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Safari for Windows Updated to 3.0.1

It seems not even Apple.com was tested in Safari ...

I don't have a windows machine at home so I cannot retry it, but at the office I downloaded Safari 3 yesterday and it worked, sort of, with some problems/issues, the most notorious and annoying being the font rendering one.

Anyhow, today after I read about the upgrade (3.0.1) I went to http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ and surprise, surprise, it does not render properly, so the left section of the page where it shows the download option is not displayed at all. I checked Firefox and IE, and both worked properly. So I could not use Safari to download Safari's update.

BTW, it still behaves the same after the update.
 
I don't know about y'all but Safari works perfectly fine for me. And the way it renders text allows me to actually sit back and not have my face up against the screen.
 
gmanrique said:
Anyhow, today after I read about the upgrade (3.0.1) I went to http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ and surprise, surprise, it does not render properly, so the left section of the page where it shows the download option is not displayed at all. I checked Firefox and IE, and both worked properly. So I could not use Safari to download Safari's update.
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Renders fine for me. So, this could just be an isolated problem. I get the feeling that many of these bugs are not widespread problems. But it would help explain why it was released as beta.
 
My Safarai 3.0 and 3.0.1 both install fine (on Win XP SP2), then when I try and run it, it flickers up on screen for a nanosecond and disappears forever!
No sign it is running in the background, it just starts for a microsecond and then explodes :eek:

I liked the silvery flash I saw though, great stuff :apple: :D


way to kill a thread and i was hoping the next post was 'Wow, I have the exact same bug and the fix is..!'
 
coogee said:
My Safarai 3.0 and 3.0.1 both install fine (on Win XP SP2), then when I try and run it, it flickers up on screen for a nanosecond and disappears forever!
No sign it is running in the background, it just starts for a microsecond and then explodes :eek:

I liked the silvery flash I saw though, great stuff :apple: :D


way to kill a thread and i was hoping the next post was 'Wow, I have the exact same bug and the fix is..!'
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Wierd. I've installed it on two Windows machines and I'm running it with Parallels and everything's been super-chill, but then again these are fairly streamlined Windows installs with very little additional software and typical hardware.
 
Great Apple. So could you now fix the display problems? Apple.com seems to be about the only website that it can display properly. I mean with all those people experiencing crashes, not being able to start correctly, or simply not being able to display websites like they should (and EVERYONE I've spoken to has that issue!) this is really, really terrible press that will hurt Apple for a long, long time. Any beta Microsoft has released over the past years seems to have been way more stable than Safari for Windows, even big ones like Windows XP etc. Did they actually test the browser?
 
My experience so far

I gotta say, it is nice to have Safari on my windows box. On my mac, I use Safari 99% of the time. I only deviate when something was incompatible, and then I'd use Firefox. I really don't like the look & feel of Firefox on the Mac. Although my friend turned me onto some awesome plug-ins like adblock that I really like, but not enough for me to put up with the delay in launch time for firefox.

On my PC at work, I was 100% Firefox until this morning. I finally installed Safari 3.0.1. Yep, I couldn't wait any longer...

I like it. I've had two crashes so far. Both of them when working with www.wunderground.com. I'll be avoiding that site for now and see how everything else goes. I feel right at home!!! :D
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
So it would seem...

Here's what happens when I'm trying to add a bookmark:

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Fantastic... :rolleyes:
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Im not sure If anybody else noticed this but. If you look carefully. He is running Safari 3 BETA for win XP on PARALLES for mac. :eek:
and iexpects not to have any issues. :confused: Silly Rabbit Try running Safari 3 for windows on a windows machine and remember that it is a BETA The reason For betas is so that people can test them real-world and find security holes. Plus they also challenge script kiddies to break their code. so theyll brag when they do and bam they can fix the problems with out having to pay anybody to find them.
 
latinlovr said:
Im not sure If anybody else noticed this but. If you look carefully. He is running Safari 3 BETA for win XP on PARALLES for mac. :eek:
and iexpects not to have any issues. :confused: Silly Rabbit Try running Safari 3 for windows on a windows machine and remember that it is a BETA The reason For betas is so that people can test them real-world and find security holes. Plus they also challenge script kiddies to break their code. so theyll brag when they do and bam they can fix the problems with out having to pay anybody to find them.
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im sure many ppl realize he was running it in VM, somebody even asked the question "why would anybody want to do that?" :D

about beta being the reason of forgiveness, it has been discussed hundreds of times, if apple think its the reason, then apple needs to bear the consequence . which is, NOT good. excuses are easy to find, but reality won't change, no any other famous windows beta app is as buggy as this.
 
Safari installs but does not run if your Windows XP username has international characters in it. For instance, if your username is José, and your application files get stored in C:/Documents and Settings/José, the app doesn't start up.

If I create a username with no accents, however, Safari runs without any issues. This is exactly the type of problem that I had with Democracy Player about a year ago.

What's with this lack of support for users with accented names? Has anyone found a way to get around this bug, other than removing the accents from their name?
 
Zoide said:
What's with this lack of support for users with accented names? Has anyone found a way to get around this bug, other than removing the accents from their name?
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It's an oversight on apple's part. Report it to Apple so they can fix it.
 
milo said:
It's an oversight on apple's part. Report it to Apple so they can fix it.
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Apple, on their download page, lists many issues with international downloaders, saying that support for them is coming soon:
Coming Soon:
Support for International users
International text input methods
Advanced text (contextual forms, international scripts)
Localized menus and help
NTLM support
PAC file auto-detection
FTP directory listings
Link to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
Cookie management
LiveConnect support
Tooltips
Spell checking
Printing page numbers, titles, margins
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Thanks for the info!

Honestly, though, how hard can it be to support international users right from the start? Safari and Democracy Player are the only two applications I have ever encountered with that kind of problem. :mad:
 
CoreWeb said:
Apple, on their download page, lists many issues with international downloaders, saying that support for them is coming soon:
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dont you feel like apple is packaging a whole mini OS in it? LOL, why bother? KHTML is famous of being small and light, now apple make it into a big monster.
 
Safari for Vista

Safari doesn't seem to work at all on Vista. It just quits as soon as it opens. Has anyone else had this problem?
:eek:
 
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