My own sites are seeing wars between Firefox and Safari. Each day the tally will change hands. Some days more for Firefox, some days more for Safari. IE is always in third place.

I still think that Apple should produce Safari for Windows.

That would be great. I think a lot of people would run it...

Mac users obviously can't upgrade to IE 6 so they use Safari or Firefox.

There is no reason to give Safari to the Windows platform. Firefox is faster on both mac and windows according to benchmarks. There is no benefit to Apple by doing that.

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Anonymous wrote:
There is no reason to give Safari to the Windows platform. Firefox is faster on both mac and windows according to benchmarks. There is no benefit to Apple by doing that.

My benchmarks made by my butt on the benches. I need to go to the bathroom.

Im using my Dualie 1.8 G5 and IE 5.2 crashes on me all the friggen time. I use safari AND ie in conjunction to dl more things at once....

Firefox is sounding better and better, i just like the good ol days of "Archie" "Veronica" "Gopher" and good ol Mosaic.

what? you use two browsers so you can "download more things at once"? are you retarded? do you think browsers don't let you download more than one "thing" at once?

drop IE for mac, forever.

Firstly, Mac represented 2% of global PC market. So max is 2%. Obviously, more Mac users decided to use Safari.

Internet browsers are old school. We are moving towards an era where connection to internet is in the background. So far, Apple had produced a few such applications:

- iTunes/iTMS
- Mail
- iChat
- iDisk

I'm looking forward for more such applications. Dashboard widget is a nice way to hide internet from us.

That is, no need to implement Safari for Windows.

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Mace wrote:
That is, no need to implement Safari for Windows.

I think it would still behoove Apple to build a Windows version of Safari. This would be another way to highlight Apple technology to the Windows hordes, just as they've done with iTunes.

OTOH, iTunes is directly tied to bringing in revenue, so I doubt Apple will incur the expense of making a Windows version of Safari.

I use Safari. I like Safari. But Safari was already getting lapped by Firefox a year ago. I know there's an update coming with Tiger, but seriously...Safari 1.X still seems like a Beta to me. A stable Beta, but a Beta nonetheless.

I also use Camino from time to time. Great browser. Can't wait for the first official release. Honestly, I think this is what Safari should be. Camino would be in a class by itself in the hands of Apple's interface designers.

And what is this Internet Explorer you speak of? I vaguely recall a dark day when I used such a thing, but it's all so hazy....

Mac user don't use

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Guest wrote:
Mac users obviously can't upgrade to IE 6 so they use Safari or Firefox.

Mac users wouldn't use IE 6 even if they could, because Safari and Firefox are better.

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Mace wrote:
Firstly, Mac represented 2% of global PC market. So max is 2%. Obviously, more Mac users decided to use Safari.

Not sure that number is valid for internet usage, even if it were true for computer sales (which is not necessarily the case, but that is a different discussion). I don't think anybody truly knows the Mac percentage of the global internet-using market. Webstats don't count, since many set the browser ID string to IE just to get past certain stubborn sites.

That the 2% includes machines without a browser like cashregisters and other simple "PCs". Apple has a higher market share among computer that are used as home/office computers (not much higher, but higher).

So it is possible for Safari to have over 2%.

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Billy K wrote:
I also use Camino from time to time. Great browser. Can't wait for the first official release. Honestly, I think this is what Safari should be. Camino would be in a class by itself in the hands of Apple's interface designers.

Amen. (Camino is already my default browser.)