Safari on Windows

Leopard’s Safari on Windows? Really puts the cat among the foxes. :-)

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on June 12, 2007 at 05:16, filed under Uncategorized and tagged desktop. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

9 Comments

  1. Markus
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 05:34 | Permalink

    Sweet now we can use Safari on Linux (Wine) :D

  2. Derek Buranen
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 06:39 | Permalink

    For a follow-up to Markus’ comment. No such luck in wine.

    My screencast for proof: http://buranen.info/?p=137

  3. inoxllor
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 07:17 | Permalink

    Sandly it still has some bugs & crashes…

  4. lexxonnet
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 08:43 | Permalink

    The only thing I like about safari is the engine :) If I ever ever want to use that on Windows, I’ll wait for Konqueror 4 :D Will be open-source too, unlike safari!

  5. Fred Nerk
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 21:11 | Permalink

    Yah second rate software on a first class OS….I would even prefer firefox

  6. Calum
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 21:13 | Permalink

    Safari does look a bit weird with a menu bar… still my preferred browser on OS X though, with Camino a close second. The new 3.0 “features” (apart from “running on Windows”) aren’t exactly mind-blowing, though — went back to v2 after about 5 mins!

  7. Maxo
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 01:11 | Permalink

    I tried to install it with Wine. The first problem is that the program is looking for the .dlls with all caps naming, but they are saved all lower case. I made the .dlls all caps, but then the first .dlls file causes some error and it closes.
    It’s all good because Firefox is better than Safari IMO.

  8. jdub
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 01:25 | Permalink

    @Maxo: I had the same problem… Ended up trying it in Vista. With brushed metal and small/crappy fonts, it’s unfortunately very ugly. I’m hoping for their sake that they switch to the slicker Mac style for the final release — I can’t see too many people ditching the fresh and peppy looking Firefox for this drab and inscrutable Safari.

  9. Alan
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 13:20 | Permalink

    Konqueror on Windows probably wouldn’t be a good idea since it is very much intended for those who like swiss-army-knife-software with a bit of everything and a windows version would have great difficulty offering the high level of integration KDE users have come to expect. Konqueror is after all much more than a browser.

    This might be bad news for Firefox in the short term if Safari (and any other WebKit based browsers) surpass it in market share but in the longer if Safari is successful it will mean more better designed web sites instead of pages slumming it in the “optimized for Internet explorer” ghetto, and we all win.

    Used Safari for a bit and it feels odd because I’m so used to the small differences of the Gecko rendering engine. For whatever reason I do feel more substantially more comfortable using Safari than when last I tried out Konqueror. And yes it is a bit crashey.

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