Safari For windows

Apple Safari has really come up with highly interactive and user-friendly tabs. Today a lot of other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet explorer and Netscape Navigator offer tabbed web surfing, but the way Apple Safari has created its tabs totally captures the interest of window users.

You will find a lot of vital features in Safari’s tabs which are absent in the other browsers. Safari tabs are more creative and exciting to work with. The major advantage of Safari tabs is you can drag a tab and it will show you a small snapshot of the web page associated with that tab. If you drop that tab anywhere outside the tab bar, a new window will open showing the web page of the corresponding tab. If you are working with more than one tab at a time, you can also rearrange them by simply clicking on a tab and moving it either left or right inside the tab bar. You can clearly see that the movement of other tabs when they adjust themselves according to the shifted one. This animated property of tabs makes it easier for the users to determine where the tab will get placed (which is being shifted) and how this rearrangement of tabs will look like. Mozilla Firefox does not have these kinds of animated tabs and thus I frequently face issues whenever I rearrange my tabs. Apple has really shown a great piece of innovation.

Safari Tabs showing a snapshot of the web pages when getting dragged

The Apple Safari Menu

Last week I found that no menu appears when I right click on the tool bar. This week my internet work speed slowed down because of lack of appropriate options in the Apple Safari’s menu, which pops up when I right click in the area where the web page is displayed. There are some options which I use frequently in Mozilla Firefox, but they all are missing in Safari’s menu. Options which facilitate background image viewing and sending the web page links are missing. One of the most important option ‘Select All’ is also not there in the Safari’s menu. Therefore I was not able to select all the text on the web page quickly and easily.

The Firefox Menu

The Firefox menu provides all these functions and some additional ones also. For example, in Firefox if you select some text in the web page and then right click your mouse, you will get an option named as ‘View Selection Source’. With the help of this option you can see the HTML source code of the selected portion only. Safari does not have this feature too. Firefox menu has an another comprehensive option (View Page Info) which is rarely used but can provide complete information about the web page. Its time to seriously revise the menus of Safari.

Soon after its launch the Apple Safari has become the favorite web browser of most of the Windows users. It has rapidly earned a good reputation in the web browser’s market. The reason behind its instantaneous success is its superb features.

Apple has carefully identified the needs of the Internet users and has developed Safari for windows accordingly. Safari earns extra points because of its speed, animated menus, easy user interface and some other features which add quality and fascination to web surfing. The most prominent attraction of Safari is its speed. The start up time and web browsing speed is very good which helps you to view heavy web pages quickly. The menus and windows too are very user friendly with lots of useful options embedded in them. You will experience stunning graphics on Safari. Apple has used the same graphics engine in Safari that is used in MAC OS X. Apart form this, Safari ensures secured web browsing. It uses great encryption methods to ensure that your private information is safe on the web. Other features, which keep Safari ahead of other browsers, include pop-up blocker, private browsing, resizable text windows, easy bookmarks management etc. I think every one should try Safari once and feel the difference.

Apple Safari gives mesmerizing graphic effects with minimum latency time

Can anybody help me with the Add-ons in Safari for Windows XP? I am not getting interactive menus for installing new add-ons and themes for my Safari. When I click on the Window add-on option in Safari, it shows me the complete list of installed add-ons as a web page. But I was expecting the list of Add-ons in a separate window from where I can install new Add-ons and themes to customize my Safari according to my taste.

This kind of facility is available in Mozilla’s Firefox. Its add-on option shows up the current installed add-ons and themes. It also has options which directly take the user to Mozilla’s webpage. From there you can select different extensions and themes to be installed on for your Firefox. Apple should also offer a similar kind of facility for its customers. Of course Safari’s method is still more simple than with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. I have tried a lot to find a simple way to install new themes and add-ons but didn’t get any such option. May be its there as sub-option under some tab (which I am guessing only), but still there should be an easy way to get it because everyone uses these kind of options to dress up his browser according to his preferences and should be accessible easily.

Safari’s way to show add-ons:

Mozilla’s way:

Apple Safari for windows XP is still ahead of the Mozilla’s Firefox due to its animated pop up windows. For the first time, Apple has introduced great style of presenting the pop up windows which comes out when you select any particular option from the menu bar. For example: If you click on Edit on the menu bar and select the last option i.e. Preferences, you will get a window popped out on your screen. Now the way this window has been designed is just fantastic.

For the first time a unique creativity has been unfolded while developing animation for these kind of pop up windows for Safari. When you browse through different tabs in the window the size of the window gets adjusted automatically according to the options under a particular tab. For eg. Suppose you are on General tab, now if you click on Appearance tab then the overall size of the window shrinks according to the matter. Again if you click on General tab or any other tab the window will get automatically resized according to its contents. This feature makes Safari distinctively ahead because neither Microsoft’s Internet Explorer nor the Firefox gives this level of user interaction. Both of them provide the same old fashioned static windows. By applying simple creativity, Apple has earned lots of additional points.

