I just installed a copy of the Safari for Windows beta. So…What are my first impressions?

First of all, it looks very Mac-like. It’s got a rounded blue scrollbar, brushed-steel window chrome, and the text fields glow blue when orcs are about when you select them.

Pages load at half the speed of Firefox, and there are rendering goofs as well. Pages that look fine in Firefox and IE sometimes have highly noticeable problems in Safari. Then there are less pressing design matters, like bigger, bolder text than in other browsers. There are AJAX issues, too. Safari is famous for it’s problems with AJAX.

There are some cool features, like an RSS reader that’s a few steps ahead of other browsers’. The interface takes some getting used to as well, me being used to Windows.

Final thoughts? It looks cool, it competes with Internet Explorer, and it’s an Apple product…but I’m sticking with Firefox!

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