Apple Safari for Windows
After getting used to, and eventually attached to Apple’s iTunes application, I was excited to give Safari a spin. And, since Apple has had prompts popping up on my screen lately, I thought now would be as good a time as any to try it out. Safari, for those of you unaware, is a web browser.
The damn thing wont even load it’s default start page in less than a whole minute, and other sites such as the popular MySpace and Facebook were considerably worse! That’s just sad. Apple software has often frustrated me in it’s usability, but I generally write that off as being a devout Windows user, and used to that interface. But web browsers all basically work the same. No excuses here Steve, this is just bad.
I recommend ignoring the prompts if you have Apple Updater installed on your system, and I certainly encourage you to avoid seeking it out on your own. I’ll keep an eye on it, and if it gets better, and becomes a viable alternative to Internet Explorer or Firefox, I’ll let you know.
–Jeremy Hobbs
March 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
On this Linux box, I use Firefox for the extensions that make the web so much nicer. I also use Opera for speed and compatibility when I have issues in Firefox (Hotmail, I’m looking at you).
The benchmarks with Safari have been horrible. I definitely agree with your review.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Hotmail works great with FireFox for me… only site that gives me trouble is http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
crashes every time.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:28 am
I’m a long-time Mac user and I hesitate to use Safari.
Apple should know better than to force the Mac UI philosophy onto Windows users. Mac UI is great on a Mac.
After all these years, there are still some major rendering as well as incompatibility issues.
I would never recommend that anyone use Safari.
When anyone asks which browser to use, it’s Firefox all the way…
March 29th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Thanks Wayne… Glad being a Mac user hasn’t turned you into a fan-boy