Apple Safari to be released for the Windows Platform!


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I guess only more than 2 button mice exist on mars?

Cause Safari won't do page forward and back with side mouse buttons.

Apple can do no wrong.

3. Middle-mouse clicks open new tabs for me.

I love this (currently typing in Safari, WinXP). Started up pretty fast, and loads sites pretty fast. Looks like I'm ditching Firefox as soon as this thing is officially released :D

Edit: After messing around with it, I switched the font smoothing to light, and pages look way better. I'm loving this too much :D

Edited by MGS3-SS
I love this (currently typing in Safari, WinXP). Started up pretty fast, and loads sites pretty fast. Looks like I'm ditching Firefox as soon as this thing is officially released :D
Sites actually load slower for me :\ at least neowin loads significantly slower in Safari than in FF
I thought Apple were a hardware company first and foremost... this move doesn't suggest that.

This move really doesn't say anything about that at all. If they were to release OS X for any general PC, then they would no longer be a hardware company primarily.

I thought Apple were a hardware company first and foremost... this move doesn't suggest that.

They are. Like that other dude said, they're releasing Safari for Windows so that more people can develop widget/apps for iPhone (hardware). So, yeah, they're sneakily supporting iPhone through Safari for Winders.

I'm surprised to hear so many of these problems. Got it right as the page was being updated and installed it on XP. Font rendering is nice, pages load very fast (faster than IE and Firefox), and all mouse buttons work (back, forward, middle-click for tabs) on my Logitch MX500. The inline search is nice, and all sites that I've been to work perfectly (MySpace, Youtube, CNN, Neowin, and more). I wonder why garbled text appears for some people.

So far i like Safari alot more so then IE and FF..

Safari for me is using alot less memory then FF

Doing google searches are alot faster

Just normal website rendering is alot faster..

The only thing that gets me is the font rendering and it being all grey, but like everything it takes a little time getting use to..

Oh and one more thing that bugs me.. I can use my side mouse buttons to go forwar or backwards on websites..

An for those people who want to select the url in the addressbar have u ever thought about just double clicking to select the url? It's alot faster then putting your curser in the bar and use the hotkey to select the text...

Edit: There is one BIG BIG BUG in safari.. Open up a link in a new window and drag that new window over to your second monitor and you'll notice that it'll get hidden but still opened in your taskbar..

Edited by Sn4k36
Ok it's nice. I will admit that. Question though...How can I select the text on a page and drag and drop it? I can only highlight text and thats it. hmm.

Works for me - just highlighted your sentence and dropped it into Word 2007 - didn't work for Notepad, though. Too bad you can't make text clips like on OSX.

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I did seem to render pages faster than IE7 for me but now its about the same (even slower on somepages) looking at non-flash pages that are not in IE7's history and cache for a fair comparison. I even closed and reopened it and no big diffrence in speed now. Ill still wait to see what it can really do when it goes final because I hear really good things about it from Mac users.

How can I import my IE bookmarks into Safari?

I thought Apple were a hardware company first and foremost... this move doesn't suggest that.

They make there money from hardware, considering they have been making Operating Systems for a long time now and apps for there OSs so they are obviously software also.

Also everyone is saying it uses huge memory in Windows, with 3 tabs open under OS X only using 48MB. iTunes has always worked better in OS X then Windows and that seems to be the same in this case. Hopefully by the time the official release is out they have it more optimized for Windows.

I still haven't tried it on Windows but I see from all the problems people are having I can see it's not perfect. I will be installing it on Windows tonight.

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