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Safari 3 Beta on Windows Review |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
I had time to evaluate Apple's Safari 3 public beta on Windows XP. I am not running Windows on Apple hardware. All I have to say is, do we really need another proprietary web browser?
Good Points:
1. The browser is very fast.
2. Automatically knows to prompt for proxy for external addresses and Windows passwords for internal addresses where the proxy needs bypassed.
3. Bonjour is somewhat cool. Read about it here .
4. Seems very stable.
Bad points:
1. Not Open source.
2. All passwords are sent in clear text!
3. No cool extensions or themes. You get what Apple gives you and it isn't much.
4. The window frame is exactly like it is on OS X. The window can only be resized by pulling the bottom right corner of the window. I do not understand how Apple finds this convenient and I find the window management on OS X to be the worst so why bring it to Windows?
5. No manual proxy bypass for local addresses! You must rely on the software to make the decision. 6. Six, too new so security could be a concern.
7. Although it is fast, it's not that much of a speed up from Opera, Kong, or Seamonkey to make me that excited.
8. No Linux version. All and all I was very unimpressed. The speed was the only good thing really. I'll stick with Firefox, Opera , or Seamonkey . Oh, and if you want to dump iTunes for something better get a copy of Songbird , the Firefox of iTunes! |