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Software Apple's Safari Browser Now On Windows
Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - June 11, 2007 2:36 PM
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Safari 3 on Windows XP
Apple makes its flagship browser available to Windows users for free

At its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco today, Apple demonstrated several features of its upcoming Leopard operating system which DailyTech covered previously. The biggest software announcement however comes in the form of Safari, OS X's default web browser. Like iTunes, Apple is now making its Safari web browser fully compatible with Windows.

Safari 3 is available today via a public beta download. According to Apple, Safari is roughly twice as fast as Internet Explorer and is roughly 42-percent faster than Firefox in terms of HTML browsing performance.

Safari 3 for Windows comes with the following features:
  • Pop-up blocking
  • Tabbed browsing
  • SnapBack
  • Private browsing
New to Safari is the ability to drag tabs out of the main browsing window. Doing so will turn a tab into its own browser window. This feature is available on both Mac and Windows versions of Safari. Private browsing turns off caching features, allowing users to browse without worrying that Google searches and page histories are saved.

No word from Apple on when the final release of Safari 3 will come but it's safe to say that when Leopard ships in October, Safari 3 will be finalized.

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Interesting
By TimberJon on 6/11/2007 3:08:03 PM , Rating: 3
I know nothing about Apple products..

But this browser sounds interesting.

Funny how I see only Pros but no Cons.




RE: Interesting
By Cobra Commander on 6/11/2007 3:10:11 PM , Rating: 3
How is it any different that Opera/IE7/FF from that small bullet list in teh article?


RE: Interesting
By michael2k on 6/11/2007 3:12:46 PM , Rating: 5
If you read the rest of the article:
Faster
Porn-mode
Drag and drop tabs


RE: Interesting
By noxipoo on 6/11/2007 3:28:14 PM , Rating: 2
hehe porn-mode, so true... i mean, i don't know anything about that.


RE: Interesting
By Kougar on 6/11/2007 7:39:13 PM , Rating: 2
Opera already offers "fast", offers "porn mode" and offers drag and drop tabs.


RE: Interesting
By michael2k on 6/11/2007 8:09:39 PM , Rating: 1
For free? I thought Opera was paid for or ad supported?


RE: Interesting
By DaveSylvia on 6/11/2007 8:27:29 PM , Rating: 3
Just so ya know, Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/09/20/


RE: Interesting
By Kougar on 6/12/2007 9:20:50 AM , Rating: 2
As was said above, yes completely free and with no ads. :) I much prefer the extremely customizable interface. Forget drag & dropping tabs, you can drag & drop parts of the interface for however you want it to appear.


RE: Interesting
By enlil242 on 6/19/2007 7:55:37 AM , Rating: 2
When I had my G5, My browser preference was:

1. Opera *free w/o banners*
2. Firefox
3. IE
4. Safari

Safari always seem to lag behind in performance and didn't display some pages very well. It may have changed since I sued it, but I still have tiger on my iBook and do not see any difference. However, OSX Tiger on my g3 iBook is sssssssllllllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww anyway...


RE: Interesting
By GoodBytes on 6/11/2007 11:12:24 PM , Rating: 4
Drag and drop tabs are in Firefox 2.0 and IE 7....


RE: Interesting
By Mitch101 on 6/13/2007 9:30:01 AM , Rating: 2
Yes and not to mention the tons of plug-ins for firefox.

This is cool that there is another browser so I guess this comes down to which browser is the most secure for surfing the web?


RE: Interesting
By noxipoo on 6/13/2007 11:08:50 AM , Rating: 3
adblock plus and greasemonkey are 2 things i don't want to give up on firefox. unless opera has these, i prob won't use it even if its 2x faster in everything.


RE: Interesting
By kalak on 6/15/2007 4:05:05 PM , Rating: 3
Firefox is a lot more secure:
- ADBLOCK
- NOSCRIPT

and have a HUGE community support and plug-ins...


RE: Interesting
By incompleteunit on 6/11/2007 3:20:39 PM , Rating: 5
Well, it is pretty quick.

Flash seems a bit slow.

The built-in RSS reader is pretty good, though I'd like it if it could do a 'live bookmark' list style, like Firefox.

It's got inline find, like FF, which is good, but it's glitchy. It won't scroll the page down when it finds occurrences of the word farther down. If you search for a word, then click in the window somewhere, ctrl+f doesn't bring you back into the search field until you've closed the search bar.

It's got a built-in spellcheck, but that doesn't seem to be enabled yet.

It seems like a good start though - still in beta and all, so we'll see how it goes.


RE: Interesting
By encryptkeeper on 6/11/2007 3:35:33 PM , Rating: 1
Still in beta and 42% faster than FF? I love my Fireweasel, don't get me wrong, but for 42% faster, it's worth a try. I like Itunes *much* better than Windows Media Player, so why not.


RE: Interesting
By eman 7613 on 6/11/2007 4:31:28 PM , Rating: 1
Ive got a mac as well as PC, and safari does load and render pages much faster, the exception is when you put rediculas amounts of jvscript or flash into the page, then its a more level playing field


RE: Interesting
By ebakke on 6/11/2007 5:19:24 PM , Rating: 5
Thanks for confirming the lack of a spell checker.


RE: Interesting
By MonkeyPaw on 6/12/2007 6:26:15 PM , Rating: 2
Actually it does have spell checker, or at least the option is in the menu. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be checking my spelling, and 2 of the options aren't available. Wonder what's going on?

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7453/safarigq1....


RE: Interesting
By maroon1 on 6/12/07, Rating: -1
RE: Interesting
By michael2k on 6/12/2007 12:23:50 PM , Rating: 3
Can you read?

He said he likes it better, he didn't say iTunes was better than WMP.


RE: Interesting
By Martimus on 6/14/2007 2:44:51 PM , Rating: 2
iTunes may be better than Media Player, but I still prefer WinAmp to both. It annoyed the heck out of me that I couldn't do half of the things I did in my 8 year old WinAmp in iTunes. I spent days trying to convert the songs I bought on iTunes to MP3 so that I could go back to WinAmp.


RE: Interesting