Safari For windows

Apart from a few hiccups in the initial phasing of the Apple safari, it is indeed a nifty browser and for many reasons: It looks great; it is reported to have great browsing speeds and has features that haven’t been explored by many users until now.

The good thing about the browser is that it looks neat; very well laid out; doesn’t come with too many packages – just enough to give you an experience.

We are all too familiar with the ‘back” button on our browsers aren’t we? Safari is now equipped with a snap back button that helps you get back to right where you started from. If you were searching for something and click on one of those search results, you could get lost in the tide of web pages. Thankfully, if you didn’t find what you were looking for, you could just get back to the search results. Read more

A feeling of frustration is one thing and the right to access something is another – When a website doesn’t load on a web browser or doesn’t display properly, you have frustration welling up within you. However, if that site belongs to the government and the information contained therein is actually made accessible for the public to view, we then have a problem here simply because the browsers inadequacy is now causing a denial to the right to information for the web surfer. Some of the sites are just “optimized” for certain kinds of old browsers like the Internet Explorer and now even the government is answerable for this gaucherie.

Apparently, the feeling we get here is not browsers being compatible or not – it sis more an issue of websites not being toned up for flexibility no matter which browser is used. Just like you can’t force someone to marry, you couldn’t be forcing someone to use a particular browser to make information available. The government sites, especially, have to be made fluid, flexible and adaptive no any web browser and the people responsible tp put out that information have to ensure that this happens. Agreed that only about 6 % of the web surfers might use the firefox and safari, but it is still worthy of a chin-up. Read more

As the Internet explorer is being dumped more and more and as folks are rushing to adopt to alternative browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari, you would have thought that things are happening for good. Well, they are. But there is another problem here. More and more reports come in everyday about hackers shifting their attention from the Internet explorer to these new browsers ( simply because people are camping here now). As if that wasn’t enough, the new browser Apple Safari is still struggling with some security and vulnerability issues. Read more

Ads are everywhere and it is indeed tiresome to see some of them popping just at the time you wanted to settle down for a nice, pleasurable read. How about putting a stop to this menace if you are using the All new Apple’s Browser — Safari? Provided therein in your menu are tools to help you do just that. Just do the following: Read more

You often stumble on sites and you find them to be cool, informative or engaging. Well, it could be that you might want to avoid some sites altogether. Either ways, you wouldn’t want to forget the names of these sites, would you? Safari has an easy way for you to handle this situation by helping you bookmark your favorite ( or most hated and hence to be avoided sites ) by adding the book mark feature — now, every browser has this feature, but we are talking about Safari which is famed for its simplicity and sheer functionality apart from the mind boggling speeds. Read more

Imagine what would have happened if pay pal suddenly decided not allow users to log-in to their pay pal accounts if they happened to use Apple’s Safari Browser (inlcuding the one on the Pink iPhone) – absolute mayhem. Thankfully, Pay pal has issued an official release stating that it has no intention to block any users of any browser whatsoever and the unrest was unwarranted.

Pay Pal does have a policy (for enhanced security) not to allow users logging into their systems through out-dated or unsafe browsers. Read more

“Blazing performance”, “Tabbed Browsing”, “built in RSS” and a lot of other features sometimes get on to the fading clouds given that the number of negatives race to dim the light on the positives. The recent headline grabber safari V.3.1 is said to have a couple of software vulnerability issues and a lot of other quirky bugs seemed to have surfaced preceding and following the launch of the browser. One such vulnerability was the fact that the files on a windows machine (especially the long named ones) can be exploited to cause a memory corruption which is made possible using these loopholes by a savvy attacker. Read more

Things seem to be heating up now ever since the launch of Apple’s Safari V 3.1. Mozilla seems to be at logger heads with Apple when it apparently set off a war of sorts when Mozilla’s chief had stated that “Apple coerces people to download software that isn’t really required”. I don’t know where that one came from since, as far I know almost every other software (including Mozilla’s Firefox) feeds on other software to render its applicability.

An excerpt from the site www.nzherald.co.nz goes like this

Mozilla CEO John Lilly has blasted Apple for including the Safari browser for Windows in its software update.
He says it tricks Windows users into downloading the new browser by bundling it with updates for iTunes and QuickTime. Read more

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This Post is a sequel to Safari – a host of neat touches underneath the hood: Part 1
We are taking a rather drawn on, critical look at what is underneath the hood of the newly launched Safari V 3.1 Browser (now also made available for windows users). One of the nifty options provided within the browser was the “Snap-back”. Click once and you are back to the original results page or the original page where you started browsing – you’ll appreciate this one because I would spend a good 3-5 minutes just hitting on the back button to reach the place where I started from. Add ‘private browsing’ and for once you can escape the watchful eyes and hyper sharp ears of the Internet. Read more

Apart from a few unsubstantiated rumors about the recently “off-beta (ized)” function version of Safari V 3.1, there seems to be more euphoria about a host of snazzy functions Safari claims to have brought to the table. The bugs that have been reported were during the “beta’ time and it is still uncertain whether they have been rectified or not. However, there are reasons under the safari’s hood that might win every sane browser’s heart. Read more