The initial Safari release was packed with a box of bugs all over. Well, there were problems much important to me. The most important bug in my case was solved in the latest release!
2.When I try to access websites which ask for authentication through Prompt, it asks for proxy authentication and crashes after several attempts because it neither accepts proxy login nor the website's login. Some strange problem.
Yay!! This has been solved, and now I am able to access my favourite private forum!!
The safari website says following updates in the latest release:
Changes in Safari 3.0.2 for Windows beta:
- Latest security updates
- Improved stability
- Fixes for text display, non-English systems, and start-up times
The first one is not that important to me anyway. The second, is infact quite important. When I used to visit www.digg.com and look at news with huge number of comments, like greater than say 200, the safari used to just crash! Same was the case with www.perezhilton.com. But, now Safari 3.0.2 is quite stable and it doesn't crash. The third, font issue, is not important to me again anyway, because it was working fine since the initial release.
With these fixes, I am already in love with Safari. It looks sleek, awesome, beautiful. I love the Apple's style of displaying text fields and buttons in its elegant trademark style. Look, http://mail.yahoo.com to see what I am talking about. Look at the sign-in button and see the boundary of the selected text field. They are all Mac style! :) and I love them. And I am a Windows XP user :D
Though I hear reviews that Safari 3.0.2 has slowed down a bit while loading pages, I didn't see much difference. To speak the truth, yes, I am FED-UP with Firefox, it hogging on resources, losing history & bookmarks when computer crashes, add-on bugs etc! I need a change in browser and I have all of it in Apple Safari 3.0.2.
But, then there are some MOST SIMPLE user-friendly tweaks to be done in safari to be the best browser in the world. For example:
- New Tabs: To open a new tab,a double-click feature should be there. Double click on the empty tab space. Like in Firefox/opera.
- Bookmarks: There is no facility to sort bookmarks! What a douche! This should be really taken care of quick.
- Skins: Yes, custom skins facility would be great. But then I think they are going to release them as plug-ins. At least, changing the colour of the browser should be possible by default. The current one seems a little bit dark, though I love it anyway :D.
- Maximize-Minimise issue. I am not sure but, it might be Mac's style. and i don't like it.
- Proxy settings exclusively for Safari.
- Thats it for now!!
Happy Browsing webnuts! Safari Rocks. :)
