Safari Hits Windows - Problems Rife
So Safari on Windows… Rocks. Ironic all the same, that the first website I open (the Apple.com website) renders horribly in Safari running on Vista. Unfortunately… It’s not just Apple.com having problems. Images on all website render great. The kicker comes in the form of text not showing. Amazon. Apple. TechZi. It gets worse… NO text is showing. It’s not just website content. Menu buttons, bookmarks, feeds, browser navigation, the works. Anyone else having the same problems? Pictures after the jump…
All this said… Browsing without words is quite an experience - if you’re a Windows user, you should probably try it. That said, I much prefer my video/picture/text based browser as standard. Firefox wins, I’m afraid… Installation wasn’t exactly brilliant too, however that’s down to Vista’s lovely “Windows Account Control”. I love security. I’m paranoid, as it happens. WAC? WHACK. Microsoft, in their tighter security frame of mind still haven’t eliminated the need for anti-virus (having contracted 2 trojans after switching to Vista) and at the same time, have managed to make the whole ‘Wow’ far less impressive.
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June 11th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Can’t say I was getting those problems, but I am running XP. VIsta has detected the Apple.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
It looks good in XP. I installed it under Parallels on my MacBook Pro
June 11th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
It looks like problems with the fonts on your computer… I’ll try to test Safary in the VMWare WinXP.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:34 am
My install went fine, but the program crashed and gave me the error reporting message before it even loaded. All I saw was a quick flash of the bookmarks bar.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Eeek - problems truly ‘are’ rife, in that case. We’ll be launching a whole little Safari/Vista bug reporting community at this rate.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I can’t believe the Apple still haven’t sorted their software to work with Vista. I tried to install QuickTime a while back and that crashed and the same is true for Safari. I doubt I will ditch Firefox anyway as I just love the addons such as the Webmaster tool bar, useragent switcher, firebug and the html validator. However I do want to download it to be able to test clients’ websites. What a pain!
June 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Hey Ian - Yeah, I had the same problem with Quicktime quite a bit ago. Not though I’ve got it running fine.
I had quite a bit of trouble installing Safari on Vista (aside from the missing fonts), but I somehow feel Microsoft is to blame.
Unlike Ron - who had a perfect install, only to be greeted by a non-functioning browser. Typical!
Great to see you around here Ian… Kudos.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Just noticed this on the register site-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/safar_crashing_experience/
Looks like this is a big problem!
June 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Apple’s excuse? “Beta.”
June 12th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Oh and Ian… I’m using the exact same FF extensions as you, but Search Status and Greasemonkey both cut the list for me.
Search Status lets me easily compare PageRank, Alexa (though useless - interesting) and Compete rankings. Greasemonkey is generally more useful on sites like Digg where I can auto-display ‘Duggmirror’ links next to each article, should the site have gone down.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Mmm, have to have a look at those. Not looked at Greasemonkey got a while. I use the GooglePageRank add-on, serverspy and as I have just got into microformats I use operator too. I am such a geek!
June 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I second that…
SearchStatus is essential for me though, as a webmaster, and as a means of comparing site statistics, measuring PR, etc.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
[…] After my initial problems, things have only got worse. Granted - one website now shows text (CNN), but seeing as I now can’t type URLs into my address bar, type queries into my search area, read my menus (at all) and even browse most websites, I’ve switched back to Firefox. For good. […]
June 12th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Safari looks good, but im sticking to firefox.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Um… Good?
June 13th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Have you people forgotten what beta actually means? It’s a testing release! I would never expect beta software to work straight out of the box on every system. Give it time, have patience.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I’ll say again, there’s a BIG difference between ‘beta’ and ‘unusable’, especially when the browser is advertised as Vista-compatible.
Yuvi could create a brilliant browser in a few hours… Lightweight, feature full, and far more speedy than FF, IE, Opera, Safari, Netscape, or any other browser I can pretty much think of. He’s one heck of a prodigy. Just ask him.
Nice e-mail BTW, Shaun: spam@shaunrowe.com
June 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
BTW…Here’s the Fix Safari for Windows’ missing fonts
http://www.noheat.com/2007/06/13/fix-safari-for-windows-missing-fonts/
June 14th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
You’re my hero!
But seriously - if Apple expects me to go and rename sys files, this, that, HKEY, Steve’s mothers iPhone batteries AND then try again? They’ve gotta be joking.
I’ll be waiting for an official Apple apology, bundled with a Mac to run Safari flawlessy on.
June 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
[…] TechZi - Safari Hits Windows - Problems Rife All this said… Browsing without words is quite an experience - if you’re a Windows user, you should probably try it. That said, I much prefer my video/picture/text based browser as standard. Firefox wins, I’m afraid… […]