Comments on: Dirty secret: I love Safari on Windows

It hasn't replaced Flock for me, but it's making inroads.

[AXG]

I downloaded Safari for Windows after reading about it on CNET. I do not like this browser. Some web sites worked slowly and refreshed in a funny manner. Second thing I miss is the presence of a drop down list of typed URLs in the address bar. Not impressed.

[josephfuentes]

Rafew

I too love Safari on Windows. I don't know what the stigma is. it's great and it's the fastest browser I have. (the second fastest is avant browser). It's beautiful looking too. As much as I love Winows and how powerful & rich it is, it could take a cue from Mac for its looks. Anyone agree?

[tstarn04]

I was toying with Safari 3.x and upgraded to 3.1, and I liked the speed. But it started to freeze up (XP machine) too often, and I don't like the color scheme. Hard to read on laptop. Back to Firefox, and might go out and get Firefox beta.

[acediac01]

I realize that this is about Safari on Windoze, but have you ever tried different browsers on other platforms? From my experience, if you take Firefox to Mac OS, Linux, or *BSD you have load times that are incredibly faster (both program and web pages). Perhaps the issue is not Firefox itself, but rather the Windoze API that Firefox is forced to interact with. I have also had decent luck with Opera on Windoze, however I do find that the program load time is a bit to long. As for IE, I have and always will avoid using it...

[shel66]

Go to...
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/

Camino does it all!

[jb4h]

Before you settle on Safari, try iRider. I know iRider is IE7 underneath, but the added advanced features of iRider make this browser worth it. Best of all is a tab system that really works instead of the crippled ones supplied with firefox, IE, and others. As many tabs as you want, plus pins to keep them in place. All of the IE7 addons work, even Roboform, which is far more than a password filler. Once the tabs are open, any speed advantage of Safari disappears for moving between sites. Just the tab system alone keeps me from going back.

[quipt]

I m using Opera 9.5 on Windows and Ubuntu and the when it comes to speed Opera is tops for me. I have used Apple Safari on Windows and I'll rate it ahead of Firefox and IE. But when it comes to the total package Opera despite its low market share is the Rolls Royce of browsers followed by Safari and the always dependable Firefox

[jerzeeshadow]

If you guys liked Safari on Windows, you're gonna love it on the iPhone! Go give it a whirl!!!!! :)

[g15host]

I think browsers of tomorrow will be like Linux distros of today. People will like different flavors for different reasons, mostly personal taste. And the browser as the platform like an OS is not far from reach. Safari did take some used to on Windoze. It could use some more shortcut keys, but i too find that the most I use it the more I like it, even the strange bookmark scheme. It's funny I only begin to use it when I started surfing lots of tech news, blogs, and forum type sites where lots of comments were anti-Apple, yet on those heavily scripted sites, Safari renders the pages more correctly and much faster than FF, IE, or Opera that used to be my 3 standards on XP.