Apple's Safari 3.0 Browser Beta released for Mac......and PC

[RockyTop1]

https://www.apple.com

Using it to post this. Seems pretty speedy so far.

[fishepa]

Re: Apple's Safari 3.0 Browser Beta released for Mac......and PC

I'll be getting a mac when Leopard comes out this October, I can't wait.

[bkfount]

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Apple was right, it is fast. Fast at being uninstalled from my pc. At least FF2 lets you restore a session after a crash, a feature safari really needs. If Apple thinks it will convert many pc owners into apple buyers with a buggy prerelease beta, they are mistaken.

I don't really see the need to leave my firefox, especially since it has a great addon community.

[Dipstick]

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Apple was right, it is fast. Fast at being uninstalled from my pc. At least FF2 lets you restore a session after a crash, a feature safari really needs. If Apple thinks it will convert many pc owners into apple buyers with a buggy prerelease beta, they are mistaken.

I don't really see the need to leave my firefox, especially since it has a great addon community.

I don't know why I thought of the main villian from Tomorrow Never Dies when I read that.

[dagger55]

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works great on my mac...

no clue about how it works on windows.


the Find feature is the easily the best of any browser that i have seen

[ESPNdeportes]

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I read there are a few security flaws in the beta. I'd watch out before I use it for anything were you're using your credit card or ID or anything like that.

However, its still probably much safer than using IE on a PC, LOL.

[dave360]

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I like it alot. I changed my default browser to it after working it out for a couple of days. I can't wait for the next update to it.

[pfunk880]

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It's one thing to give Windows users iTunes because of the iPod, but Safari won't offer most Windows users a reason to switch. Heck, most people are still naive enough to use IE over Firefox.

[ObiWanJenkins]

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I have Safari on my PC. It's slow to load, a little buggy, and it doesn't close properly everytime. It does load pages faster and it doesn't crash. I think with some work, it could become a nice browser.

[koebner]

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Safari for Windows has been patched/updated to 3.0.1 by Apple.
If you're running it you should upgrade.

[nyisles16]

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using it now.. only issue I had was that a few of my bookmarks I had to redo (even OS) because of an issue they had.. otherwise, no problems so far on my Windows rig..

[CoRruPt-]

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I've been using Safari for a bit now.

I personally like the RSS interface much better than FF's, which could definitely use some improvement. I like it how I can see a blurb of the article, search them, and even sort by relevance. While FF's RSS is just a subsection in the bookmarks and merely lists the article title.

But other than that, Safari is not really impressive enough to make me want to make the jump from FF. FF still trumps all the other browsers in terms of the variety of addons. Yes, I am an addons addict. And like bkfount mentioned, no session restore. And I usually open like 30-40 tabs whenever I browse, so I get very annoyed (pre FF2, but I used an addon as a session manager... see? Beauty of addons).

BTW, I posted this from FF . Bottom line, Safari needs to do more to make me impressed. If it loads significantly faster than FF or something. I don't really see a noticeable difference right now.

[rubisco43]

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eh, too many browsers out there. FF does the trick for me.

[burnwood]

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It's quick, I'll give it that. A couple freezes while waking the computer up from standby or leaving the browser window open for long periods of time. I'll wait until the finished product.

Don't forget it's mostly on the Windows platform to encourage web apps for the iPhone.

[ehh]

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I'm making this post from Safari on my PC.

I don't know, maybe something is wrong w. my FF or my PC, but Safari is much faster than FF for me.