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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: November 15, 2007
- Total Downloads: 341,590
- Downloads last week: 4,550
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 520 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 3.04 public beta adds international text input methods, advanced text options, and LiveConnect support.
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Version 3.04 public beta adds international text input methods, advanced text options, and LiveConnect support.
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User reviews of Safari 3.0.4 public beta
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 520 votes
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Version: Safari 3.0.4 public beta
Pros: Many bugs in 3.0.3 have been fixed. Fast and secure. Simplicity leads to ease of use. You can travel through the Internet with confidence with Safari.
Cons: Sometimes a printout from Safari will not have some graphics from the printed page (e.g., this page). Still, customization is still not possible. Hopefully, customizations will be available once Safari for Windows finishes Beta testing.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.4 public beta
Pros: Very fast, probably because there are no bells or whistles. For a quick browse it's very good.
Cons: I like my bells and whistles, so will continue to use Firefox for general use. Would like a prettier skin, but I'm sure that will come.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.0.4 public beta
"It's a good browser,other than Opera,Safari is quite good."
Pros: Elegant Interface,fast web-browsing. Its much more stable than IE and Firefox.
Cons: Download speeds are just like Firefox
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Version: Safari 3.0.4 public beta
"not as fast as firefox but much faster then IE7"
Pros: faster then IE7
Dose not make google video downloads temp files
Cons: Takes up 49.0mb on your computer
Not as fast as firefox
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Version: Safari 3.0.4 public beta
"it's used last of IE, Foxfire, Flock and Safari"
Pros: The look
The way it shows the website uploading.
Cons: It take so long to start.
Videos don't come out like they should. Sometimes choppy. Forever to download to watch.
There's something missing but I can't put my finger on it.
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