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The Safari browser for Windows XP is just one of several apps that Apple produce for Windows, with the QuickTime media player the most notable other.
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That’s right – just as Microsoft make software for Apple computers, so their great rivals for many years supply Windows PCs with applications. Notable among these is Safari, from Apple.
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You probably use Internet Explorer or even Firefox to surf the web on your PC or laptop – but if you’re using Windows, there are a number of other browsers to choose from.
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But, should you want to download it, the Safari 3 public beta is available for download now (opens in new tab) from Apple's website for users of OSX, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.Enjoy the Web with the Safari Browser for Windows XP! Clearly, Safari isn't quite as clean and lean as Apple would like you to think.Īs we reported earlier today, it's also worth noting that several security flaws have already been discovered in the new browser. That compares with 26MB for Firefox and just 20MB for Internet Explorer. Following a clean boot, the Apple browser chewed up a quite staggering 33MB of memory to render a single page. And Safari comes in dead last in this particular metric. Our investigations of memory usage threw up some interesting numbers. Indeed, it's noticeably quicker than both IE7 and Firefox for several of the high density web pages we sampled.īut it's not all good news. However, there's no doubting Safari's page loading speed once the browser is up and running. However, .uk's powerful test machine and the influence of Vista's Superfetch technology probably mask any differences in initial load performance. Performance-wise, we tested load times on a Windows Vista-powered machine and found they were identical for all three browsers - nigh on instantaneous.


That's probably a bad decision for the Windows platform. As well as the aforementioned resizing issue, Apple has chosen not to support the back button for browsing. Still, there are a few seemingly avoidable annoyances for regular Windows users. In fairness, none of that is out of the ordinary for a beta build of a new application. There are also reports of installation issues cropping up regularly on enthusiast forums, though here at .uk, that side of things went smoothly.

Nice.īut what about performance and stability? We did discover a number of rendering issues, ranging from the occasional wonky or disappearing fonts to problems with javascript menus. Safari clever allows you to resize them within the actual webpage. The text boxes used for inputting forum posts or comments to blog and news post can often be rather cramped. Resizable text boxes are also a welcome innovation delivered by Safari. And as you cycle through the document, each example literally jumps off the page. For starters, all instances of a word or phrase are highlighted simultaneously. Mind you, it's something that both Firefox and Internet Explorer both offer, but the Safari implementation is so much better.
