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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: June 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 341,590
- Downloads last week: 4,550
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 518 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Apple has published a Windows version of their native browser. No, the sky has not fallen and we have yet to see the spontaneous evolution of avian bacon.
What we do have is a major software publisher porting their once mono-platform browser with strong results. Much like iTunes, the Windows version of the Mac application works fine but lacks a certain tightness. It feels unfinished because it is.
Safari lacks most customization features. Skins and other aesthetic options exist in the Mac version, but not here. Hopefully that feature will come later. Just about the only thing you can alter is the font. Toolbar icons can be swapped, but the Customize option is only accessible from the Menu bar. If you like right-clicking your way to a shapelier browser, Safari's going to make you feel fat and ugly.
Safari does load pages quickly and didn't have any problems rendering Flash, although it crashed several times on Vista while processing Java. It's a memory sink, too, sometimes using three times as much RAM as Firefox when more than a couple tabs were opened. Tab sessions are savable--well, they would be savable, if the Reopen All Windows option under History worked. The built-in Roboform is buggy, and although there are plenty of extensions for the Mac Safari, that functionality hasn't been ported over.
Having a Safari engine to work with is a great boon for developers. For the average user, though, we'd recommend taking your browser hunt to more familiar grounds.
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Publisher's description
From Apple :With a simple, elegant interface, the Safari browser gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the Web. Features include: fast performance; an elegant user interface, easy bookmarks, pop-up Blocking, inline find, tabbed browsing, SnapBack, automatic form filling, built-in RSS, resizable text fields, private browsing, and security.
Version 3.02 public beta is a security update.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.02 public beta is a security update.
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User reviews of Safari 3.0.2 public beta
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 518 votes
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.2 public beta
Pros: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooothing...
Cons: Oh my god !!, this web browser makes me laugh everyday for a one reason...Apple is sucks and them browser is sucks..no wonder we prefer FireFox and IE..
FireFox is better and faster, IE is the master and Safari is worst...
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.2 public beta
Pros: Only a beta, so perhaps it might get better.
Cons: Even IE is still better than Safari, FireFox is better than IE because it's more secure, and Safari still sometimes crashes.
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2 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.2 public beta
"Buggy and not particularly fast"
Pros: Pleasant, Mac style interface, intuitive, logical layout.
Cons: Very buggy, much more like an alpha release than a beta. Some menu items just fail to work, others cause long freezes. Resizing is a nightmare, slow and jerky, and rendering goes silly during the process. In fact rendering is another issue - real problems with Gmail, Blogger, most Web 2.0 apps in fact. Not even especially fast, despite the claims - not much faster starting than Firefox, slower to open tabs - very much slower overall than Avant Browser.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.2 public beta
Pros: It's the fastest browser I ever used and fairly user friendly. Much faster than FireFox.
The interface "looks" is a matter of taste but I like it very much.
It not (over)loaded with functionality like IE or FF but remember it's still a beta version.
I say: Give it a change.
Cons: I found nothing to dislike so far.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.2 public beta
Pros: Great UI. really stable best browser I have ever used.
Cons: I know it is a beta but it relly does have a lot of issues still with certian websites like Microsoft Update and AOL mail.
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