Apple Safari

Pobby

Just found this browser.Very impressed so far.Quick to load pages.


http://www.apple.com/safari/

totalsolutions

Yes very fast, although the text looks more blurry to me. Bland colours. Seems to have a spell checker as well. Must make macs look fast as well!!. Much faster than the beta IE8 I was running. Will try it for a week.

BillScarab

I tried a previous version and hated it. Have they improved the interface at all?

superscaper

BillScarab wrote: »

I tried a previous version and hated it. Have they improved the interface at all?

No. There's slight improvement but it's still so bad I couldn't bear to keep it installed. So just the usual IE, Opera and FF installed for me. I optimised it for my monitor but the text still looked blurry and strained my eyes. After using IE's cleartype it made me feel like I needed reading glasses. I think I'd already mentioned on another thread about it that although it has fast rendering it seems to sometimes get "stuck" between pages. Overall speed although improved since last version doesn't seem any faster than IE7 at all.

timbim_2

Feels faster than IE to me. In my opinion, it looks nicer and the spell check is nice. I also rate the bookmark changing interface very highly. Snap-back is also a good function. So far, I like it!

superscaper

Oh and the other thing was that it installed Apple Update even though I specifically chose not to. (makes the tick options moot). Installing things without permission is a big no-no in my book and in the past I've dropped all software from companies that did that with just one of their products.

superscaper

timbim wrote: »

Feels faster than IE to me.

Probably psychological. It seems to render artifacts as it gets them so you can "see" it loading (which has its advantages). Whereas IE tends to render all at once when it's finished downloading the artifacts. But I found the time to get complete/finished pages (cached and uncached) was about the same or sometimes a bit slower for Safari when it got particularly stuck switching fast between pages.

Conor_3

Pobby wrote: »

Just found this browser.Very impressed so far.Quick to load pages.


http://www.apple.com/safari/

You may not be so impressed to find out that there's a massive security hole in it that's not yet been patched.

http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/199844.html

"The most dangerous vulnerability could allow a maliciously structured website to "falsify the web address and enter another page or content." That would mean that you might see an expected URL in Safari's address bar but the actual source address might be different, potentially loading malicious code that could put your computer and data at risk.
The second vulnerability could be triggered by downloading a file with a very long filename, which could cause a buffer overflow condition possibly leading to memory corruption that might permit the execution of arbitrary code.
Web User reports that security firm Secunia has classified both of these fresh vulnerabilities as "highly critical" flaws, its second highest severity rating."

Paul_Herring

Conor wrote: »

http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/199844.html

Hmm -

The_Article wrote:

He described the most serious flaw as a vulnerability in the Safari browser for Windows 3.1 ...

Is the XP version ok?

superscaper

Paul_Herring wrote: »

Hmm - Is the XP version ok?

It is rather a poor naming convention. Would have been better to type "Safari 3.1 for Windows".

sra

Funny thing is appparantly you're not allowed to use Safari for Windows on Windows:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/apple_safari_eula_paradox/