Gaius Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 It was just announced by Steve Jobs himself at his Keynote! 11:15AM - It's loading a ton of sites: 6.64 vs 13.56s Safari to IE. "But how are we going to distribute this? We don't really talk to these customers, do we? What are we gonna do? Well, it turns out there are 1m downloads of iTunes a day. Turns out there's been over half a billion downloads of iTunes to Windows... so there are three versions of Safari, one that runs on OS X, one that runs on XP, and one that runs on Vista... and we're releasing it today as a public beta to you. It's a free beta, apple.com/safari and who knows, maybe we can grow our Safari share in the future, we can sure try." http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/steve-j...from-wwdc-2007/ It looks like I finally found something that might get me to switch FROM Firefox. Discuss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGx89 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Yay, no more hunting down Mac users just so I can test my sites in Safari! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Davis Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 this should be interesting. I'm gonna try this soon as it's available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 Check apple.com/safari for the beta later today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I'm shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin8020 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Ok then... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I'm curious, how many mac users actually use Safari over Firefox? I was under the impression that it was sort of the IE of OS X where no one who knew better really used it. I'll give it a try, sure, but I don't hold out much hope. With how iTunes runs on Windows, I have no faith that Apple developers have suddenly learned how to develop Windows apps overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thertrain Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I don't think most Mac users use Firefox. Firefox is very clunky on the Mac. I personally use Camino. Depending on how quick Safari is on the PC, I may use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I'm curious, how many mac users actually use Safari over Firefox? I was under the impression that it was sort of the IE of OS X where no one who knew better really used it. Uh, not so much. Firefox is pretty crappy on OS X. Safari is the best IMO (with Camino and OmniWeb close behind). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laz45 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I use Safari on the Mac because Firefox is funky and looks horrible on OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Sorry, yeah, I meant Camino, not Firefox. I'm just too used to saying it. But How many people use Safari over Camino? I know in my short experience with OS X I very much disliked Safari over Camino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomZ Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 hmm I'm gonna have to give it a try. But in a way I hope it's not better than firefox, because I love my firefox <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?AK Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 this should be interesting. I'm gonna try this soon as it's available. It's already available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 When you think about it though, Safari has a lot going for it. I think a lot of people may switch to Safari from Firefox based on pure speed and simplicity alone, while the people who stay loyal to Firefox are going to be the zealots, and the people who can't live without Mozilla Add-Ons. If Apple can give me something like AdBlock Plus for Safari and give me a quicker, richer, more standards compliant web experience then Firefox 2, I'm switching. That won't happen soon, but you better believe the Firefox developers are switching gears right now because this new announcement may cut into their market share, forcing them to push Firefox 3 out the door sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted June 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted June 11, 2007 http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ Go get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Wow, hehe... But if it's like QuickTime or iTunes in performance and resource hogging Windows ports, I think I'll stick to Opera or at worst Firefox. But still, interesting... Time for another Windows browser roundup as a comparative review, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 forget that.. madden on mac :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 :| OH MY GOD! If everyone was not sleeping... I would of screamed! This is the best news yet!!! *DOWNLOADS* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted June 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted June 11, 2007 Using it now, GUI is a little slow (like quicktime/itunes). Not bad though. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted June 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted June 11, 2007 It's fast, font rendering is a bit iffy though. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Safari/522.11.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?AK Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I love the font rendering! However the browser itself is full of bugs.. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo_spook Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Sorry OT Clicked on the downloads link New designed apple site!!! is that how the new finder is going to look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted June 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted June 11, 2007 What the, is that the new apple page layout? Edit: WHAT THE, IT IS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Longest.Install.Ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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