Something a lot of us have been expecting for a long time- and such a greater way to gain some marketshare too. They’ve also released Safari v3 for Mac OS X.
It’s currently beta and can of course be fetched from the Apple website. It contains everything the OS X release does and the blazingly fast WebKit rendering engine.. oh my.
If you have problems installing it on Vista, you may need to open an elevated command prompt (Right click > Run as Administrator) and type the following:
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
It seems the Install Shield installer isn’t corectly detecting some of the Windows components.
Comments
musicalmidget (June 12th, 2007, 10:40 am)
Just downloaded and installed Safari now. Looks very nice indeed. I’m sure I’ll have fun playing with it for a while.
Good job you posted this. I might not have found out about the release for quite some time if not.
Tikitiki (June 12th, 2007, 2:03 pm)
I definitely like it
alephresh (June 13th, 2007, 2:27 am)
Well, the Windows beta fails miserably. Hangs, crazy resource usage, alienated/slow/buggy GUI, weird text rendering… Apple could learn a thing or two about cross-platform-ness from Mozilla or Opera. Also, Opera is far more configurable and customizable. How is this the best browser in the world?
Anyway, though I like Apple, I’m not crazy about the whole idea of Safari. They adhere to Web standards, so why not support Mozilla like Google does? I think this segmentation of good browsers and layout engines (Mozilla/Apple/Opera) just makes it harder to compete with the IE monopoly. (The same thing can be said about the plethora of Linux distributions.)
.Lou (June 14th, 2007, 3:31 am)
There’s so many people that are bashing it, simply because it’s an Apple product. Personally, I think it looks really good and works quite well considering it’s beta. In my opinion, it’s already more stable than Windows Live Messenger. One thing though, I think it uses too much ram.
alephresh (June 18th, 2007, 3:29 pm)
Hmm, I was a bit tired when I wrote my first comment. I guess it’s not that bad. People seem to like it and stuff. I guess it’s really not optimized for old PCs, so that makes my experience very bad. (I’m actually using a 633 MHz Celeron with 256 MiB SDR… :P)
But it does hang each time I visit http://www.ynet.co.il/ (for example), so I wouldn’t say it’s more stable than WL Messenger… Oh, and it shows Hebrew page titles backwards. It just doesn’t seem ready for public beta.
Dennis (June 27th, 2007, 11:46 am)
I installed it and I use it more often than Firefox now
David (September 30th, 2007, 7:31 am)
Seems decent, though they have a decent ways to go on it. And the font smoothing honestly makes my eyes burn. You can turn it on Light but not off. I prefer not to have all my text blurred and painful to focus on. Perhaps it’s just a rendering issue, I don’t know, but I can’t work with a browser that does requires the font to be like that.