Safari for Windows

[EricG1793]

I was browsing Apple.com to laugh at their newest "breakthrough" ideas and I came across Safari for Windows. I decided to download it; I know that if Macs themselves are so slow for everything that Safari may just be good on my HP. So I downloaded it and instaled it. Surprisingly there weren't any Vista conflicts with it. Just as Apple says, it is even faster than FireFox! I had always thought that FireFox was the fastest, most stable browser out there. But Safari is SOOOOOO fast! Safari REALLY makes IE look horrible. Well, this fastness just shows that Mac OS is horribly slow and the hardware isn't as good quality. Safari is a very good browser; it's unfortunate that Macs had been giving it a bad name. However with Windows, it's blazing fast.

It does have a few issues with minimizing/maximizing/sizing. However this is only the Beta 3; I'm sure they will fix these problems. When you first open Safari, it opens so the browser takes up the entire screen. That's great; you get even more web page viewing space than FireFox. However, it cancels out the taskbar, which I have docked to the left of the screen and on auto-hide. So I have to minimize Safari to get to whatever I need to access on the taskbar. And when I maximize Safari again, the window only takes up about a third of the screen, centerized. However now I can access the taskbar, but the browser is small and so is my viewing capacity. Also there is no button for the home page; there's stop/refresh, forward, back, add to favorites, and report a bug to Apple (for specific websites, not for Safari itself.) The buttons look very bleak; but that's just Apple's way. They're not colorful, but they do look nice and metallic so when you are looking right at them they are pleasant to the eye. When you're focusing on the page, a bunch of different buttons and different colors don't distract you, as on IE.

The only things that are majorly wrong with Safari are the minimizing/maximizing/taskbar issue and the lack of a home button. Otherwise it's extremely fast and has a nice interface.

Oh, I forgot to mention that it doesn't have a built-in spell checker like FireFox does. So I'm making this post right now without a spell-checker, so if any of you had any doubts about my spelling and just thought that I had been using FireFox's spell checker to correct my mistakes, you're wrong!

[drhowarddrfine]

I know that if Macs themselves are so slow for everything

Do you just make this stuff up on your own?

Well, this fastness just shows that Mac OS is horribly slow and the hardware isn't as good quality.

Yep, I guess so.

[LeeU]

Instead of opening new threads, there is already a discussion of this going on in this thread. I'll close this one.