Safari 2.0 For Windows

[Big B]

Apple is trying to expand it's web browser market share from the minor placement it has with the OS X operating system. Anandtech takes the Safari 3.0 release for a spin to see what the fuss is all about under Windows.
The big question: is it better than IE, Firefox, or Opera?

Safari 3 in particular introduces a new inline searching feature that goes beyond previous highlighting abilities by removing the focus on the rest of the webpage that doesn't contain the word being searched for. This is far superior to Internet Explorer, which can only highlight a single instance of a word at a time, or Firefox which in spite of its multi-highlight ability can be hard to use in dense page situations. Compared to both of those situations, it's much easier to actually see the searched word on the page.

 

[RHochstenbach]

Well, I ran Safari on Windows for quite some time. It actually loads web pages faster than Opera, so it is a very fast browser. However it uses a huge amount of system resources (about 70 MB of RAM on my pc). The program itself responds quite slow on an Intel Core Duo with 2 GB of RAM. As a comparisation, it runs about 25% slower than iTunes 7 for Windows.

So if you prefer fast webbrowsing over the speed of the program itself, then Safari would be a good choice :).

But it's still in Beta, so many things could change.