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gamefreak
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 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: Has anyone used Safari for windows |
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| I got bored and decided to install the Safari Browser on my computer. I still use firefox 99% of the time but was wondering the pros and cons of safari. |
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Orwell
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Why? Safari is a Mac browser. It's meant to be run within OSX, and even there it can't really compete with Firefox.
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Enigmatic_Oddity
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| All I know about it is that on the iPod Touch and iPhone it is a very buggy application causing more frequent crashes than any other browser I've ever used, or any other application on the device for that matter. And that on my PC it keeps trying to install itself via popup menus like some nasty piece of adware because I have iTunes on my computer. |
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iceb
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Even buggy on Mac OS X
But then it's another toy to play with 
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Orwell
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| iceb wrote: | Even buggy on Mac OS X
But then it's another toy to play with |
Really? I never had any trouble with it, so this comes as a surprise. Even so, Firefox is better.
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RaceDrv709
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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tried it out and hated it. It's the first Apple software to run on my computer and it will be the last.
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richie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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I have Safari, but it is only for getting news and updates for my iTunes account and my iPhone.
And of course I have Safari on my iPhone.
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RogueProcess
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I saw the option to install it, but never bothered - it just doesn't do anything better than Firefox IMHO. |
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gamefreak
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Safari is just too proprietory in my opinion. It seems like its using its own coding language that is usually not standard with other browsers. I also hate the fact that it tries to spell-check everything. Better than IE but still. |
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Ivanov_Kuznetsov
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Please don't use Safari or IE. It's like walking through Defcon with a "screw me!" sign on your back. Firefox3 with noscript is a minimum, really. |
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