32 opens a hole for exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. I strongly advise you avoid Safari/Win32 until Apple and/or Microsoft issue a patch.
References:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/safari_carpet_bomb.ht...
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/05/31/SafariPwnsInternetExplorer.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953818.mspx
Member since:2005-11-10
There is no evidence this is a zero day attack, and that anybody cares about [attacking] Safari with it's marketshare less than Firefox. Secondly the exploit goes hand in hand with an *old* still unpatched IE flaw.
There's still that zero day flash exploit going around. If anything, don't worry about Safari, make sure you have Flash turned off, and if at all possible, don't use Windows 
Member since:2007-06-26
Member since:2005-11-21
Member since:2006-07-04
I will for SURE give a try in Safari after reading this.
You may want to hold off on trying Safari, in light of the massive security issue ("carpet bobmbing vulnerability") that Apple acknowledges but refuses to fix.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/31/1214254
Edited 2008-06-01 18:53 UTC
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2007-09-03
I will for SURE give a try in Safari after reading this.
I have been using Firefox 3 since alpha releases and it's amazingly fast compared to the second version. Sometimes, at work, I need to shift back to IE and it's crazy to notice how slow/unresponsive it is...
Funny to see that even Apple, and Opera too,did a better job than MS on Windows.
But awesome to see browser war back. The hardest thing is to make the users to shift even with so many arguments.