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?

[celicast3sgte]

i even ditched safari on my MAC side of my macbook i run mozilla on both sides. keeps everything the same and i dont have issues like that unknown error. safari is good for web surfing and websites optimized for safari its amazing. but as soon as you get into buggy pages or high security logins. it chokes almost 50% of the time. when safari first came out it was doing better than mozilla or anything else was. then 2.0 came out. (talk about fixing a good thing until it breaks). thats my mouthful