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Timing can’t be better again, I just made a post on Apple’s simplicity on its iPod’s ads “Apple iPod Movies in your pocket campaign“, and from one of my subscribed feeds I was surprised to see Apple’s very own web browser Safari supports windows now. Wasting no time I was taken to a download page, figuring out that my pc had no Apple Quick Time, I chose to install Safari with Quick time. 28mb clean install made me happy and feeling proud to be a small apple user on a PC. Safari not only claims hog less memory than firefox on pc, but loads 2 times faster than IE, and 1.6 times faster than firefox.. And proved itself true. Pages load much faster than existing Mozilla Firefox 2.0.4.

Safari web browser on PC

 

 

Pros :

1. Simple look and feel (I feel so happy not to look at the blue bar on top).
2. Really Loads Faster than Firefox, and IE. (truly 1.6 times faster than firefox).
3. Supports Tab browsing (Nothing great now a days).
4. Firefox & IE 7 kind integrated Google search bar (can be customized to your favorite search).
5. Integrated RSS reader.
6. More Reading space compared to Firefox.

Cons:

1. When minimized and then maximized the browser restores down to a smaller window.. You need to click on maximize again to take over your whole screen.
2. Individual tabs have close buttons on its left, Windows users are habituated to right hand side. (I accidently closed the tab sitting beside what I wanted to close).]
3. RSS reader is shitty.. Unlike firefox allowing me to choose my favorite RSS reader (Google Reader in my case) Safari forces me to use only its RSS reader. Googling a little I figured out mac users had an option to choose their RSS reader.
4. There is no Undo close in the menu (I cant survive without that)
5. Not adaptable to Internet download Manager.

Good thing is its still in beta, so there is a large scope for apple to tailor according to Windows users.

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