Apple Safari browser for Windows.
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From: N54 58 34 W02 01 21
Apple Safari browser for Windows.
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.
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.
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From: land of the clanger
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.
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.
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From: Croydon (but really from Barnsley)
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.
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From: CYQT
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".
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From: Mackay, Australia
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.
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From: land of the clanger
Can anyone explain why pages on this site don't display correctly in Firefox?
Oddly it works in Safari though.
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From: Dublin, Ireland. (No, I just live here.)
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.
