Apple Safari Browser

Interested to know if anyone has more info on the Apple Safari Browser for Windows I have just installed it and had a play around with it, it is very fast and simple but I also would like to know how it stands up Security wise and is it stable, it did not play up on me in the hour or so I played around with it but then that does not mean much.
thanks

 

Hi Steve, I did a bit of Googling on it before I installed and that's what made me more curious so I installed it, not with the intension to replace IE7 or Firefox, but merely to try out, and I must say I was impressed with the speed and simplicity. But I would have liked to hear from real users on they're experiences and opinions I find Reviewers are always biased one way or another.

 

Thank you Steve much appreciated. Might take a bit longer for the not so good bits to Filter trough.

 

Thanks Steve, I have now been using it since I first posted and it's kinda growing on me.
I guess having a third browser is not going to do any harm.

 

Steve I just come across this article about Safari 3.1

Apple Releases Safari 3.1 and Scores of Updates
Apple released version 3.1 of the Safari web browser, including the first shipping version for Windows, and a large number of security updates. Apple describes Safari as the "the world's fastest web browser for Mac(R) and Windows PCs. "
Safari 3.1 itself contains a large number of security updates, fixing 13 bugs in the previous beta version. Some these are only in the older Windows version, having been fixed in earlier OS X fixes, but most affect all versions of Safari.
Security Update 2008-002 for OS X is massive, covering, by my count, 87 vulnerabilities, as measures by the CVE identifiers listed. This may, in fact, set a record for a single update. A large number of the updates are for externally-developed components of OS X: the Apache server, ClamAV, curl, emacs, Kerberos, libc, PHP and X11. Many of the updates affect just OS X 10.4.x or 10.5.x. But many are in core Apple components and affect all currently supported versions of OS X (10.4.x, 10.5.x).
Apple has a deserved reputation for taking time to issue updated versions of vulnerable *NIX components. 44 of the vulnerabilities fixed in this update have CVE numbers from 2007, 4 from 2006 and 2 from 2005. The oldest of these, CVE-2005-3352,was fixed by Apache in 2005.

 

Here are source links for those who like to know where the quoted information above came from.

• Steve's Source
  http://www.techimo.com/forum/t204746.html

• hawk's Source
  http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/03/apple_releases_safari_31_and_s.php