Safari ushers in better browser colors
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Apple's Safari could bring richer colors to Windows browsers, but Firefox soon will help expand the gamut, too.
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The major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites.
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Still in beta form, new browser allows you to view pages as they would appear in IE.
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Microsoft has won the browser wars, but a battle is raging for the runner-up spot and one of the contenders has recently been refreshed.
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Apple continues to patch holes in its Safari for Windows, releasing version 3.0.2 of the browser. The update addresses security issues and contains several functionality tweaks.
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Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs yesterday, adding yet another tentacle to its multipronged encroachment of Microsoft Corp.'s turf.
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The upcoming version of the open-source Web browser will fit right in with Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X. Linux is another matter entirely.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple's just-released public beta of the Safari 3 Web browser -- the first version to run on Windows as well as Mac OS X -- is drawing fervent and sometimes heated reactions from early testers. The following is an unexpurgated sample of what bloggers, ranging from grumpy Windows users to Mac fanboys, had to say in the immediate aftermath of Monday's Safari 3 announcement: Is Safari faster than Steve Jobs speeding on Hwy. 280 in his Mercedes SL AMG? "I miss the spell-checking, but damn -- this gives Opera a run for it's [sic] money in terms of speed. I just tested loading my homepage with both of them, and I have no doubts about it." -- Griffith, Forever Geek "After downloading and installing Safari on XP (w/ 1GB RAM, P4 3Ghz, yada yada yada), I have to say that it is a complete joke ... the browser is just so horribly slow. Did they test this? It takes literally at least 5x longer to render pages in Safari than Firefox. Sometimes even longer. Very sad." -- Doug, Read/ Write Web "I did a comparison of loading CNN on both browsers,and Safari beat Firefox by a mile." -- Hoobam, Download Squad "The more I run Safari on Vista, the faster it launches. Am I hallucinating? Is there a cosmic force that means just when I complain about Safari taking 57 seconds to launch, as soon as that complaint is made public, it launches much more quickly? Am I going insane? Or is someone playing a clever prank on me?" -- Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software Fonts: fuzzier than a peach skin? "If you sit really close to the monitor, then the Windows way is better. However, if you move back a couple of feet (3 feet or so from the screen to your eyes), then the Apple way seems more readable. The Apple rendering is definitely darker." -- Brendan Dowling, Coding Horror "It looks like they've skewed the contrast of the fonts to an absurdly low level. I'm curious why Apple's default font rendering strategies, to my eye -- and to the eyes of at least two other people -- are visibly inferior to Microsoft's on typical LCD displays. This is exactly the kind of graphic designer-ish detail I'd expect Cupertino to get right, so it's all the more surprising to me that they apparently haven't." -- Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror "In Safari, go to Edit/Preferences ... and then select the Appearance tab. For "Font smoothing," choose Light (the default is Medium). Much better now. Not perfect, mind you, but much better." -- Tom, Coding Horror "I also noticed that if I increase the font size, Apple-style anti-aliasing becomes tolerable. I'm beginning to think that the differences are. 1) Apple doesn't hand-tune the font aliasing hints for smaller font sizes. 2) Apple chose a much, much darker contrast level for its anti-aliasing algorithm." -- Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror And now for today's bug report.... "Seems like the only website my Safari works with is Apple's own homepage. Crashed about 15 times and I've only been _trying_ to use it for an hour." --Â  Brandon, Download Squad "I installed Safari, and every single time I attempt to bookmark something, it crashes -- hard." -- EJ Passeos, TechCrunch "The only browser unable to correctly display a Google result page. Wow." --Â  Xavier, TechCrunch "Oh damn, I just crashed with Safari at the 1st Google request by entering Japanese characters." -- Eirikur, Engadget "ALL the menu dropdowns don't work (they are just empty). Half the text is missing on many pages. URL bar doesn't work. Selects a non standard font for the pages. Need some more?" -- ScOObyDoo, Engadget Well, how about the new features? "The most notable new feature is an improved Firefox-style way to search for text on a Web page. Hit Control-F, and an oval search box appears towards the top of the window. Type your search term, hit enter, and watch the page go gray with your search terms highlighted in white or bright orange (that's the selected result)." -- Narasu Rebbapragada, PC World "Tabbed browsing? Been done. Easy Bookmarks? Been done. Popup blocking? Old news. Inline Find -- stunning visually but also been done. SnapBack? This is a gimicky [sic] back button -- not good enough. Forms autofill -- zzz. Built-in RSS -- yawn. When are we getting to the good stuff? Er ... okay, so that's it, there is nothing new here." -- Vincent Maher, Media in Transition "The display window is VERY clean; even the status bar at the bottom of