Comments on: Taking Safari on Windows XP for a Spin

By: Matthis

Matthis — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:30:55 +0000

My scrollwheel didnt work in safari on Vista, but it did in itunes(, so that was a bit weird.) What i did was in device manager
1 click mouse properties and click update
2 click browse and click let me pick
3 uncheck show compatible and look for the microsoft intellpoint (USB in my case)
continue continue continue…
if your mouse doesnt work at this point youre screwed….
4 if you have a human interface device (HID) as device repeat steps 123 for the mouse (HID)
it worked for me
Bye

By: Ikebana

Ikebana — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:38:53 +0000

Thanks for discussing the features of safari, I will definitely try it on my own PC

http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com

By: shraddha

shraddha — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:05:24 +0000

Safari for windows gives a very unconventional appearance I must say. Even I feel that web pages render very quickly on safari than IE and without caching too!!Great!!
But I don’t know why the cursor doesn’t work on a web page which makes it very uneasy and irritating
too when I want to scroll till the end of the page. Even it doesn’t contain a back button! But still the site gets a more richer look on safari than on other browsers like IE, Opera or Firefox.
http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com/

By: Teeks

Teeks — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:18 +0000

“I installed safari for win xp, but it loads for less than one second and then disappears???????
any help?” – alex

… ME TOO!!!!

What gives? I remember this happening with some other programs when you mess around with their program group shortcuts in your start menu. That’s my only theory but I’ve already moved them around and I couldn’t be bothered reinstalling it right now. I also don’t think it’s likely, but I’ve got an almost completely fresh install of XP and can’t think of any other reason it would behave like this. Other than it being a Beta release of course.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:22:13 +0000

I installed safari for win xp, but it loads for less than one second and then disappears???????
any help?
thanks

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:05:28 +0000

Works great on my Macbook Pro. The only problem I’ve noticed (on my Windows box at work) is that the first lauch of the day is noticably slow…8-10 seconds. Subsequent launches are almost instantaneous. I like everything else about it better than competing browsers. I’m hoping that future versions will be truly innovative, and offer new features that the competition doesn’t have.

By: Camibeau

Camibeau — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:06:57 +0000

I´m experiencing the missing Lucida font problem in Safari 3.02 for Windows XP Professional. I´m usually able to fix issues like this, but none of the suggested workarounds have worked for me. Hopefully a patch is in the works at Apple.

By: Chris Naud

Chris Naud — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:56:34 +0000

I have a IBM mouse and scrolling doesn’t work for me. Safari doesn’t seem to recognize the scroll wheel.

By: Adria Abraham

Adria Abraham — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:18:35 +0000

Scrolling MS Intellimouse works fine here

By: sprocket999

sprocket999 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:40:24 +0000

Oh, I have to say that this Safari is MUCH better to look at in the Windows world than the nasty stuff IE 6/7 or FF2 offers up. That text rendering sucks bolts. Anyhow, no speed hits on my IBM ThinkPad T42 (Win XP-Pro).

By: Wednesday Keller

Wednesday Keller — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:30:16 +0000

Yep Safari renders text on Windows like OS X renders text. There’s a bitter debate about it over at Coding Horror (below) but I tend to think OS X renders in a way that makes the text look better.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000884.html

By: Guy Teague

Guy Teague — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:44 +0000

oh, and i forgot to mention. it’s so slow i’ve had to suspend use of it. i tested it against ie7, ie6 and firefox using about a dozen web pages and it was unbearably slow.

funny thing is that on my mac at home, the myyahoo page chokes safari eventually. there’s a javascript that the mac version of safari just seems unable to process and the ‘busy’ icon spins nearly constantly. on my windows machine the same page works fine using any windows browser. but when i installed safari on xp the windows version of safari also choked on the myyahoo page.

/guy

By: Guy Teague

Guy Teague — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:45:46 +0000

i have a logitech mouse and the fwd/back buttons don’t work on xp/safari. i even used the logitech app to map the buttons to ^[/^] and they still don’t work.

/guy

By: Crog

Crog — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:04:59 +0000

Scrollwheel works on the Mac too, no additional software required. May be a bug somewhere.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:01:38 +0000

I grabbed this as well and just wanted to note that I have no problem using my scroll wheel on long pages.