Safari now available for Windows

Apple’s flagship web browser Safari is now available in a public beta. I’ve been itching to try this browser for a while and it was one of the reasons I was actually thinking of buying an Intel mac. It’s meant to be up to 2 times faster than IE 7 and 1.6 faster than FireFox (which can be a little slow sometimes). On first glance it seems pretty fast although it did seem to crash my laptop running Windows Xp Sp2. It’s still a beta at the moment so hopefully this won’t happen when the final release comes along. On a positive note I really like the smooth text rendering and it has all the great features of FireFox such as tabbed browing ( still alittle dark for my taste though), popup blocker, built in rss, security features etc. Wether it will tear me away from FireFox long term I don’t know as the extensibility of FireFox is unparreled at the moment.

Decide for yourself by downloading Safari via the link below.

http://www.apple.com/safari/