Apple released Safari for Windows a few months ago, and it looks like they maybe should have waited a little longer.
Let us count the ways:
- Compiler benchmarked Safari against Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox2, and the results didn’t look great for the Apple browser. Safari wound up in last place opening a message in Gmail, last place logging into Gmail, and two seconds slower than Firefox in Google Calendar.
- If you didn’t like Safari’s blurry fonts, you’ll hate when it spits out gobbledygook because you have different language settings than English. Take a look at the messed up screenshot Amit Agarwal took, and fixing the damn thing isn’t fun or sometimes easy.
- Apple released the first patch for Safari, upping it to version 3.0.1, fixing security vulnerabilities that have already popped up in the browser.
- Apple put out a press release, proclaiming 1 million downloads in the first two days. Considering the millions following the WWDC, the AP coverage, the blog posts, news articles in every publication on the planet, one million could be a little low. I’m shocked Apple would brag about downloads so soon, when there may not be a lot of pickup in the weeks and months to come. Typically, these sort of things get a ton of downloads in the first day or two, then taper off unless they are a hit. Nothing we’ve heard indicates Safari is taking off with users, so maybe Apple should have curbed its enthusiasm. Claim 1 million in two days, and if you can’t claim 8 million in a month, you’ve wasted everyone’s time. Does anything indicate that will actually happen?
It’s not all bad. Scott Hanselman’s speed test was on video, and Safari took or tied five out of six tests:
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