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?

[BloodyStupidDave...]

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

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

It is buggy, but 3.0.1 seems a little better. I haven't noticed any problems with dual monitors but haven'treally used it much and I use Ultramon which might make a difference.

The one thing I like is that it is really fast, especially Javascript. Animations that look rubbish on IE or FF are really smooth on Sarafi and generally the Javascript engine feels faster. I also have some horrendous pages with huge numbers of tables (an internal webapp that monitors servers) and Safari is much happier rendering this than FF or IE.

But it is buggy. So far all the bugs and unstability I've seen seem to be Windows-specific but time will tell I guess. I use FF as my first preference for both Mac and Windows but have a number of browsers installed including older versions of IE so I can double-check usability and visual bugs for websites and webapps on which I work.

Having a Safari browser that runs on Windows will help me as it means I don't need to fire up the Mac so often (just to do final checks for bugs that only manifest in Safari for Mac). I like the Mac, but currently prefer it as a home OS than a work OS. I've mainly used Unix/Linux as my work OS in the past, so maybe I'll move over to Mac OS X for my work OS in the future.

This post has been edited by BloodyStupidDavey: Jun 17, 2007 - 2:42 PM