Comments on: Apple Safari 3 Beta for Windows

By: sniptools

sniptools — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:41:59 +0000

Just uninstall and reinstall it. Let it update itself. It'll correct itself. Safari still doesn't match the convenience of Firefox or Opera on Windows (no plugins–hhmmpph!) but it's a nice way to test what your site etc may look like for many Mac users.

By: Zwan

Zwan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:51:25 +0000

I have the same problem with Safari 3.1. It just won't start after installation. I am on Windows XP. I saw the problem discussed here by many users

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447340&tstart=0

If you have any ideas to fix it please email me. Thank you.

By: sniptools

sniptools — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:06:52 +0000

Derick. My safari works now. Just keep installing Apple's auto updates and one fine day it will start to work. I have no clue when/why it started to work, but it did.

By: derick

derick — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:26:25 +0000

my install of safari is doing it exactly the same thing — been trawling trying to find out why the hell it's doing that, but got nowhere so far.… i'll check back here in case someone posts a solution.…

By: sniptools

sniptools — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:59:13 +0000

"To say itâ€™s bug-ridden and hard to install might be misleading though."

It is what it is. If a software cannot install and read my language properly, it is hardly misleading to call it bug-ridden. It's not hard to install at all, just confused and poorly programmed. At any rate, the speed of access of websites is hardly much to swoon at. Opera still takes the cake by far. Of course these are my experiences, on my Vaio with 2GB RAM and Core2Duo, which suggests to me that Opera knows how to make good use of the hardware without becoming a memory hog ala Firefox.

By: T Lawless

T Lawless — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:41:55 +0000

Don't know what happened, but I installed it first thing this morning without a hiccup. I said no to Quicktime and yes to Bonjour.

The visual interface is impressive — looks Mac like but I'm used to Firefox's settings. I could adapt to Safari but don't really have a reason too and that goes for running my Mac too.

To say it's bug-ridden and hard to install might be misleading though.

By: sniptools

sniptools — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:00:54 +0000

Hi, thanks for the info. (That was quick! Did you get here from downloadsquad?) I just read that the html rendering engine is a port of KHTML from Konqueror (KDE), which should be a fairly capable performer and at least some Mac-ish semblance of a browser, which would make web design testing useful anyway. But it would help to first get this stupid thing working on my machine!

By: rosfur

rosfur — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:54:37 +0000

Actually web developers may want to read the fine print before uncorking the champagne. The rendering engine inside Safari for PC is different from that on Macs.