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5 Nasty Things about Safari 3 on Windows Vista


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Posted 25 June 2007 - 12:52 AM

images/news/apple.jpgWell, the first and foremost reason why you should stay away from Safari 3 is the fact that the browser is a beta. Mozilla for example offers Gran Paradiso Alpha 5, a testing milestone for Firefox 3. But Mozilla has enough responsibility to advise users not to deploy Gran Paradiso Alpha 5 except in testing scenarios. Apple does not. Furthermore, the Cupertino-based company also praised the fact that a beta product, thus inherently full of bugs and vulnerabilities, was downloaded in excess of a million times.

Second, Safari 3 security is not what it was applauded to be. Instead of a browser secure from day one, Safari offered eight security vulnerabilities just on the first day. Apple then subsequently released an update patching three Critical security flaws in the browser. The graphical user interface is the third reason. Apple needs to fall in line. Developing a product for Windows Vista means offering a user interface designed to integrate seamlessly with the operating system's style, not an alien look after a forced transition from Mac OS X with clunky font rendering.

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 01:06 AM

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However, limiting user choice is an Apple trademark, after all, all you need is a single edition of the Mac OS X operating system, because it's simpler this way...

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 01:22 AM

Yeah, so far this has not been good publicity for Apple. I don't know what they were thinking. They should have released it to a few select third-party developers (iPhone developers) and then when all the bugs were worked out and it was a little better integrated into Windows, put up a public download.




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