SillyDog701

[Antony]

Apple released an update to Safari 3 Public Beta, version 3.0.3 Beta. This update adds latest security updates and improved stability on Windows platform.

Apple also mention some new upcoming features, including support for International users, localised menus and help, FTP directory listings etc.

Changes in Safari 3.0.3 for Windows beta:

• Latest security updates
• Improved stability

Changes in Safari 3.0.3 for Mac OS X beta:

• Latest security updates

Coming Soon

• Support for International users
• International text input methods
• Advanced text (contextual forms, international scripts)
• Localized menus and help
• NTLM support
• PAC file auto-detection
• FTP directory listings
• Link to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
• Cookie management
• LiveConnect support
• Tooltips
• Spell checking
• Printing page numbers, titles, margins

Safari 3.0.3 Beta can be downloaded from Safari 3 Public Beta.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

[Antony]

Screenshot of Safari 3.0.3 (Public Beta) on Mac OS X 10.4.10.



Somehow, it looks very similar to Safari 2. I guess I am a Mac user...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.12.1

[Fulvio]

I hope that this Safari version will work a bit better than the last one. I installed it without Bonjour, which I did not need, and, after importing all my bookmarks it really dragged my WinXP. I have never seen anything using about half of my RAM, i.e over 250 MB. And, there are no Tabs, which can be saved for next installation, nor addons. I am using NS7.2, which runs at 63 MB. Firefox, which is loaded with addons and tabs uses 75MB.
I will check everything, and this will be a clean install. We will see.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Fulvio]

Much better, at 56 MB. Still a slowpoke. No "blazing speed" here.
And, I may have been able to save the present tabs in the bookmarks toolbar. I may get used to Safari, after all.
But, only choice to remove History is manual? I found it (History|Clear History). And, the program locked up when I selected to empty Cache. It, eventually, shut down, but I don't like all this potential bloat, which I don't care to carry along.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5

[Antony]

Safari 3 has been really stable for me, no crashes so far.

As for speed, it's hard to notice, but I can say there's definitely some small improvement over Safari 2. That's on a Mac.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.12.1

[Fulvio]

Antony,
as I have only a pc, I would not know what previous version were like. 3.0.3 takes a very long time loading complicated pages, such as Apple's own, but it is fine otherwise.
It never crashed on me. The only misbehavior has been with emptying Cache. It, first, asked me if I was sure that I wanted to empty it. When I said yes, it took over one minute during which I could do nothing. I would call it a lock up, but may be it was just slow slow. That was the Cache from 2 hrs. use. I did Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring it to its senses. I never tried to empty Cache, since.
I found that I can accumulate Tabs, but do not reappear, unless I save them. Then, they will reappear. I cannot add to these saved tabs, but I can save the entire thing as another Tab.
Apparently, it does not not matter if I give the bookmarks a different name or not. It starts with Saved Tabs, and, eventually, I changed it to Saved Tabs1. And, I delete the older "personal bookmark". This saved tabs is to the left of the donated personal bookmarks, or whatever is that open book in the toolbar.
ok, I tried to empty Cache, again, this morning. I was using Safari for less than 30 min.
It took about 25 sec before the "are you sure" popup went away.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

[Fulvio]

I noticed that I have to login at sites, even if I see the login parameters, and, checked to save the info. I went to look at the cookies, and the button was grayed out.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5