Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
A test version of Safari 3 for Windows XP, Vista and Apple Macs running OSX, is available for download from the Apple website.
"We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari," said Mr Jobs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6742439.stm

Couldn't get it on our PC's quick enough. Works great. Try it!

I've been using it most of this week, very mixed results, it doesn't open quite a few of my favourite sites, I can find no way of turning off google and other advertisements, I don't like the way it handles favourites and the spell checker doesn't appear to work.
It throws up java script errors when I close it, and sometimes opens things in new pages instead of tabs despite setting it to do tabs and does not size windows to fit the screen correctly, I'm of the opinion that it needs a lot of work doing to it before the release version.

Great idea but I fear that Apple might have shot themselves in the foot here by releasing something not quite ready for prime-time. It still needs quite a bit of work, I think.

I have this browser on my Intel Mac works great and very quick but I have heard that its still a bit 'buggy' on Windows operating systems at the moment.

Tried it. Didn't like it. Found interface to be cumbersome and the fonts awful. It's nowhere near as good as Firefox. My Mac-obsessed buddy hates it too, he uses Firefox on his Mac. Oh and Vista didn't like too much either and declared it as having "compatability problems".

Just un-installed it - 'twas a waste of space on my disk. Would be nice if they finished it before releasing the next version.:rolleyes:

I also found it fairly useless. It's back to Firefox for me. Can anyone explain why pages on this site (http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=1366&Overide=1) don't display correctly in Firefox?

I've gone the other way too. I've never been overly impressed with Safari even though I think browsers are basically browsers. Had I known Firefox was available for Mac I would have downloaded it long ago. Got it now and like it.

Can anyone explain why pages on this site (http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=1366&Overide=1) don't display correctly in Firefox?

Not certain, but I've sent the URL to the Firefox team for investigation.

Oddly it works in Safari though. :ugh:

slow, looks aweful hell i would use IE if i had a choice between the 2 :yuk:

Green granite - how weird is that? Even "View Source" shows the extraneous ???s in Firefox, but not in IE.

It's a badly-generated webpage: in the header it say the character set is iso-8859-1 (standard ANSI), but it includes Unicode (UTF-16) characters - probably pulled out of a database as they were entered.

It's about time people who generate web pages tested them on things other than I.E., just shows Idleness and a certain non-professionalism on their part.
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