AppleInsider StaffMore than 1 million copies of Apple Inc.'s Safari web browser for Windows were downloaded in its first two days of availability, the company said Thursday.
Apple claims 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.
The software has been available as a pre-release beta for Windows XP and Vista since Monday. Once downloaded, users will receive updates delivered through a Software Update mechanism. Apple issued the first such update on Wednesday, fixing "some early reported bugs."
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.
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I was probably download 546,730I must say my stability hasn't been bad on my work laptop. I'm guessing that I'm a member of the "lucky" crew. On my Mac I find the Beta of S3 to be less beachball prone than S2. I'm nothing but pleased.
Hopefully Apple has some future tricks to keep the download counter moving briskly. I like the "merge windows" feature for those errant sites that pop up in a new window when clicked.
Poor people who are downloading it and have issues. Most people don't understand that beta does not equivocate to stable.
Poor people who are downloading it and have issues. Most people don't understand that beta does not equivocate to stable.
By God, poor people always seem to get the short end of the stick, don't they?
It's windows. They are used to unstable systems.
It's windows. They are used to unstable systems.
I am using it at work currently (formerly using Firefox), and I must say I haven?t have any major issues thus far. A few annoyances (like lack of spell check), but that is to be expected in a "beta". However, I?ll probably have to switch back to Firefox, because of the IE Tabs extension. If someone could incorporate this into a Safari plugin for windows (so I can access certain corporate websites, and our application for testing), I would be a permanent Safari user.