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Monday, June 25, 2007

Safari - oooh… shiny…

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Jonathan Rothwell @ 19:17

I am happy to say that Apple has now updated Safari so older Athlon processors can run it.
Well. Apple issued the update, but it wasn’t installed automatically. I had to give it a little kick start (read that as going into the Start menu, finding the Apple software updater and looking for the updates, telling it to download them, accepting the license agreement and waiting for it to install.)
I am now typing this in Safari. And it’s sooooooooo fast you would not believe.  It’s pretty, well thought-out, has some wonderful features and is exactly the sort of browser I need. True, it is a little buggy (this is the second time I’ve had to type this - when testing the bookmarks feature, it forgot the Wordpress ‘write post’ page even existed) and rough around the edges, but I can see a great bit of software coming out of it at the end.
And for once we have a browser that doesn’t pester you if it isn’t your system’s default Internet browser, media player, shell, teapot, etc. Impressive, especially by Apple’s standards.

edit: oh no, I spoke too soon. Safari decided to remove all the line breaks from this post in the WYSIWYG editor, so I’m having to insert them in old fashioned, clunky HTML… Safari is still good though.



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  1. edit: oh no, I spoke too soon. Safari decided to remove all the line breaks from this post in the WYSIWYG editor, so I’m having to insert them in old fashioned, clunky HTML… Safari is still good though.

    ^^ I hear that! it’s the same on the mac too, it’s only a small thing but i just find it annoying that I have to crank up firefox whenever I want to blog!

    Comment by benharker — Monday, August 6, 2007 @ 13:22

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