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I have been a long time Firefox fan and have thoroughly enjoyed my experiences with it and the many extensions available to extend its uses. I started using Firefox back in the early days, maybe even prior to the 1.x release, on the Windows platform. I then used Firefox on FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, and now on my current favorite OS, Mac OS X. Again, I have been very happy with my Firefox experience, but now a new contender has entered the ring.
I have been doing a lot of Web development these days and have been testing my designs and applications in multiple Web browsers on multiple platforms. During this testing phase (QA), I have been using the most stable release of Apple’s Safari Web browser on Mac OS X. I have got to say that Safari is fast to load (firing up the application) and extremely quick at rendering Web related content. Needless to say, I have been very impressed with Safari in the little amount of time I have been using it on OS X.
A week or so ago (maybe it was longer), I noticed that Apple had released a public beta of its Safari web browser, version 3.0. This release was for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. That’s pretty impressive! Today, I finally got around to downloading the public beta of Safari for Windows and have been test driving it. So far, I’ve had some issues… Here’s the scoop.
On my box at work, I was able to install Safari but I was unable to launch it as an unprivileged user. Even if I used an administrator account to set the security permissions for the C:\Program Files\Safari\ folder, the application would still not launch. It would immediately throw up an error report for me to sen to Microsoft. I was able to launch it as an administrator, but not as an under privileged user. I assume there are some Registry Keys that need some sort of permissions changed for a normal user…
On my Windows box at home, I was able to install the browser and run it fine… Yes, I run as a local admin on my home Windows box. Bad in practice, I know, but I do it. I currently use the box all of about once a week.
But, here’s my gripe with Safari and my home box. I can run the application without a problem. I use dual monitors on my Windows box and from time to time choose to browse on the secondary monitor while something else is running on the primary. Guess what?! This works fine as long as I don’t maximize the Safari window on the secondary monitor. When I do maximize the window, the browser window disappears and I am only left with the remnants in my Windows Task Bar. I have to kill Safari and start over to get the browser window back. Strange, I know.
But, I’m not giving up. I am very impressed with the speed of Safari on my Mac, and will continue testing and working with Safari on Windows. If Safari has, or will have, community/vendor provided add-ons, similar to Mozilla applications, I may have just found myself another, faster web browser. I still have a lot of research and playing to do. I’ll keep you updated.
Until next time..
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:29 AM
UPDATE: I use dual monitors at work on my Windows box as well, and if I move the Safari browser to my secondary monitor and maximize it, it disappears there, too. Strange… I need to figure out how to submit a trouble report with Apple I guess…
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FromJune 27th, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Putty did the same thing to me yesterday. I was able to Alt-Tab to get the window back and it maximized fine the second time. YMMV!1
FromJune 27th, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Yeah, I’m not sure what is going on with Safari. I tried your Alt-Tab trick this evening and it still didn’t work correctly… Hmmm…
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