Safari on Windows...Anyone Else Using It? Options

[Coomer]

Is anyone else using the newly released Windows version of the Apple Safari web browser?

I downloaded it this morning, and I'm incredibly unhappy.

The first thing I noticed was that when I maximize the window on my second desktop (I have multiple monitors), the window gets lost. It still shows up in the taskbar, but I'm unable to see it or bring it back, so I'm stuck closing the browser and restarting it.

So when I restarted Safari, the factory bookmarks that I had just deleted magically re-appeared. So I had to delete them again, and now they don't seem to come back. Thought that was a bit odd.

And what's most annoying is that Safari fails when loading pages with an unknown error, like so:

Safari can’t open the page “http://127.0.0.1:85/members/coomer”. The error was: “unknown error” ((null):10053) Please choose Report Bugs to Apple from the Help menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.

Wow, now that's a helpful error message if I've ever seen one. I'm using it to test the new 6GC architecture/code, and it can't even load about one out of eight pages randomly from my web server on my local machine. If I type in the URL again, then it works.

Other than those problems, it seems to be nice. I wish it used the standard Windows UI design. But it's pretty quick, the rendering engine seems to work well, and it seems to be compatible with all of the new code I've been writing.

Anyone else using Safari on Windows? What's your experience been like?

[AMCMoe]

I've been using too it. I like the browser, but they definitely have some bugs to take care of. Which is expected since its only in beta form.

I've noticed sometimes when you have drop down boxes, it crashes if you do more than 2 or so. It's happened on 2 or 3 websites now. Like Tire Rack when selecting year, make, model.

Another thing I use all the time is Ctrl + Backsapce to delete a whole word at a time, and it doesn't work in Safari. It inserts an invisible character too, because when you push backspace it doesn't do anything the first time. If that makes sense..

It loads pages quickly, but the pictures aren't very fast to load for some reason. Like it only loads 1 or 2 at a time, whereas in Firefox you can set how many connections it has at once, so for broadband it loads pictures fast. I haven't been able to find anywhere to adjust that yet.

Other than those, I like the browser. Hopefully they'll be able to fix the bugs soon enough. Certainly not deleting Firefox or IE anytime soon though..