Apple today announced the Safari 3 public beta for Windows. I just want to run through some quick numbers of test I did on a Vista machine.
First test, New York Times. The favorite screen shot for apple.
NYT may be a favorite for apple and the results show. 3.11 seconds for Safari and 3.25 seconds for Firefox. Winner – Safari
Let’s try someone we know should not be in bed with Apple. Microsoft.com
4.40 seconds for Firefox and 4.15 seconds for Safari. Winner – Safari
On to popular tech sites… Digg.com
9.32 seconds for Firefox and 7.38 seconds for Safari. Winner – Safari
Last, what I always considered a beefy page… Yahoo.com
1.94 seconds for Firefox (not quite as beefy as I thought!) and 1.93 seconds for Safari. Winner again, Safari
In every test, Safari was marginaly quicker, except for Digg.com, all results were very close. However, the claims apple has made about Safari being quicker is, for the most part, true.
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It can be zippity in some pages, but in the age of broadband, who cares? On NYT, MSFT, YHOO, who cares if Apple wins with some nanoseconds?
*Ugly theme/buttons
*Ugly window buttons (minimize/maximize/restore/close)
*Clicking taskbar does not minimize it
*”You haven’t entered anything in Google box” Geez, maybe I just wanted to intuitively go to Google.com
*”great” Apple UI everywhere, for example, windows only resizable via bottom right.
*Click on a .wmv, it opens in WMP. In IE7 or FF, they give choice to download or open, and FF even lets me pref to automatically download
*Lack of favicons in bookmarks bar
*RSS button unstandard. IE and FF have come to truce with this
*no autoscroll
*middle click doesn’t close tabs, open tabs from bookmarks bar
*No “recently closed tabs”
*no status bar by default
*no inline spell check
*no double click tab bar to get new tab
*crashed twice already, FF crashes maybe once a week
*no adblocking
*no “google/yahoo search suggest”
*backspace doesn’t go back
*edit bookmarks name/address separately, huh?
John, I agree, there are some UI issues that need to be resolved. There buttons that mac users are used to are being placed on all web pages. The window interface needs to be changed to opperate correctly with Windows, I am used to resizing from anywhere on windows, but I am also used to only the bottom corner for mac, if it is on windows, it needs to be accesible from all sides.
i try safari but i have serius reendering problem:
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1517/wikipediaonsafarieh5.png
I viewed the same site with safari on Vista and it came up fine.
http://images5.fotki.com/v65/photos/2/22963/2836757/safarirendertest-vi.jpg
I love Safari!!! Safari is the best!!! Apple is so cool and great@!!!!