I wasn’t surprised to see Apple release their Safari browser for Windows today. I installed it tonight and played around with it for a few minutes. After visiting a few sites, I right-clicked and dragged my mouse down, forgetting momentarily that Safari doesn’t have ‘mouse gestures’ like I’ve installed on Firefox not to mentioned a few dozen other plug-ins I won’t browse without. This makes the likelihood that I’d ever switch browsers very unlikely.
iTunes became a hit on Windows because it was required to load music on your iPod, not necessarily because it’s a superior product. Does Apple feel there is a large enough audience out there who is unhappy with IE, Firefox, and Opera? Safari isn’t a bad browser, but I don’t know what it brings to the game. Maybe it loads pages faster in official, measured tests, but in my unofficial tests, it felt about the same at Firefox. Microsoft has 75% of the browser market on Windows and Firefox has 15%. I just can’t see IE and Firefox users switching to Safari. That leaves a 10% chunk for all the 3rd tier browsers to fight over.
Would Apple have the guts to bundle Safari with iTunes, the way they did with QuickTime?
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I tried Safari as well Brett and came to the same conclusion. I checked out my site to see if it looked alright and then went to one of my favorite sites. The first thing I noticed was all the ads — No adblock plugin!! That alone was enough to make me go right back to Firefox.
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