This is the first public beta of Safari on Windows, and it's a hell of a lot more ambitious than Firefox. Resizable text boxes, movable tabs that also drag off to form a new window dynamically. Built-in search with unprecedented ease of use, merge all windows, private browsing. Sure Firefox is a nice browser, but there is no arguing that Apple is attempting to push things forward here, and they are managing to keep the UI of the thing very minimal at the same time. I think it's a fine first beta for such a full featured web browser. People always go on about Firefoxe's plugins, but what they fail to realize is most computer users don't even know what plugins are. When all the kinks are ironed out, you'll see that Safari will be the browser for the rest of us.
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brendan Sheehan jnr @ Jun 12th 2007 8:25AM
This is the first public beta of Safari on Windows, and it's a hell of a lot more ambitious than Firefox. Resizable text boxes, movable tabs that also drag off to form a new window dynamically. Built-in search with unprecedented ease of use, merge all windows, private browsing. Sure Firefox is a nice browser, but there is no arguing that Apple is attempting to push things forward here, and they are managing to keep the UI of the thing very minimal at the same time. I think it's a fine first beta for such a full featured web browser. People always go on about Firefoxe's plugins, but what they fail to realize is most computer users don't even know what plugins are. When all the kinks are ironed out, you'll see that Safari will be the browser for the rest of us.