Dear Apple,
Would you please quit making your software ask me if I want to install more of your software? All I wanted was to watch a Quicktime movie and now you ask me every couple of weeks if I want to install iTunes, if I want to install Bonjour, if I want to install Safari. You don’t let me say “no,” instead you just keep asking me. Well, here’s my answer: NO! I don’t want to install all that. I’m happy with Firefox and WinAmp. I enjoy having a physical CD that I can rip the songs off of whenever I end up losing them due to my children screwing up my computer. I have no clue what Bonjour does, but I probably already have something that do

Ok, so I’m not much of a Mac person – I prefer Linux but have to use Windows at work – but I decided to download Safari and take it for a test drive. Normally I use Firefox, the only time I use IE is if the website requires IE – primarily internal sites at work that depend on IE specific hacks or the old MS JVM (and then I use the IETab extension for Firefox to load IE in a Firefox tab).

My experience using Macs has been pretty brief, mainly back when I was in college or when I’d wander into Schlotzsky’s and surf the web on their free boxen. (Side note: my old site design caused Safari 2.x to crap out and reload the site constantly, locking up the browser)

So here’s my observations of Safari 3 beta on Windows.

• Pretty. I’ll give Apple this much- they know how to make things simple and elegant.
• Inconsistent. Some buttons on the web page are rounded, some are square, some are 3D, some are 2D. Not sure if that is the fault of Safari or if the pages I observed this on were using a combo of images and buttons.
• Slow. Page rendering times felt slower than Firefox. (No, I didn’t break out the stop watch)
• Clobbers the taskbar. If you have the window maximized and the taskbar set to autohide + always_on_top, moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen doesn’t bring up the taskbar. You have to either press the Windows key or un-maximize the window.
• Breaks some keyboard shortcuts. In WordPress, you can press [ALT]+[A] while writing a post to embed a link. That doesn’t work in Safari. Pressing [CTRL]+[B] doesn’t bold the selected text, it deletes it.

Overall opinion on first use: Nice eye-candy, but nothing to switch over.

I’ll try to keep using it for a few more days and see if my opinions change.

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