Safari on Windows
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Umm. okay what an interesting experience.
On monday, Jobs announced Safari for windows. I was like "Oh! Cool" went over to apple.com/safari and downloaded the client. used it for about 20 minutes. Jobs said that Safari was like 1.8+ x faster than firefox and 4.8x than internet explorer. Okay Jobs how accurate are your stats when it took like 2 minutes to load the browser in the first place. then you click twice and it crashed. loaded it again to try again. it loads start page in like 2 minutes: WOW! no let's go to facebook... hmm pretty slow ... I open up firefox open up a few tabs and i get better time, mind you I didn't delete cookies and cache but still. Safari crashed on me a few times. So I said to myself, screw this ... i am happy with FF, no point switching to Safari. I understand that Safari is still a Beta but the Firefox beta was much smoother and faster. I am really not impressed with Apple on this one.
Conclusion: Installed and uninstalled in 20 minutes. I think Safari on Windows only works well if you have certain specs.
P.S. I am not the only Windows user who thought this was a load of shit.
On monday, Jobs announced Safari for windows. I was like "Oh! Cool" went over to apple.com/safari and downloaded the client. used it for about 20 minutes. Jobs said that Safari was like 1.8+ x faster than firefox and 4.8x than internet explorer. Okay Jobs how accurate are your stats when it took like 2 minutes to load the browser in the first place. then you click twice and it crashed. loaded it again to try again. it loads start page in like 2 minutes: WOW! no let's go to facebook... hmm pretty slow ... I open up firefox open up a few tabs and i get better time, mind you I didn't delete cookies and cache but still. Safari crashed on me a few times. So I said to myself, screw this ... i am happy with FF, no point switching to Safari. I understand that Safari is still a Beta but the Firefox beta was much smoother and faster. I am really not impressed with Apple on this one.
Conclusion: Installed and uninstalled in 20 minutes. I think Safari on Windows only works well if you have certain specs.
P.S. I am not the only Windows user who thought this was a load of shit.
