October 29, 2007...11:07 am
Safari 3 for Windows Still In Beta
**** UPDATE Update: 19 March 08 Safari 3.1 for Windows is out of Beta and available from www.apple.com/safari ****
I had hoped that the release of Apple’s latest incarnation of its operating system, OS X 10.5 Leopard, last Friday would mean that Safari 3 would finally come out of Beta, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.
It’s not just the Windows version that is still in Beta either. The free download from the Apple web site still seems to be in Beta for the Mac as well.
Safari 3 on Windows seems stable enough now after the font display problems experienced back in June but I’m wondering what they are waiting for. Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 release dates are just around the corner and there are even rumours that IE8 will surface some time soon. Perhaps they’re waiting to see what the competition has to offer before committing to their own final version. I just hope this isn’t another perpetual Beta…
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[UPDATE November 2007: apparently Leopard has Safari 3.0.4 installed, the version number of which differs from the one you can download from the apple site which is 3.0.3.It also seems that there are some font display issues with Safari on Leopard because a lot of the people arriving at this site recently have done so because they are searching for a solution to this problem.3.0.4 is available from the developer section of the Apple website, see this post ]
1 Comment
November 6, 2007 at 10:25 pm
yes, Apple guys are waiting for featureas from Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 to take those features and apply them on Safari…then, there will be a Keynote with Mr Jobs, saying that Safari is the best browser on earth because of those features….let me laugh please.
Maybe Firefox 3.0 will be released soon, say early 2008. But believe when I say that Opera will take longer to release 9.5 Final.
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