Safari!!!

I haven't used it or tested it but from what i have read and from the look of it ( damn it looks good ) i reckon apple's web browser safari is the nicest one i have ever seen.

have any of you guys used it? .. what did you think?

one other question if you can be bothered :)

what browsers do you guys use and why?


http://www.apple.com/safari/

ps - sorry if this has been done before i was trying to search the forums but it was taking ages and returning blank pages.

also http://www.apple.com/macosx/ looks very nice :D

Safari is very nice, still in its beta version though. It's "untagged", which is the main disadvantage to me. Speedwise, try to compare it to Opera 7 for windows, its almost as fast. It has a good css support, nice interface etc. There are more features yet to come, but if it won't be tagged I won't use it. I use Chimera (Boosted), primarily because of its speed and Mozilla, because of everything else. And I can't stand IE because its so bloody slow on macos x and because of the way it caches pages (on any platform).

is NS7 any good? i'm running win XP and use netscape to surf the web. i think it works well but i don't know much about browers.

I have been using safari since the open beta came out, and really like it for basic web browsing. AO is incredibly fast compared to netscape 7 or IE.

I do have some problems with it. It refuses(and I have looked for a solution with no results) to open an https connection with a site using a certificate which is not provided by the major providers. I have a site which I maintain for myself, and have a certificate on it, which I created, just to get the encryption, and safari refuses to go to the site. It does not even seem to have a place to modify that setting.

Also, I hate the way it works when you click in the address field. When working, or even browsing for fun, I often want to copy and paste from the address bar. In netscape 7, if you click in the address field, it highlights the whole thing, which is what I want so I can then just copy, without actually having to manually highlight the whole line.

Anyway, for serious work/browsing I open netscape. For just looking around AO or slashdot or something, well, I use safari.

IchNiSan: triple click will highlight your address bar. One is for activation, one highlights extension and the last one highlights the whole thing ;) , You get used to it in a while. Safari does have some problems with SSL, hopefully will be corrected in final release.