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Safari on Windows?

Wednesday, 13. June 2007, 19:02:26

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Anyone who follows the wacky world of browser news has surely heard about Apple's decision to bring Safari to Windows. As someone who is routinely asked by people what the differences are between browsers, I of course downloaded the Safari beta and tried it out. It was kind of rough around the edges to say the least, but it's their first beta on any entirely new platform, so I'm not here to criticize. I'm actually here to point to David Storey's really insightful blog post talking about the situation: http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2007/06/12/hello-safari-lets-catch-a-wave

As Opera's Chief Web Opener, David has a nice big-picture perspective that we should all benefit from.

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For a more detailed examination of Apple's benchmarking procedures, see the following post: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html
(written by my colleague, Mark "Tarquin" Wilton-Jones)

By Lawmune, # 14. June 2007, 18:49:56

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Apple's benchmarks were stated to be done on the Macintosh and not Windows where Tarquin tested it. Opera is much slower on the Macintosh than it is on Windows or Linux while Safari is faster on the Mac than it is on Windows by quite a bit on average. I ran my own tests. I didn't get exactly the same results as Apple, but similar ones. In some cases Safari choked on the content and displayed the content the slowest. It fluctuated, but on average my results were very similar to Apple's findings.

Opera on the Macintosh is one of the slowest browsers available on that platform and has been since Opera started development again for the Macintosh back with 7. I have hopes that it will gather some energy and come out with fists flying with Kestrel and most certainly Peregrine.

By Khadgar, # 16. June 2007, 19:38:46

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Strange, I've always found Opera on my wife's Macbook to be really speedy and nice, but I never did an extensive comparison either.

By Lawmune, # 18. June 2007, 08:31:10

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safari on windows really crash :down:
better wait for the next beta, I guess.

Opera user here BTW

By pfelelep, # 23. June 2007, 16:17:45

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I tried Safari on Windows and didn't like it.

It is true, Opera is really slow on the MaC, it seems to consume a lot of resources!

And regarding your poll, YES, i'd like to work for Opera... I want Espenao's job! (to read blogs for a living)

By eztigma, # 29. July 2007, 02:52:39

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