Apple release beta 3 of safari browser for windows.

[©opy®ight]

I'm gonna try it out too, but now i was lookin for all kind of alternative browsers online andfound a list

http://browsers.evolt.org/

if anybody finds some interesting ones on there post the name i'm curios what they all do but dont have time to test them all right now, gotta go to work...

"i know they're not all up to date...."

[mohaughn]

Using it now... Immediate thoughts are that I don't like that RSS is enabled by default. It was very slow when I first started it, and was using almost 90mb of ram for the first five minutes(firefox was at 60, IE was at 32). Went searching through the options and saw that it is pulling RSS from about 8 different sites. disabled.

I also don't like the borderless window. I'm used to that on OSX, but when everything else looks like XP with themes turned off safari looks out of place not following the windows standard. I'll have to mess around with the visual settings as I'm sure I can get it to be a little bit better.


And the private browsing is useless. I like that in firefox I can completely configure what gets cleared. For instance you have the options of browsing history, download history, save form information, cache, cookies, saves passwords, authenticated sessions. Looks like in safari you can do the following on different screens, clear cookies, clear history, empty cache, or enable private mode. Private mode just keeps it from remembering anything while in that mode. Close the browser and it goes out of private mode, starts collecting data again. I also didn't see a way to clear the autocomplete, or a way to do a complete browser privacy wipe.

Fonts in general look much better than firefox. If I can get use to how out of place it looks on a windows machine I might continue to use it. Not noticing a major speed difference between this and firefox just yet.


I also noticed that it doesn't honor the scrolling of my touchpad. All of my other windows will scroll when I center click and move my eraser pad up or down. Safari doesn't, that is kind of annoying. Really seems like an OSX port where they did everything possible not to make it respond or work how a windows app should look and respond. If I wanted to use MacOS X apps I'd run OS X. I don't see myself using it much more. Firefox 2 is better.