The Windows version is useful in that it’s possible to test Safari compatibility without needing to buy a Mac, but otherwise... it’s just another example of the manner in which Apple make some of the worst Windows programs in existence.

They insist on imposing the Mac GUI onto the Windows platform, and their intransigent use of “font smoothing” in the face of the masses telling them that it makes it impossible to read text... is just more evidence of the arrogant-ass “we know best” approach, that only works on Mac zealots.

...at downloading?? Umm... well, let's skip over that.

Fastest at graphical rendering - perhaps.

Lynx? (a text-mode browser - for those who only want to read stuff and not be bothered by ads or look at pr0n & youtube etc.)

Tried it and was impressed at first until I checked resources and found it to be using 320MB of ram. I'll be sticking with IE7 until IE8 is out thank you.

Which part of BETA do you not understand?

I'm a huge firefox proponent but jesus, saying FF3 is faster is like saying Windows 7 is faster (although we just know that's not going to happen)

Compared to the the current released versions of Firefox and IE, Safari 3 rocks! Test it using Google Maps, especially the satellite view, and you will be stunned at the difference. 

OTOH, I was less than pleased that it didn't automatically import my bookmarks from either FireFox nor Internet Explorer. Kind of basic, isn't it? Wait a minute, it did import from both, but I had to drill down some menus to find them, sigh.


The Firefox 3.0 Betas smoke Safari for everything including Javascript speed wise. The real news this week is on a mozilla blog on the memory management improvement in Firefox 3 :) I will give Safari for Windows one thing now I can make sure my website is compatible in all browsers including for people who don't like real computers :)
http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/
Inquirer Article on Firefox 3 Speed:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/13/firefox-wipes-rivals

Firefux? LOL

Opera smoke Safari, both Stable 9.26, and beta 9.50.

Funny how apple decide to ignore that.. Opera is also nicer to use too.

Opera is the fastest. Smallest memory footprint and most stable. I've crashed Safari but never Opera

How come they never compare to the ACTUAL fastest browser, (for a lonnng time) Opera?