I never thought I’d say goodbye to my once-loved Firefox, but when Apple released Safari 3, which works on Windows, which is also reported to be 2x faster than Internet Explorer, and faster than Firefox, I had no other choice!
Sorry about the lack of updates, been crazily busy lately (and you’ll soon see the fruits of my labour).. but today I am so excited about all the new stuff from Apple!
Note: Although I said “Windows”, I refrain from using it as much as possible nowerdays. I love our Mac!
It can be zippity in some pages, but in the age of broadband, who cares?
*Ugly theme/buttons
*Ugly window buttons (minimize/maximize/restore/close)
*Clicking taskbar does not minimize it
*”You haven’t entered anything in Google box” Geez, maybe I just wanted to intuitively go to Google.com
*”great” Apple UI everywhere, for example, windows only resizable via bottom right.
*Click on a .wmv, it opens in WMP. In IE7 or FF, they give choice to download or open, and FF even lets me pref to automatically download
*Lack of favicons in bookmarks bar
*RSS button unstandard. IE and FF have come to truce with this
*no autoscroll
*middle click doesn’t close tabs, open tabs from bookmarks bar
*No “recently closed tabs”
*no status bar by default
*no inline spell check
*no double click tab bar to get new tab
*crashed twice already, FF crashes maybe once a week
*no adblocking
*no “google/yahoo search suggest”
*backspace doesn’t go back
*edit bookmarks name/address separately, huh?
The new Safari is cool and it’s great there’s a Windows version now… but it’s still missing some basic stuff, like ad-blocking, customising the search box and that annoying thing where it always opens stuff in new windows instead of tabs!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070612-afirst-look-safari-3-on-windows.html
http://www.betanews.com/article/Day_One_for_Safari_for_Windows_Becomes_ZeroDay_Nightmare/1181661606
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