Apple has released Safari for Windows. After getting setup file from Veetrag, I tried it yesterday on my work pc. Apple says it is world’s best browser even on windows. It says safari loads pages 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.6 times faster than Firefox ( firefox is still my fav browser inspite of so many unresolved bugs in it ).
But Safari 3 public beta did not turn up to my expectations.
The most serious potential con of it is: no proxy support. I am unable to change my proxy settings as that option is disabled. I am only able to open local intranet and no internet at all. Some say it captures proxy settings from IE but still its not working even after setting proxy correctly in IE.
Only two features I found interesting in safari are snapback and private browsing.
Snapback lets you to go back where u started. Like if u searched for particular in google and you go on clicking search result nestedly jumping from parent website to further another website; using snapback you can come back directly to main original search result page.
Private browsing enables you to browse anonymously. All your browsing activities and traces will not be captured under private browsing mode.
Safari for windows is still in beta version so we can’t expect much from it. Hope it soon provides support for changing proxy settings. Well lets wait and see…
