A BIG SNOOZE
Apple yesterday made the Safari browser available to Windows users. I downloaded it to see if it lives up to the Mac-faithful’s hype. Not even close. As far as I can determine, in terms of usefulness it’s perhaps a bit better than IE6.
There are almost no plugins available. Hover over buttons doesn’t work. And clicking the scroll wheel does nothing. Most annoying of all, it takes 3 clicks in the URL window to highlight the entire URL. In FF and IE it’s a single click.
Mozilla and MSFT have nothing to fear from this one.
2 Responses to “A BIG SNOOZE”
 Comment by Tim Haas June 12th, 2007 at 9:59 am |
Beta, dude, beta. You’ll get one-click highlighting if you click on the favicon. A lot of the stuff I imagine you’d want plugins for — like inline spell-checking — are native to all Mac apps. I wonder how they plan to bring that kind functionality to the Windows version. I tried the Mac version last night — much faster than current Safari, but still not as fast as Camino. |
 Comment by COD June 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pm |
So when do I get my Linux version? |