Safari Browser

[rast]

Hi everyone =)

Anyone heard of the Safari browser from apple (its just been released for windows):
http://www.apple.com/safari/

I just kinda discovered it and wondered whether anyone here had tried it out. I haven't downloaded/installed it yet for fear of crashing my allready slow internet pc

but yeah, anyone use it?

[Xordan]

Yeah, I tried it. It's faster than firefox and IE, but lacks many of the features I use (like my FF extensions ). So it's not great for me.

[ThomPhoenix]

I don't really like it either. Besides, they found 6 bugs of which 2 very critical ones on the first day of the release.

[Xordan]

I don't really like it either. Besides, they found 6 bugs of which 2 very critical ones on the first day of the release.

Well it is a beta release. This is when they should be finding bugs.

[ThomPhoenix]

Well, those leaks were found within two hours after the release
Besides, Apple claims that "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.".

[Raleigh]

Well, those leaks were found within two hours after the release
Besides, Apple claims that "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.".

What's wrong with that? Making easily dismissed claims about the security of a software isn't an exclusive right of Microsoft.

[rast]

I think i might wait a while then before downloading it  . Too be honest, most of the stuff they offer on it looks very similar to firefox and it doesn't support the number of add ons that firefox has (as you said xordan).

[seperot]

in my opinion its not gonna do alot... people who dont like IE generally stick with Firefox or Opera... there's not much need for this browser

[Eletiy]

yeah the browser is buggy yet, we'll see if apple is able to improve it. On OS X Safari workes really fine.
I think they will make it better because they want to show how good OS X is..

[miadon]

Personally I think firefox lost its way from what it was origanally trying to do. I probably will try safari on Windows tommorow.

[Raleigh]

Personally I think firefox lost its way from what it was origanally trying to do.

How exactly? On what do you think that firefox has failed about its original intentions and ideas?

[Manar]

Back when it was called Firebird it was supposed to be light-weight and minimalistic, as opposed to the mozilla suite.
It has ehm, bloated a bit, since.

[miadon]

/\/\/\ Exactly

[Raleigh]

     Opera seems more "minimalistic" and lightweight than firefox, but I still prefer firefox even though it might have failed with that, this "bloated" doesn't sound so critical for the normal computers of nowadays. And for better or worse, Firefox in Linux is like Internet Explorer in Windows. It's the standard of most distros and I doubt this could change easily. And I like many of the extensions
     Now, are they intending on also releasing a Linux version of Safari?

[ThomPhoenix]

No way Firefox is bloated!
Without any add-ons installed you can just browse with it and receive RSS feeds. To actually do some nice stuff with Firefox you need to install lots of add-ons. I currently have 16 add-ons installed

Opera is more "bloated" though it's still fast. It has a built in download manager, IRC client and bittorrent client.