See how window automatically adjust itself according to the contents

Day by day I am getting impressed by Safari on my Windows XP because some of its cool features like fast speed, animated pop-up windows etc. But suddenly I found some thing wrong which crashes all my thrill and excitement.

Last night I was surfing the web via my Safari and suddenly I got a web page which was showing an extra large image of my favorite game character. I decided to increase the viewable area by hiding the navigation toolbar which I do frequently on Mozilla Firefox. So, I just put my cursor on the navigation bar and right clicked my mouse. Oh! Where is the right click menu? It is something which is very necessary. Now, I have to go to View on the menu bar every time I want to hide the tool bar? And its shortcut is also not easy to remember. I was expecting a right click menu in which there should be an option to show/hide the navigation tool bar, but all in vain. Well I hope that in future these kind of small issues will get rectified which will boost my interest and enthusiasm while exploring the fun via Safari.

Having a menu without a right click option not only sounds ludicrous but is quite impractical too

No doubt that Apple Safari for Windows is faster than Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, in fact initially this was the only feature which made me to shift from Firefox to Safari, but one thing which disappoints me is its toolbar.

I was expecting its toolbar as more user friendly including a lot of functions on it, but all I got was a messy toolbar which does not have all the basic features even. Seriously, the toolbar needs to be revised. There is no GO button, so one has to press Enter or Reload button to open the typed URL which is not at all convenient. Secondly, the Refresh and Stop button is same which creates a lot of confusion while surfing the web. There should be two different buttons for two different options. Now most disgusting thing of all is that there is no Home button and the back and forward button doesn’t show up the list of currently viewed URLs. I use these functions a lot and thus I am not able to use my Safari conveniently. The drop down list of visited URLs in the Address Bar is also missing. Safari’s tools should be restructured with all the basic features included and some advanced one also in order to get one step ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer.

One thing which I feel good about Safari for windows is that its menus are more handy and useful if compared to the menus of Mozilla Firefox. Safari’s menus are easy to understand especially the bookmarks are very easy to manage. Firefox bookmarks always leave me confused and messed up with URLs. Another feature of safari which delights me is its stylish pop-up windows which come down when you click on Add Bookmark option. Safari also gives you the option to block pop up windows on different sites in its menu only. The most annoying thing which I feel about Mozilla Firefox is that it does not have Window option in its menu which I use a lot.

Safari menus attract the viewers because of its in-built animations. The options selected through menus also get loaded very fast. I am not sure whether this is also due to the menus or something else, but it saves my time a lot. The History option of the Safari menu is also too cool. It shows the history of recently opened URLs day wise which the Firefox does not shows. In Mozilla Firefox, if you want to increase the font size of the website which you are viewing you have to press Ctrl+ +, but Apple Safari puts this option in its menu itself. The bottom line is for me, the Apple Safari earns extra points than the Firefox.

Incredibly fast browsing

Officially, it is the fastest browser today and according to the Apple Safari’s website

“ The fastest web browser today, Safari loads and draws pages up to 3 times faster than Firefox 2 and up to 5.5 times faster than Opera 9. And it executes JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Firefox 2 and up to 5 times faster than Opera 9.1 What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them”

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Secured Browsing experience
In spite of what the world wants to say, The Safari browser is still a safe and secure HTML browser. It even boasts of a 128 - bit encryption and also has an ebullient community to help you with your technical issues. Apple’s website says:

“Safari protects your personal information when you surf the web on a shared or public Mac. Go ahead — check your bank account and .Mac email at the library or shop for birthday presents on the family Mac. Safari also uses strong 128-bit encryption when accessing secure sites such as your bank or an online store, so you can transmit account and payment information with confidence”.

The Blue Hue
When you open the browser and start using it, I really love the bluish hue that it projects browser wide. Little things like highlighting the text input are on some websites and the text size it automatically renders gives it an amazing aura. I typically loved the blue sensation it creates and this is surely something I love the safari for.

One of the best things about Apple’s Safari is the fact that it Is an open source project and in this regard then, it is leagues ahead of the Internet explorer for the simple reason that it comes unbound and doesn’t necessitate you to have an ‘ MSN Messenger” or something that you don’t want to use.

Open Source projects are usually free or come at a very low cost compared to the commercial projects. Also, they have a thriving and very supporting community of developers who always stand by to help you when you have trouble.
In the case of apple now, since they have used an open source project called as Webkit, you are not struck with the apple’s staff to help you out of technical problems but you have a full community of people like you who would have used or developed or both with regards to the software in question.

According to Apple’s developer pages and webkit’s Home page:

“ WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit’s HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60’s S60 WebKit development..”

Also, it might be heartening to note that webkit’s primary responsibility is ‘security’ - -so even if multiple cases are reported about Apple’s Security and the bugs, it is only a mater of time when everything gets sorted out.