what about safari? new apple browser:

i see apple pushing the Safari browser, anyone have any experience,? is it worth changing to it? thanks in advanc e

It seems faster than M$ IE for Macintosh. It plays nice with most of the websites I visit.

What I did notice that the little JAVAscript buttons you see when you post to the CreativeCOW.net that enable you to embed URL's and such are missing, but I must say I just checked M$ IE 5.2 for OS X and they don't show up there either. Those additional buttons show up in M$ Windows browsers.

I like the way it handles bookmarks. It has an iTunes feel for organizing and handling your bookmarks.

I also like browsing webpages in tabs much like the browser for M$ Windows http://www.irider.com.

The only con that has come to my attention is that you can't seem to send a webpage link from the browser directly. You have to open your email client manually and copy/paste the URL in a new message.

It is only 7MB download I think and is well worth a try.

TTFN,
HTH,
Bryce

PS I am OS agnostic and have used everything from DOS, Windows 3.11, SGI IRIX 4.0.5f, 5.3, 6.2, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and am absolutely in awe of Apple OS X 10.2.6 and all of its pieces and parts. I just setup up a NFS share on an old SGI O2 that has Liberty Paint on it. I did a Cmd+K to attached to it from my new OS X machine. I then typed nfs://192.168.1.8/usr2/liberty/AppleShareO2 and boom I was attached. I then did a Cmd+T from the new window of the attached share to place it in my Favorites and now that share is always available by double clicking the favorite icon for that share.

Bryce Whiteside
The only con that has come to my attention is that you can't seem to send a webpage link from the browser directly. You have to open your email client manually and copy/paste the URL in a new message.

Found this cool hint, may have been on macosxhints.com-

open the bookmarks page, make a new bookmark and paste this into the "address" field:

javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+escape(document.title)+'&BODY='+escape(location.href)

in the "name" field type email Link or whatever you wish to call it.

drag/copy this bookmark into your Bookmark Menu, the Bookmarks Bar or however many places are handy.

Go to a website; click on this bookmark as if a web URL. The script will open your default mail program, create a "new" message, paste the page's URL in the text field, place the text entry bar in the address field, and create a message Title based on the page's header.

Have had practically zero problems with Safari. There are a few rare pages here and there that still don't come up as they should, but no crashes, hiccups etc. The "quote" feature on COW worked for me the other day, today it doesn't (???).

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Chuck Reti
VIdeo Editor
Detroit MI

i say give it a shot because it seems everyone's experience has been different with it, but I've gone back to my old browser. I've had nothing but problems with Safari, most notably with how it handles the site i visit the most--the Cow. The beta did work better than version 1.0 for me, both they have both been too buggy to really use.
just one experience...

aaron