Safari Browser Released For Windows: Hacked In Minutes
Today saw the release of the public beta of Safari 3.0 for Windows (available for download here).
However, just hours after Apple released the beta, researcher Aviv Raff said he’d found a bug.
Bad news for Apple or just geek talk?
Raff said it took about three minutes of “fuzzing” to find the bug. To be fair though, he hadn’t tested the issue on Mac OS X so couldn’t say whether or not it affected Safari on Windows only.
The bug causes the browser to crash and “might be exploitable,” according to Raff, meaning it could possibly be used to run malware on the PC.
Early reports are not promising. These are all quotes I’ve found from various web sites today:
1. Safari certainly takes longer than Firefox and IE to install due to the bundled Quicktime.
2. Safari was pretty slow opening web pages.
3. It crashed several times in the first hour.
4. It kept shutting down when I tried to load Gmail.
I’ll be sticking with my trusty Firefox for the foreseeable future. It has way too much going for it and the multitude of third party add-ons makes it almost impossible to beat. To see what you’re missing, click on the banner to download the award winning Firefox Browser.
Update (6/12/07):
I’ve since discovered that point #1 is not a valid statement. There is a beta version of Safari for Windows XP and Vista available for download that doesn’t include Quicktime.
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June 11th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Stumbled my friend
June 12th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Seems like its only a matter of time with just about any release these day, huh? I’m a huge firefox fan (my main browser), but use IE a lot too in order to ensure that all “looks OK’.
Oh yeah, stumbled!
June 13th, 2007 at 12:04 am
I strongly agree with point #2. It surely did take a long time loading my blog for the first time compared to the newly revamped Netscape Web browser.
At the moment, this is a great addition for Web designers and developers. For everyone else, we’ll just have to wait until the final version is released.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Lets welcome Apple to the real world of computing! I can’t wait to see how can Apple do their “Job”, finally after a long wait they are facing Microsoft head on.
Let me just add a few errors I have found:
5. do a Find command on a website, amazingly it will highlight all words that match the find, but try to scroll down…the highlight portion remains on a static position.
6. http://www.google.co.jp will not be translated properly. you will just see lines on links.
7. each time I clicked the phonebook logo just below the next and forward buttons, i will get an error and the browser will close.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Thanks for the feedback everyone…
June 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I installed it yesterday without any problems!
It certainly seems faster at loading pages - at least to me, but I had to switch back to Firefox for the stumble tool bar!
June 14th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Stumbled also… too drunk to figure if this is a bad or good thing for the community.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Opera has been out forever and has had firefox beat by a long shot.
Will you be using opera anytime soon ?
Probably not.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
The only use for this that I can see is for web developers who run Windows or Linux. I’ve used Safari and really have never found anything pleasing about it.
I think I’ll go see if it works under Wine now.
June 14th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I also found it to be a little faster at loading webpages than Firefox. It’ll take a lot more than a few saved seconds to get me to switch though.
I support the whole thing though. It’s another standardised browser to stick into the side of Microsoft.