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14 06 2007

Safari 3 beta on Windows vs. Firefox 2 and IE7

Posted by Alan in Technology

Here’s quite a nice article looking at the new release of Safari for Windows made by Apple the other week.

First look: Safari 3 beta on Windows vs. Firefox 2 and IE7

I’ll probably be sticking to Firefox, but its the kind of thing I might download out of curiousity.

Saying that, I installed iTunes ages ago and never warmed to it.

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  1. Euggs says:
    June 14, 2007 at 14:57

    iTunes r00lz…

    Seriously, though, I am a fan of it and do use it practically every day since we often have music on and we always use the PC since a) we enjoy a random shuffle of music and b) every CD player in the flat is broken!

    I’m tempted to try out Safari also as I’ve heard some good (and admittedly many bad) reports about it, but I think I may wait till a more stable version is made available!

  2. Alan says:
    June 14, 2007 at 15:42

    I tend to not use my PC as a music player, which I think makes a big difference. I just found with iTunes that I kept clicking things expecting something to happen and it frequently didn’t. I just found parts of the interface unintuitive.

    However, with me not owning an iPod, there’s not really much need for me to use it anyway. Creative Mediasource, which having a much more basic interface, does the job for me :-)

  3. Pie Man 70 says:
    June 15, 2007 at 9:07

    Kill Crush Destroy

    I don’t like to be proven correct, but my response to apple claiming OSX’s stability over windows has always been that its far easyer to code a stable stystem when the hardware is standard. Windows and Linux both have to adapt for such madness as a choice of processors, graphics cards, ect. It does look like they are wanting it to be a “Taste of Mac OS” but it clearly doesn’t beat Firefox in usibility and stability (I’ve even converted Iona to Firefox)

    Tried Thunderbird on the Laptop, its really good, may even switch from Outlook, only thing is, I bought office and Outlook is part of office, doI want to ditch something i paid money for?

  4. Alan says:
    June 15, 2007 at 9:21

    I use Thunderbird at home now, and I’m a big fan of it. Especially after that Plusnet webmail hack, the anti-spam functionality is a big bonus.

    I’d probably be more inclined to stick with the one I’d paid money for (out of stubourness more than anything else), unless there was a specific reason came up to ditch it though (anti-spam, security or whatever).

    There was an interesting editorial on ZDNet regarding this release of Safari for Windows that made a lot of sense to me. I’ll see if I can dig it out.

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