most Windows applications is missing (configurable to have it return) to give maximum viewable area. Notably absent are the OS X style green, yellow, and red Window controls in the top right of every dialog window -- stylized but otherwise standard Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons are found instead." -- Scratching The Surface "If it wasn't so damn ugly, and made use of more than 2 mouse buttons (no middle button click-to-scroll or back/forward at present), it may be useful. I admit the WebKit is rather snappy at displaying web pages but I can't stand the interface." -- Lizard.boy, Download Squad The final word(s)? "The new version is 3 and really it does what they claim, SPEED. The only problem is I have become so comfortable with Firefox that just speed isn't enough for me to switch." -- Jeremy Jones, Multimedia-PCs.com "It's like software from a different world installed on a Windows-powered computer (much like how Windows users might initially find iTunes)." -- J. Angelo Racoma, J Spot "I've used it for a good 4 hours straight just surfing along a bunch of websites and stuff. It is a lot faster than Firefox, which was my browser of choice, and it is much faster than IE. There are a bit of glitches on it, which is understandable since it is a beta. Once all the features are perfected and the glitches are fixed it'll be a find [sic] browser." -- Jae, Engadget "I'm surprised nobody has said that XP/Vista is making Safari crash ;) After all you know, Apple can do no wrong." -- ssummer, Engadget
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If a Windows version of a Mac application seemed like an odd choice for one of Steve Jobs&#8217; trademark &#8220;One more thing&#8230;&#8221; keynote surprises, it shouldn&#8217;t be, analysts who follow the company say. Developing a Windows version of Safari not only benefits Apple&#8217;s high-profile iPhone, it also helps Apple build market share in the overall browser market.
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Mozilla is trying to weave a new web. Not sure if it matters yet.
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The Firefox Companion adds a sidebar display to the browser that offers eBay-specific search, bidding tools, status alerts, an auction monitor that can be used by both sellers and buyers, and a page-view counter that tallies visits to an auction.
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Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows machines.
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At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a version of the company's Safari Web browser that will run on Windows XP and Vista.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple Inc. Friday issued security updates to patch four vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and the Safari beta, marking the second time in eight days that the company has had to fix its newest browser, which runs on both Mac and Windows XP and Vista machines. The 2007-006 update for Mac OS X 10.3, "Panther" and 10.4 "Tiger," fixes a pair of problems in Safari -- the production-quality versions bundled with the operating system -- including a memory corruption vulnerability that could end with an attacker in control of the Mac. "Visiting a maliciously crafted Web page may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution," Apple said in its alert. The second bug, and to Apple, the less serious of the two, is a cross-site scripting flaw (XSS) in Safari that could be used by phishing sites to steal usernames and passwords. Apple Friday also updated the Safari beta, first released June 11, to version 3.0.2 for both Mac and Windows. Mac Safari 3.0.2 patches another XSS bug, while the Windows edition fixes that, plus a separate vulnerability that could let an attacker disguise the browser's address bar, perhaps as part of a spoofed site meant to trick users into divulging confidential information, such as bank account passwords. For Mac users, 2007-006 and the Safari update are mutually exclusive. If a Mac user has installed Safari Beta 3, only the Safari update will be offered; users who haven't bothered to try out the beta will see only the standard Mac OS X update. Windows users can update Safari to 3.0.2 by downloading the new version from Apple's site, or by running the optional Apple Software Update utility. The just-patched Safari bugs were credited to a team at Adobe Systems Inc., as well as to researchers at Westnet, an Australian Internet service provider, and Westpoint Ltd., a U.K.-based security company. None were accredited to Dave Maynor, one of several researchers who dug up vulnerabilities within a few hours of Safari 3.0's launch last week. Maynor, who said he had found half-a-dozen bugs straight away, refuses to disclose his findings to Apple, part of a year-long feud that goes back to a wireless hack demo Maynor and another researcher gave at last August's Black Hat security conference. "Due to the cries of 'it doesn't count, it's beta,' we are waiting to release any further information till the browser is released in a final state," Maynor said in an e-mail earlier this week.
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Computer giant Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows XP and Vista.
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Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the program is not a game or a music or movie player. But the release of the first full version of a web browser called Firefox has
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Is Apple fine-tuning an enhanced iPod with roughly 50% more storage and a color screen to display photos? The Internet sites that follow Apple&#39;s coming product