Safari for WinBlows

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:58 am

Considering we've more than a couple techies 'round here, I figured I'd check.

Anyone used this fucking thing? Good? Bad? Ugly? Fugly?

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:00 am

I've read that the new version is aduquate for random surfing, there just isn't the plug-in support like Firefox has.... of which I don't use 99% of the plugins, anyway.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:46 pm

It was hard enough to get me to even try FireFox (which I now use for all websites except this one and a handful of others)

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:01 pm

Why don't you use Firefox here?

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:22 pm

I use Firefox here.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:44 am

Cuz when I first did, it didn't look quite right.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:56 pm

As of today I can't get Firefox to launch at all, even after reinstalling it, so maybe I'll be trying safari, soon.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:33 pm

GORDON wrote:As of today I can't get Firefox to launch at all, even after reinstalling it, so maybe I'll be trying safari, soon.

Uh, weird. It crashing, not responding, freezing, or just plain won't fucking start?

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:55 pm

I click the little Firefox icon in my Quickstart panel, and I get the hourglass for about 2 seconds, then nothing. I can't even see a process for it in system processes.

Gonna try an uninstall/reinstall and see what happens.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:58 pm

Interesting. If the uninstall doesn't fix it, that'll be really fucked up.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:00 pm

Uninstall/reinstall didn't fix.

Restoring to a windows backup save point two days ago didn't fix.

Restoring then uninstall/reinstall didn't fix.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:23 pm

And now I can't click bookmarks in IE.

I think my XP install is crashing.

REstoring from 2 days ago should have worked, though... I hope my Mobo or RAM isn't dying.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:50 pm

XP reinstall?

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:57 pm

Probably. This is shitty timing for it, though.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:23 pm

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:47 pm

Because hopefully in less than a month I'll be building a new system anyway.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:03 am

GORDON wrote:Because hopefully in less than a month I'll be building a new system anyway.

If I can find the cash & time, I'd kill to put a new system together & make it the centre of my home entertainment shit.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:34 am

Mozilla comments.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:26 am

Jobs, for his moments of brilliance, also has his moments of idiocy.

There are too many people out there who avoid Apple no matter how good their product is.

BTW, system format/reload resolved my Firefox issues. Not sure what happened there.

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DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:42 pm

IIRC, safari is based on KHTML which is what Konquer the KDE default browser uses. Konquer sucked balls. I work on a Mac and don't use safari at all. I did read somewhere that this has everything to do with the iPhone. Evidently they are making a development kit that works within safari so by releasing sarfari on windows they've increased their potential developer base. They are trying to leverage an open developer market to create new apps for the iPhone, since there is already a couple linux based phone development kits. If I run across the article again, I'll post it.