Safari on Windows !

Safari for windows ! Well one more company realized the importance of web and launched windows version of their browser. I downloaded the browser few days back and it gave the same feeling I was having when I first ran AOE II in my GNU/Linux box using Wine. yea, that artificial look. I expected better experience from an Apple product. It also gives me the feel of good old phoenix (when FF was a sleek cut down version of mozilla). As Apple claims, its pretty stable and fast for a beta product. (Never crashed in last 1 week) Looks like its far better than Firefox in Memory usage.

Here is some Apple safari on windows XP screen shots:






I was wondering where safari will fall if I rate the browsers. That made me think about Firefox. Gone are the days when it was a sleek fast browser which was called a fast cut down version of Mozilla. With Google embrassing FF for their endless range of products and with crazy memory management, looks like FF has lost the charm it had. I remember myself searching for "light weight browser" or so in Google and ending up downloading phoenix for a GNU/Linux server in the college computer center. (Other options were dillo and w3m)

Why Google comes as the default option in Firefox's search box ?

I think in Phoenix it was dmoz.org

Why assortment of Google applications, say Google Gears supports only FF and IE and not Opera, Flock etc ?

Firefox is definetly not the best browser available. I think its Opera that deserves the best browsers crown. Then I like Flock too. It has a sleak interface and they way its integrated with flickr is pretty interesting. Oh! yea, in Flock Yahoo is the default search engine. :)

Finally lets list the browsers in the order of preference:

1. Opera : the only browser which gives importance to comply with standards and not to rely on 'monopoly'.
2. Seamonkey : Oh! yea Good old Mozilla / Netscape
3. Flock : not that bad
4. IE6 (I have tried IE7 and for me its damn slow !)
5. Firefox : much hyped !
6. Safari : sleek infant but definitely better than FF in memory management

(No, I haven't forgotten lynx. But I think there is no need to rate this tool ! isn't it ?)

Update: Phoenix is still available here :)