Comments on: Safari Browser For Windows

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:23:50 +0000

I wasn’t crazy about the iTunes install either. I don’t mind having iTunes, but don’t like to have to install it. In the time since writing this post though I’ve become a Mac user so I have both Safari and iTunes by default.

Hopefully IE8 is a good browser. I’m not too hopeful when it comes to css compliance though.

By: lainwired

lainwired — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:12:01 +0000

My original concern with this is that itunes installed it without asking and it was riddled with critical security flaws. very poorly planned by apple. But hey i do some web development so im happy to see anything non IE come out. Althought Im pretty excited to see IE8. If it is really 100% standard rendering im going to be a happy man.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:43:53 +0000

Maybe it won’t cut into anyone’s market share too much, but it Safari will probably grab a few percentage points here and there. You’re right though that it will be hard to convince Firefox users to switch. I know I’m not switching because I have far too many extensions installed that I use daily. Until another browser can duplicate the functionality in the majority of them I won’t be switching.

But I will be testing sites and maybe occasionally exploring the web in Safari. And the browser will get some to think what life might be like on a Mac instead of a PC.

By: matt J

matt J — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:52:54 +0000

I don’t think will increase the safari browser share by too much. The people prepared to use a different browser other than IE on windows already use firefox.

And getting firefox users to switch will be like convincing communists that capitolism is good.

Still, It’s good that windows users have another browser to test thier sites in.

By: Kristen Hilley

Kristen Hilley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:27:14 +0000

Strange indeed! It’ll be interesting to see what happens for sure. I’ve submitted my “Safari experience” to SEOmoz, not sure if it’s really appropriate for their site though. You might not like the story if it’s published, it’s a bit of a slam on Apple [note to self, start writing posts that aren't slams in the near future]. In case it doesn’t get approved, one of my favorite sentences in it is “Apple, welcome to Windows”.

Totally agree with you that Apple has seemed to get a free pass on bugs & security, and I think that with their move into Windows they are going to get the light shined on them in a big way.

I’ve become a pretty loyal Firefox fan. Cheers!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:51:00 +0000

I’ll be looking forward to the YOUmoz post and I’ll keep my fingers crossed it gets promoted to the main blog. I need to start writing and submitting some posts to YOUmoz myself. I’ve been meaning to since the beginning, but never find the time. Reminder: Make Time.

“Apple, welcome to Windows” is a great line.

I do think there’s truth in the lack of market share contributing to the lack of bugs found in OSX. I think some of that would also apply to Linux too, though I’d bet both are still more secure than Windows.

I love Firefox. I have so many extensions installed that I really couldn’t liev without anymore. I wish they would fix the memory leak problems though. Lately if I view a video or two in a new tab not only does Firefox slow to a crawl, but all of XP. I’ve taken to not watching videos until late at night when I’m planning on shutting down.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:31:49 +0000

Weird Kristen. Admittedly I haven’t used Safari much other than an hour or so when I first installed it, but I haven’t seen any bugs yet. I imagine I’ll find a few. So far I’ve been happy that sites I checked in it have all been looking like they should.

Hopefully when it moves out of beta it will work for you. It’s going to be useful for testing.

One of the things I found interesting in the article I linked to at the end was how some of the bugs are being found on the Mac side as well. Apple in some ways has had a free pass on bugs and security because it has never been as popular, but if they’re going to move the browser to the Windows side they’re going to be held to more scrutiny.

Ironically the only browser I’ve never been able to get working on my machine is IE7. I’ve installed it about a dozen times and it immediately freezes after launching. I’ve given up trying and just use IE6.

By: Kristen Hilley

Kristen Hilley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:37:45 +0000

Though I was initially excited about the prospect of running Safari on my Windows machine, I seem to have hit one of their beta bugs. My machine has over 800 fonts installed on it, and the navigation bars and menus will not appear at all on my Safari install as such. At first I thought maybe I’d interrupted the install process somehow, or just needed to reboot. After a clean uninstall, reinstall, reboot the same issue persists. I submitted my feedback to Apple via their web site, but overall am very unimpressed.

Apple is going to need to do some serious damage control after this beta Windows release. Over 18 major security bugs have been found in the first day of its release, with a security 3.0.1 patch released this morning. At this point, I’m not sure how Apple is going to win me over to want to use Safari.