Safari

[houseisland]

I downloaded and installed Safari out of idle curiousity.

I haven't seen it run on a Mac, but on Windows it's nothing to write home about. Farily plain. Relatively few config options. Relatively few interesting and/or useful distinguishing features. Subjectively slower than Firefox. Subjectively way way slower than Opera. Not as nice eye candy as AiiiiEeeee 7.0. A hard sell for the PC maybe, but then Apple excels at marketing so who knows?

I'll keep it, I think. There are very few cross browser exploits, and I use different browsers for different tasks. I will find something to do with Safari.


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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!

[BOB IROC]

I have a Macbook that I use that I got from Apple that came with Safari as the browser and I really think it sucks if you ask me. I used to browse many of the sites I use personally and at my school district and most of them did not load right and functions were lost. We have 60 iMacs that we use in our graphic labs and I ended up installing Firefox on them as that is much better.

[houseisland]

Safari, however, is right down there in the "relatively" risk-free zone, along with Konqueror and Opera.

http://secunia.com/product/12366

http://secunia.com/product/12434

http://secunia.com/product/5289

http://secunia.com/product/3166

http://secunia.com/product/10615

http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4495/

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!

[slgrieb]

I'd say BOB has provided us with a succinct and accurate analysis once again. Certainly, the design of Safari doesn't have as many holes to exploit as IE, but what does? Of more concern is Apple's attitude toward security in general and their response time to vulnerabilities as they are discovered.

Any users of Apple products (both hardware and software, whether run in OS X or Windows) should read Brian Krebs' analysis that I posted a while back.