Safari for Windows Top 1 Million in 48 Hours
Apple announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday. Safari 3 is the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use browser, and is available as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Safari 3 is the fastest browser running on Windows, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2, based on the industry standard iBench tests. Safari 3 supports all modern Internet standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and Java. Safari updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple’s Software Update, and the first update for Safari for Windows Public Beta which fixes some early reported bugs was released last night.
Safari 3 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256 MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. Testing conducted on an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM. The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.
Source: Apple
Comments(31)
world fastest browser, eh? don’t think it matches opera for speed…
the only the impressive thing about safari is the number of bugs
Doesn’t work at all, tried it on XP and Vista and it crashed all the time.
Apple really messed up this time.
funny how they didn’t mention Opera at all in the article..
yes,its keep crashing the whole goddamn time
What’s impressive is how Apple only has to fart and it’s front page news.
i agree with you for 200% ls!!!
sigh…Yet another browser to check for proper rendering when developping sites, and no doubts with it’s own little oddities that will again render the job a bit more difficult.
As if crossbrowsing with the various IE versions / FF / opera /Safari Mac/ Camino was not enough already.
if you want to compare the speeds etc – look here
http://www.apple.com/safari/
having these crashes too, mainly when I’m trying to manage the bookmarks… really gubby this thing.
I searched a bit around, but couldn’t find anything. Can you get this mentioned iBench anywhere?
IMHO is the firefox still faster, but it would be nice, to benchmark yourself (like jobs said in the keynote: everyone could do it).
OMFG, The BETA version crashes!!! Come on people, it’s not the final version, so yes it will have some bugs. Think about the Beta version of Vista, hell, even the final version of Vista has bugs. Give them some time to work on it, and I’m sure it will be a top competitor.
I’m a firefox user now, but I’ll give safari a chance once it’s working smoothly. It loads pages faster, what more could you want from a browser?
agree with Patrick
@ Cinek (staff)
If you want to compare speeds, don’t go to Apple’s website, duh! Of course they’ll say they’re the fastest on the market…
Quite biased, don’t you think?
Wow, what a shit biased article. How dare they purposely not include or mention opera in their article. That means, THEY don’t want you to know that opera is in fact better.
great! One more overhyped Apple product.
@ patrick: a operating system is a bit more difficult to devellop than an ordinary browser!
@ Mr. X: agreed
the graphs @ http://www.apple.com/safari/ are so big fat bullshit!!!!
I dont know about you almost everybody guys, but on my Laptop 1,5 Ghz 768 mb ram it was running absolutely fantastic and it is very fast so far. i tested it as well on my dual core machine, as well impressive results. Good product from Apple so far. Just wait till Final version
I wasn’t trying to compare an OS to a browser, just trying to remind people what ‘beta’ means. I used to have a lot of problems with the beta versions of firefox too, but people are more familiar with vista’s beta.
It doesn’t matter if Safari’s going to be the best browser or not, the point is that now IE and Firefox will try to meet/exceed the speeds Safari gets. Competition is a good thing.
With all these crashes it should be labeled alpha IMO.
ok, just installed it…Releaselog loads well =)
But Safari crashes as soon as i try to add a new bootmark, and if i press the “+” button between the spider and reload buttons, pffff… -_-
Also it seems that the anti-aliasing can’t be turned off, don’t know why :p
Uninstalling right now.
Here’s a great video of Jobs introducing Safari: http://thenewsroom.com/details/394435?c_id=wom-bc-js
is this the crappiest browser i’ve ever tried or what?
ho… and it has no WMP10 integration… who would’ve thought that hum?
LOL man they advertise that this is the “Worlds best browser” It is the worst. Ugly interface to.
Thats so true Modsiw. Opera FTW!
-Apple is lame
1 million downloads, 990 000 uninstalls.
So far I’ve been able to find a few differences between FF and Safari…
#1 Safari is antialiased. This is cool, I like my games AA, I like other crap AA. The more AA the better. Microsoft’s AA is not bad as well.
#2 No extensions on Safari!!! FF FTW.
#3 I keep getting some crappy popup, your machine may be infected shit that seems to be a RLSLOG advertiser that uses FAKE ASS Windows error messages… http://www.drivecleaner.com/.freeware/index.php?p=37&ax=0&ex=1&link=intl&ad=moveborn_rdt_us_en_ed2&aff= For some reason the Safari popup blocker does not stop this. I don’t use XP’s “Fischer Price” theme so it’s always easy to tell…
#4 Here’s an actual bug: When the DriveCleaner crap pops up, there’s some javascript that resizes the window. Safari doesn’t seem to know that the window is no longer maximized.
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Safari 3.0.1 (522.12.2), XP Pro SP2 (Mildly Tweaked), 1GB DDR2, Core2 E6400, Cox Premium.
Pages on either browser load fast enough on this machine that it’s basically impossible to tell which is faster…
I have not pushed the browser seriously hard yet, but I plan on doing so later. I’ve not opened more than about 50 tabs at a time.
The browser has already been updated once. If you’re not running the newest release and still bitching, you’re stupid.
I don’t know about Vista, since I only run it for the educational experience, but I’ve had no major instability with either browser. I do get FF crashes from time to time if I have more than 80 or so tabs open. Certain sites tend to crash FF, I need to see how good they are at taking Safari down.
Personally I think Vista is the most annoying OS I’ve ever dealt with (and that’s alot) but I don’t make shit up, or complain when it’s my box that’s somehow configured badly.
apple blows
So judging by these posts apple have done it again and its moldy with a worm stuck in it.. thanks for the heads up guyz