Comments on: Safari for Windows: A Brief Review

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:28:33 +0000

Thank you Peter!!!
I have a PowerBook at home and use a Windows ThinkPad T60 at work. I was eager to see the lightening speed of Safari 3 compared with the RAM hungry Firefox. I was frustrated by the ThinkPad TrackPoint issue and your links here are the first relevant solution I found.

Helpful Notes regarding the levelsofdetail tip:
I tried the microsoft forums link, but it was gone. Fortunately, I found my tp4table.dat file at “C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP” and I was able to skip the suggested reboot by stopping (killing) the SynTPEnh.exe and SynTPLpr.exe processes and restarting them. I didn’t even have to restart Safari.

Thanks for figuring this out and sharing with the world!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:34:14 +0000

I understand that the Inquisitor plug-in is only available for the Mac version of Safari. Or am I just Windows-ignorant?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:52:17 +0000

As a side note: the method described by Paul Moran on fixing the scroll issue for TrackPoint does work. Be aware that you will need to restart your system for the changes to take effect.

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By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:44:53 +0000

Thanks for the tip. If you would like the power of Firefox in a format that is more Mac-like, I suggest you try Camino browser…

By: Raven

Raven — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:32:08 +0000

Your dislike nr 2 shouldn’t be one. If you click and hold the back button you’ll see your previously visited pages.
And dislike nr 3 can be easily solved by Inquisitor, one of the plugins available for Safari, and already mentioned by Chris. That page offers lots more interesting add-ons for what is still my favorite Mac browser (Firefox just feels a bit odd, un-Mac-like to me).
Hope this helped a bit in making your Safari experience better.

By: Paul Moran

Paul Moran — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:13:24 +0000

I’m going to try this fix for the scrolling thinkpad/safari problem:

http://levelsofdetail.kendeeter.com/

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:49:04 +0000

The rising popularity of Firefox could be attributed to its open-source nature. More developers . . . more plugins. This is something that IE and Safari are certainly lacking.

Thanks for the link, Chris. And I like your nice WordPress website, too.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:56:40 +0000

I am also a web designer (that’s how I found your site, by the way) and I could have predicted your dislikes. I only wanted safari so I could take a look at some of my design work and see how it rendered. After using it a while I found it to be fairly inferior in most of the areas you mentioned.

One thing I should mention is that you can get plugins for Safari. I found a few at this link. They are nothing like the great array for Firefox though, as many of the best are not free.

Thanks for the review.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:58:31 +0000

Nice review, I think I will stick to Firefox for now