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Downloads:
341,590
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
March 18, 2008
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Publisher's description of Safari 3.1
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 3.1 adds support for new Web standards such as HTML 5 audio and video tags and improves browser speed.
Editor's review of Safari 3.1
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- "End your browser hunt"
- Version reviewed: Safari 3.1
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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User reviews of Safari 3.1
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 496 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.1
Pros: Opera is the best and free
Cons: Batter solution for speed is DPERA
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Version: Safari 3.1
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.1
Pros: When it works it's fast.
Cons: The first thing I did was go to my favorite website and get an "unsupported web client" screen.
Oh well.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.1
"Pages Look nicer but one major annoyance"
Pros: I noticed that some sites I visit regularly look much better than in IE7, and the text looks better than in Firefox. This looks so much nicer that it is enough to make me want to use it.
Cons: 1) extremely slow initial program startup time.
2) this insane POP-UP that tries to FORCE you to install Macromedia Shockwave or Flash. You can't ignore it because you can't continue. And with a site like facebook, it will pop-up and block you every 3rd-4th page load approximately. very annoying. arent the people at apple aware that some of us block these thins because it is used only for advertising banners anyways? are these guys amateurs looking at the pretty colors and designs but not actually putting any thought into this? I say that because you can't even disable the nagging pop-up warning message!
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari 3.1
"Apple does it again for Windows"
Pros: Well, it does have a fast page load time (bout the same as Opera)
Cons: For me it takes longer to load Safari than Firefox2.
Customization is not there.
Ties up alot of system resources (just like Itunes, hence the title of review)
Security holes everywhere. I just cant trust it, I only went to sites I knew to be safe with this browser.
Uninstall was horrible. Glad I used Revo Uninstaller, Safari left alot behind that Revo caught and deleted.
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