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safari for PC????
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EXTREMEoverclocker
PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:58 pm Reply with quote

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i just found this ... the safari browser for PC .... i updated my quicktime and stuff and guess i wasnt paying attention and ended up getting this too haha ...

its the mac web browser for the ones who dont know ...

my question is ... how safe is it?
safer than IE or firefox?

just curious cause im on it right now just trying it out ...

any ideas ... or thoughts? .... or even better, stats about it thumbsup
 
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imnuts
PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:11 am Reply with quote

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I'd trust IE7/8 ahead of Safari as far as security goes. I don't care if it is 200ms faster at rendering a page, as far as I'm concerned, most stuff coming from Apple are like swiss cheese, full of holes. They've been releasing more and more patches and fixes since coming into the mass market, though no one ever hears about it cause "Macs are safer and more secure..."
 
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EXTREMEoverclocker
PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:38 pm Reply with quote

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ya thats what i was thinkin ....
it also has a few bugs in it still and crashes on me a lot
 
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Larry Richman
PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:58 pm Reply with quote

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I just got an automatic update from Apple Software Downloads to install Safari on my Vista PC. I figured, why not?

Thoughts? I haven't tried it yet.
 
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Julian Lord
PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:18 pm Reply with quote

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I don't like the fact that Apple Update wants to keep on automatically installing new junkware on my PC, and being noisy and focus-stealing as well, and I am far happier now that I have deactivated it <g>
 
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:29 pm Reply with quote

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Along with the above, Safari is ugly. I grabbed the PC version last year and was totally unimpressed! It got uninstalled within a day.
 
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Larry Richman
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JabbaPapa wrote:
I don't like the fact that Apple Update wants to keep on automatically installing new junkware on my PC, and being noisy and focus-stealing as well, and I am far happier now that I have deactivated it <g>

Oh, I only allow it because it's Vista on my test PC, so I need it to see how things work with Vista. I don't have it on my primary PC or laptop.
augie wrote:
Along with the above, Safari is ugly. I grabbed the PC version last year and was totally unimpressed! It got uninstalled within a day.

Okay, thanks. I was just curious so I installed it.
 
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Julian Lord
PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:29 pm Reply with quote

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Oh, you are running Vista on your test PC -- cool thumbsup

Did you manage to get the slipstreamed SP1, or did you do an upgrade with the standalone KB file ?
 
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Larry Richman
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JabbaPapa wrote:
Oh, you are running Vista on your test PC -- cool thumbsup

Did you manage to get the slipstreamed SP1, or did you do an upgrade with the standalone KB file ?

I did the upgrade. smilenod

My primary OS's are still X64 on my AMD64 and XP on my laptop.
 
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EXTREMEoverclocker
PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:24 pm Reply with quote

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yep plus if you use it for awhile it will crash on you ... i surfed the net testing it out for about an hour and crashed 3 or 4 times ...
 
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