It’s been just four days since the public could get their hands on Safari for Windows. Ryan reviewed Safari earlier this week and noted the features that it has to offer, as well as some of its shortcomings including security concerns.
Yesterday Apple announced that during the first 48 hours since it was available, more than 1 million copies of Safari were downloaded. That is pretty impressive considering some of the bad rap that it’s gotten. Perhaps it’s because this was an unexpected move from Apple which generated a lot of buzz, and so everybody wanted to check it out to see what it’s all about?
Apple sounded pretty happy with the number of downloads, but I’m not sure whether that number is a good or bad thing. There have been many problems with it already, and now one million people have already formed their opinion of the browser and may not be willing to go back and try it again after Apple corrects the problems and releases it out of beta.
I’m sure there are also many curious developers who wanted to get their hands on it, which is beneficial to Apple anyways. The more developers that start working with it, the more applications we’ll see made available for the iPhone which Apple is betting on to be the breadwinner.
Apple has already released an updated version, Beta 3.0.1. that includes security improvements. If you haven’t yet downloaded it, or you’d like to get the updated version, you can download that here. (Thanks for the tip Cory!)
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Tags: Software, Apple, Downloads, Microsoft, Safari, Screenshots
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Ryan/Ashley your download link for Beta 3.0.1 is not working due to the extra ” at end of the URL
Thanks for pointing that out Richard… it’s fixed!
I downloaded it, tried it, it was crap, I un-installed it!
They’re not tracking the people who uninstall it though, which is probably 990,000.
ha ha ha, it’s funny because it’s true.
Lol!! Well I downloaded and tried and I really don’t like it too much I like Firefox way better, but it does server it’s purpose as I can test out my sites with it.
The browser is a POS! I downloaded and it crashed while rendering its default homepage, uninstalled that POS since it didn’t even work. And you can’t even configure it to use a Proxy, they have that setting grayed out, guess that’s why its a BETA! Stay away from it, or at least until they get a stable release!
Just what I was thinking. Since I got nothing to do today (that and it is already over 100 outside), I will go ahead and play with this a little.
Ah yes, Apple software..I see the default download would include QuickTime.
Okay, I tried it out and even managed to crash it. Safari Test Drive
Looks like it didn’t take long for it to crash, I had better luck with Firefox Alpha! Well I would suggest people to stick with Firefox or Opera for the time being, at least both of Firefox and Opera meld with the OS better…and not stick out like a soar thumb.
I was surprised it lasted as long as it did. The worst browser as for crashing I had was Netscape 8.
There’s no denying that!