No, it’s actually based off of Konqueror.

I’ve never been that impressed with Safari. It always seemed a little feature-starved. I only started using it after Firefox came out, and so I had very high standards. Even my friends who have Macs generally chose Firefox!

Just one more development tool.

Other then its advertised speed, I personally really don’t see a need for it. I’m perfectly happy with Firefox, which offers a lot more functionality then this. Not only extensions, but themes as well. The bright blue scrollbars and elements are pretty ugly here on Windows, and the rest of the theme aint so great either. Firefox gives me more control over cookies then this, I prefer to make everything except certain sites a session cookie to be auto dumped on close. It scrolls really slowly for some reason. I can have any search engines I want in the search box in Firefox and not only Google and Yahoo. What else, uh, couple more things I can’t think of now. Overall, not bad, but no Firefox thats for sure.

I just tried it out, but it looks out of place with it’s Brush Metal theme and doesn’t flow well with the OS. It is fast though but I knew about that because of the alpha version of Switft browser.

But does Windows really need another browser?

Yeah, that was my first instinct as well. I guess the benefit would be that the interface is consistent over all operating systems.

Very true, when someone comes up with a good idea there are bound to be people to try to come up with their own versions. That Cover Flow is one of those things that seems really cool (kinda like Flip3D) but I can’t see it being too useful when flipping through files. Well, maybe it would be cool for images.

I was really impressed with Safari at first, and the speed improvements were noticeable for me. There were several draw backs but I’ll save that for my more detailed Safari article that I’m writing up.

I’m so hooked on Firefox’s extensions…Safari doesn’t have enough for me to switch.

I had a look at the Safari feature list and the only thing it seems to have over Fx is the speed advantage. Fx is fast enough for me as it is, and there’s no way I’m abandoning my extensions…

(Isn’t Safari based off Mozilla’s code anyway? It looks like it, beneath the colours.)

But does Windows really need another browser?