Safari for Windows Downloads Top 1 Million In 48 Hours

[clevin]

Apart from the subjective response to new visual stimuli, i.e. Mac-centric font smoothing in a Windows font blockiness environment, the other issues you mention can, for the time being, fall under that catch-all umbrella: "it's a beta".

NO, APplication stability is about only thing that can attributed to "beta".

System resource hog, apple's all apps have this problem, and they are not beta.

Security, there is no browser is absolutely safe, and apple's developer has been hiding behind the rock for 8 years, their ability of make secure windows app is questioned already, and its not a beta issue.

Non-native, can beta solve this? not likely

speed, webkit core/non-native are main causes, and apple can/will do nothing about it

 

[coffey7]

Don't use this on your windows computer. It has many holes. It is also very slow. Opera kicks its ass. Even IE7 is faster so far.

 

[CoreWeb]

Don't use this on your windows computer. It has many holes. It is also very slow. Opera kicks its ass. Even IE7 is faster so far.

I used it on my Windows computer. It may have holes. But it definitely went significantly faster than IE7.

 

[gil867D]

NO, APplication stability is about only thing that can attributed to "beta".

System resource hog, apple's all apps have this problem, and they are not beta.

Security, there is no browser is absolutely safe, and apple's developer has been hiding behind the rock for 8 years, their ability of make secure windows app is questioned already, and its not a beta issue.

Non-native, can beta solve this? not likely

speed, webkit core/non-native are main causes, and apple can/will do nothing about it

"System hog", as in: Safari 3 is adversely affecting my user experience by causing latency, or "system hog": the numerical figure representing Safari 3's processor usage is figuratively larger than that other numerical figure representing Firefox's processor usage?

Or both?

I would say that Apple was remiss in not covering all its bases with the Safari 3 beta release. Considering how clever their marketing department is one would have thought they'd have framed this 'event' with the predictable backlash in mind.

And since the user experience thus far falls within a range of superlatives to derisiveness I actually wonder to what degree the actual fault lies with Safari and not the user and his/her setup. Objectively speaking, if Safari 3 was such a piece of unusable s***, no one, and I mean no one (except the most die-hard of apologists with Appl stock), would find any virtue in it to extoll at all, let alone happily beta-browse the internet trouble-free.

 

[AidenShaw]

That proves that Apple's code is buggy, not Windows...

Even that patch from Apple is not a bad thing as it shows Windows is FULL of holes and the OSX version didnt need patching.

The Windows SAFARI is full of holes, yes.

Since Apple didn't patch Windows, it is obvious that Apple's coding in the Windows port was very buggy.

 

[inspiredmusic]

Google chat does not work in safari, does it?

If google chat still does not work in safari i think that is a problem...
it used to be when i owned a mac i could set the google chat up in ichat
but if they're gonna try and make safari a serious multi platform browser they should get google chat to work with it.