Safari for Windows: Pt2

[eldar]

...or, why I won't be abandoning Firefox just yet.

• First, I don't like the way it renders pages. They don't quite look right. None of the font smoothing options are pleasing enough on my eye.


• Second, I can't double-click in the empty space by a tab to open a new tab.


• Third, it doesn't make use of the side buttons on my mouse for back/forward page browsing.


• Fourth, I'm not convinced by the skin (and there are no options to re-skin it). I happen to like my full-screen windows keeping the same skin as my Windows theme, unless I specifically say so. In other words, I don't mind apps such as WinAmp looking "different" because they're never full-screen. But a web browser usually gets run full-screen. Maybe I'm being picky.


• Fifth, there's no option to set the home page to a blank page.


• Sixth, whilst it does indeed import Firefox/IE bookmarks, it doesn't say so when it starts up (Firefox does) and it doesn't tell you where it put them.


• Seventh, the default toolbar buttons suck. Why isn't the 'Home' button there? (yeah yeah yeah I know, my home page is a blank page but only at home... at work for instance I have an intranet page as my home page)


• Eighth: And y'know what? It doesn't actually feel faster, despite the claims Apple are making about its start up time and rendering time.

Comments

[matgb]

K; I've changed the font to Verdana 14 pt, and turned smoothing to light, and that seems to be better, but oyu're right, fonts don't look right.

Didn't know you could do that anyway...

My mouse driver is horribly outdated, I've got used to not being able to

Agreed, too dark. I've reskinned Fx to be different in a small way, but not this much, and htecontrast is too low.

You can set it to start at a blank page though, which I've done.

Yeah, that confused me, but I found them quickly enough, and moved my important ones back to the main menu immediately

I have no idea what that little bug thing does. Ah, it's a bug reporter for the page. Um, why is that there? Give me a useful button damnit! (agreed)

It feels faster to me, but my home Fx is so overloaded that most things should.

Meh, I'll likely stick to Fx (it's a public beta anyway), but it's nice to have the option, and I'll definitely test in it now I can.

[harlotqueen.livejournal.com]

It uses the Konquorer (sp) engine (or at least it did)

[eldar.livejournal.com]

I'm all for delivering feedback where it needs to be seen though - so given that this is a public beta, I expect that somewhere Apple have a means of doing so.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* after a little play *

I don't mind the colours, but I don't like the big fat title bar, it feels like a waste of space.

* plays summore *

And the bookmarks thing is annoying.

And I'm USED to Firefox now...

Twill be useful for testy testy things, though.

[fearmeforiampink]

I'm a Mac user and even I don't like Safari. I find it to be the Mac version of IE - it's mac-esqueness manifests in being less offensive, and working better, but it's still overly simplistic, and not what I'd choose to use.

I use Camino on my mac, though that's largely a result of the fact that it's on the machines at University, it's less annoying than Safari, I don't want to install Opera every time I start up a machine, and it's easier to associate Camino with using Macs. As soon as I leave Uni though, it'll probably be Opera all the way.