Apple Safari 3.1 for Windows
What's new?
Apple has released Safari for Windows mainly to aid the Windows-based development of Web apps for the iPhone, which is a smart move. But it's not a mind-blowing browser compared to Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.
It's simple and elegant, much like everything Apple produces. For this reason it's a good choice for technophobes and, thanks to its good resource management, lower-specced systems. The small load it places on RAM and CPU is, in the heavy world of IE and FF, a feature by default. It's also very quick to load pages, and in our experience the fastest to render them.
It also has an extremely attractive in-line page search function -- Safari darkens the entire Web page being searched and highlights each instance of the word being searched for. Okay, it's not as ground-breaking as automated crash recovery, but if you, er, search for words, it could be helpful.
How it compares
It's clean, it's fast and it just works. It's a good choice for people taking the first step into cyberspace, thanks to its simple operation. It's uncluttered and will make for great early experiences on the Web. But after a few months of getting used to it, even grandparents will enjoy the move to Firefox or Internet Explorer. It's a cute underdog in the Windows world for the moment.
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Penguin30
30/03/2008 08:49 PM
IE is still the best dont care what you say
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firefox is better
31/03/2008 07:09 PM
This article is very true 99% of people who have tried firefox and ie say that firefox is better
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presario
01/05/2008 03:59 AM
I have tried Netscape, IE, Firefox and Safari, and I rate them as follows, Netscape 8.1 Because it is built on firefox code, but you can display pages as though you were in internet explorer, or firefox without restarting. Firefox Because of its stability and code, the browser is inpenetrable Safari because there are features in safari that i have yet to find in other browsers IE because even though this browser is fairly good, it is not because of its code. IE has the most leaks out of all the browsers, and till IE 7 came along, you were better off with Netscape 4.0 litterally.
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Opera Wiki
05/05/2008 07:08 AM
i go for Opera, its all in the package. no need to install addon made by who :) and FF always has core problems, too many crash, memory eatting too much... speed hack needed, addon to do the job right... another words it doesnt come standard!
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Fox
17/05/2008 09:23 PM
Opera 9.5 finally has the large improvement of focusing on the tab to the right when you close one rather than the last viewed. They didn't include the ability to focus on the one to the left, though. And if you want to move to a new version, it doesn't even try to take settings from your last install. The article specifically said memory magagement in FF3 was much improved. Either some of you guys are talking about the current release versions or didn't read the article.
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Fox
17/05/2008 10:25 PM
Nevermind, Opera does import settings.
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Patrick
17/06/2008 09:20 AM
I have always hated IE, so that is the lowest for me. Above that I like safari. Then I like opera and Firefox about the same. I use firefox, because, 1 it is open source, and 2, It comes preinstalled with ubuntu. Yes, I am a linux fan
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remy215
05/07/2008 08:02 PM
opera 9.5 rocks
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anonomous
07/07/2008 09:18 AM
i have IE 7 and i think it is great... i dont think that i will be changing to any of the other becuase IE is works for me...
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viper
08/07/2008 03:10 PM
"IE is still the best"? Have you ever used any other browser? It's both ugly, and full of problems
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