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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2008, 05:40:20 pm »
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Apple has decided to push users of Apple software into installing Safari by putting it in the iTunes updater. Whenever iTunes attempts to download an update, it will also attempt to install Safari! Not really caring, since the iTunes updater always fails for me anyway, I left it. In twenty minutes, I was surprised to see that iTunes failed the update, like always…but Safari had installed.
Deciding to check out the browser, I opened it up, noting that after installation, it had taken the liberty of placing shortcuts on my desktop and start menu, and an icon on the Quick Launch. The smooth, antialiased text was a nice turn from the ugly sharp text sported by Minefield, but the window design was so reminiscent of Mac OS X, and it really doesn’t fit the Vista layout.
I’ve never used Safari at all before, so interpret this as a review of Safari overall. Some nice features I’ve noticed are the smooth blue glow around the active control, so you know what textbox you’re typing into. Speaking of textboxes, Safari has a very good built-in spell checker. There is also a grammar checker, off by default, which can be turned on via Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Grammar With Spelling.
Textarea boxes can be resized like windows, which was a surprising, and neat, feature. However, like Minefield, Safari does not support SMF 2.0’s WYSIWYG post editor.
Safari is also a rather fast browser. Windows Task Manager shows that two tabs open in Minefield, the Google homepage and zConnection homepage use 55,364k of memory, whereas the same two tabs open in Safari take only 48,464k of memory. Big wow there! For further comparison, Internet Explorer 7 with the same tabs open uses 19,536k of memory - shockingly low, but not a surprise, seeing as the browser is very much integrated with the operating system.
You can download Safari for Windows from the Apple homepage. My view  ^^
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