Safari for Windows

[Benjamin Hall]

Does anybody use it? If so, what do you think of it?
What do you like and dislike about it? Be specific!


I downloaded it tonight and am testing it out.
I think it's nice. It hardly uses any memory, surprisingly, yet it's as fast as Google Chrome. The only downside to it is I can't download add-ons for it.

I will admit that I am mostly using it to feed into my mac-theme that I have going on right now. But who knows, perhaps the more I use it, the more I'll like it?

 

[Gornot]

I have been using Safari from the day v4 came out till the day it was replaced by Safari 5.
v4 just looks and works beautifully, aside from the fact that there were no add-ons and stuff, unlike the latest v5.

But I find Safari 5 clunky and slow until I cache the websites that I use frequently, and even then the speed can only be compared to Google Chrome without the cache set up. v5 has some useful add-ons, but it only slows the browser further, especially on first start-up (i.e. after turning on your PC).

It is not great, but it is not bad either. IMHO it is the golden-middle.

If you want an older version of Safari to test against the latest, this is your link
Old Version of Safari for Windows Download - OldApps.com

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Thanks! I'll check it out in a few days after testing this one.

 

[Gornot]

I am sure that you'll fall in love with Top Sites; no browser can compare to how gorgeous this feature works

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Erm, I already hate it. I have the Speed Dial installed for Google Chrome... can't beat that

 

[Klaw117]

I've used Safari in the past and only kept it on my system for one day. The biggest issue for me was that you can't change the search providers in the search bar - you're limited to only Google and Yahoo I think and I use Wikipedia on the search bar A LOT in other browsers.

 

[Gornot]

:roflmao: @ Benjamin

True, that search engines annoyance was not corrected in v5, but I think that there might be an extension on the Apple website to add it... Haven't checked it out, really, as I simply just bookmark Wikipedia =)

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Hey now, lol

 

[DeaconFrost]

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.

 

[pparks1]

@DeaconFrost: Yeah, I'm unsure of why anybody would be using Safari on a Windows platform. At one point ,that browser was massively unsecure.

 

[Desslok]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I used Safari for a while but was not impressed.

 

[Dinesh]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Francis93]

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.