Dear All

Yes, Apple has released Safari on Windows currently public beta and Apple is touting it to be the best browser on the planet. eeks..

What are your thoughts?

My
According to their site, 12 reasons to love Safari

1) Blazing Performance- Excuse me but Safari gobbles up 70mb of RAM at startup while Firefox digs a measly 18mb (atleast on my PC), don't bother about IE (who does anyway).

2) Elegant User Interface- Oh really, you gotta be kidding me, its the most boring thing I've seen since Windows 95, again Apple says "Safari’s clean, sleek look lets you focus on the web instead of your browser". Sorry but I'm used to having icons in my browser, which actually increases my workflow, as I've been accustomed to icons of different sites.

3) Easy Bookmarks- Firefox provides it.

4) Pop-up Blocking- Again, Firefox.

5) Inline Find- Firefox again.

6) Tabbed Browsing- Yeah, you guessed it, Firefox.

7) Snapback- Dunno but this appears to be the only special thing in Safari, if Firefox provides it by some extension or something, I'm unaware, so please let me know guys.

8) Forms Autofill- Firefox.

9) Built-in RSS- Firefox.

10) Resizable Textfields- A strange feature, what's the purpose?

11) Private Browsing- If and when required, Firefox.

12) Security- Firefox does enough for me here, no thanks.

Call me a Firefox fanboy but that is how I feel. Pen your thoughts. And if Safari provides some other unknown features available please post them. Thanks

Edit: And on top of this all, can you really beat the power of the community(people), Extensions??

it uses the KHTML engine

the Inquirer version of this story, funny as always

whats the point of it, its basically an uglier, slower version of firefox

I tried it... I'm sticking to my Firefox.

Same if I were on a mac, I'd download firefox and thunderbird in a heart beat (among other things).

The only positive thing about this is that it will indeed make life a lot easier for web developers. In my former job, we had a lot of issues with clients using Safari. It was just impossible to get things right with that crappy browser and without a Mac to test it, things got difficult.

Now, the negative thing about it is that Apple borrowed a lot of things from Opensource community (much, much more than MS does). Heck, Safari is even based on the Konqueror's Engine. Yet, they release Safari for Windows only, instead of being at least kind and release it, at very least, to *BSD.

It is things like these (among many others) that makes me dislike Apple so much. Yet, so many defend it. Linux > MS >>> Apple

I like Safari on the Mac because it's so fast. Haven't tried the PC version yet, but if it's slower than Firefox, I'm definitely not using it there! I still use IE on my PC because Firefox is so painfully slow!

Since I'm a fanboy of Konqueror (and please people try it!)

I would have to say that for me apple gets -1 more, since as St.Jimmy first said, it uses the KHTML engine which is what Konqueror is developed on and many many other open source projects use as well(like Amarok), at least give some credit!

It's much faster than Firefox, to load and browse. People ought to try it on OSX and see the difference instead of just nagging about that browser.
Anyway, except for speed, Firefox is better, as the interface makes much more sense and the extensions are plenty.

I thought this thread was entitled "Safari on Windows". What does its speed under OSX have to do with the topic? If I'm not mistaken, wouldn't "trying it on OSX" require that I have a Mac? Maybe I'm wrong. When is Apple's release date for OSX on the PC?

From what I can gather from people who have tested it on Windows XP is that its closer to pre-alpha software then beta software.... *very* unstable and extremely feature-lacking.
Apple should be sued for calling it the "Worlds best browser"

i havew used it on windows xp and found it fairly good,

its definatly faster than either firefox or IE7 at most things, (startup and page load)

however the one lack of feture that breaks it for me is a decent adblocker,
im so used to not seeing adds atall with firefox that it comes as a shock how many there are with safari (or ie7)

my ratings. out of 10

firefox 2, 10
firefox 1.5.x, 9
safari, 8
konqueror, 8
opera, 7
IE7 6
Mozilla 5
netscape 5
Ie6 4

Konqueror was always my favorite back in my Linux days, but AFAIK, it's not available on any of the desktop platforms I use now (Windows, Mac, and Solaris) :-(

Hopefully it will be available for Windows since KDE 4 is going to have a Windows port.

Wait...what? KDE 4 will work on Windows? Thats almost scary, Windoze will even make it look bad.

As far as Safari, never used it, never intend to, Konqueror is too bloated, IE is way to bloated and soaks bandwidth, Firefox is just right.