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Safari Beta for Windows … definitely UNUSABLE !

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Safari 3.01 on OS X Tiger and on Windows XP (via Parallels desktop)

 

Yesterday and just after 48 hours since the free public beta of Safari was made available, Apple announced that more than 1 million copies of Apple’s browser for Windows were downloaded.

Not really astonishing since a lot of people were waiting to play with Safari on Richmond platform. And for many of us who use OS X and have to deal with Windows for certain tasks, the news was very exciting. In my case, I even posted the news on my blog to tease some of my friends… Windows users (nobody is perfect) before the end of S. J. keynote.

But after 48 hours of Safari’s zillion crashes, the disillusion is giant.

Safari for Windows is absolutely UNUSABLE, there’s no other word for it. It crashes everywhere. And when it doesn’t crash, the html renderer engine often skips entire blocks from pages. And As you can see in the video, even with Google search, the application consistently crashes when you try to type any request… can you believe it !

And what seems really amazing is that Safari (for windows) crashes not only while rendering pages, but it does also for the most elementary future you need from any web browser. Even after the 3.0.1 update, the simple fact to click on the « Show all bookmarks” crashes the application. Even alpha Software can’t be worse.

So, for more than 1 million copies that were downloaded after 48 hours, what a huge waste of bandwidth!

PS : Parallels desktop has definitely nothing to do with Safari crashes that you can see on the video. I first experienced Safari’s mess on XP runnig on an intel PC box. And I moved to my mac to make the video capture.

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June 15th, 2007 Posted by astrubal | Permalink | Tout le blog | 2 comments

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  1. Hi Astrubal

    Excellent demonstration! Especially coming from an Apple’s tools adept:) I hope that you not goanna be responsible for the suicide of a few Apple’s engineers :) )

    Best

    An imperfect person ;)

    Comment by Malek | June 16, 2007

  2. An old Apple adept, but not at any price :)

    For apple’s engineers, I really feel sorry for them, because I suppose that they have been under such pressure to release Windows Safari version to match the IPhone release timing.

    And you know what Malek … no need to laugh as S. Balmer would certainly have done it. Wait the next Safari release … :) :) And then I will really laugh about your IE Activex that are worse than bugs.

    And Yes … You are not perfect :) and my OS X Tiger rocks …!

    Comment by astrubal | June 17, 2007

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