Safari for Windows

Desslok · 08 Oct 2010

DeaconFrost said:

I haven't met a Mac person yet who even uses Safari, much less a Windows person, so why even consider it? With IE, Firefox, Chrom, and Opera, you have plenty of other choices.

LOL, true. First thing I do on a new Mac is run updates, then download FF. Just did this last month on my kid's new Mac mini.

DeaconFrost · 08 Oct 2010

I honestly assumed Firefox came with OSX like it does for Ubuntu Linux, because I've never been in front of a Mac without it.

Benjamin Hall · 08 Oct 2010

I tried it out mostly to see how it worked, lol.
I'm not going to continue using it; in fact, I am uninstalling it.

DeaconFrost · 08 Oct 2010

Benjamin Hall said:

I tried it out mostly to see how it worked, lol.

No harm in that at all, but in the future, if you plan to test out software....virtualize.

whs · 08 Oct 2010

I used Safari for a while but was not impressed.

Dinesh · 08 Oct 2010

I use Safari since version 4 as well and I really like it. Sometimes, I do all my browsing using Safari whole day.

mr pc · 08 Oct 2010

Tried it on windows and it just didn't impress - I still use Firefox and it runs great, subsidized with Opera and Chrome

I use FF on my Mac, with Opera and Camino (nice little browser) as alternates - Safari is on the machine but I rarely touch it.

pparks1 · 08 Oct 2010

DeaconFrost said:

Benjamin Hall said:

I tried it out mostly to see how it worked, lol.

No harm in that at all, but in the future, if you plan to test out software....virtualize.

Exactly. Plus that will reduce your desire to later run a registry cleaner and such to clean up the left behind debris. I saw nip the problem at the bud...don't install the stuff to your main machine in the first place. I love virtual machines.

Benjamin Hall · 09 Oct 2010

LOL! I clean my registry daily; I clean my entire PC daily... :)
I generally use VMs only to test out new operating systems.

Francis93 · 09 Oct 2010

I have used Safari before and I must say that the features are quite good especially the Mac font smoothing/rendering and speed dial. I discontinued using Safari because it's a memory/resource hogger, and bombs your PC with bloatware when installed. It also has a couple of bugs, and crashes at times. If I were a Mac user, I would definitely use Safari but since I'm a PC user so I'll go with Google Chrome. Chrome and Safari are both based on the WebKit engine anyway, and Chrome performs great here.