Browsing opportunities: 11 Web browsers tested


Contents
Introduction
Avant Browser
Camino
Faststone
Firefox
Internet Explorer
iRider
Netscape
Opera
Safari
Secondary Browser
UltraBrowser
Specifications
Editor's choice
About RMIT

Safari

This is the standard browser supplied with the Apple Mac operating system. Menus and toolbars are satisfactory, but there are few options for customisation. Tabbed browsing is supported as is a Google search bar, but page zooming is not available. History appears as items in the history menu. One thing Safari does have going for it is speed; as you would expect, Apple is able to optimise it to suit their own operating system. Safari developers work with the Open source community, thus it is Mozilla-Gecko compatible.

It is a fairly basic browser, but it gets the job done. Being part of the Mac operating system, it is covered by the customer support for Mac OS X, there is no additional charge associated with downloading it -- although Apple does track who downloads.




Product Safari 1.2
Price Free download
Vendor Apple
Phone 133 622
Web www.apple.com.au/safari/download
 
Interoperability
Mac OS language support.
Futureproofing ½
Standards compliant, secure, regular updates.
ROI
Reasonable features.
Service
Support covered under OS.
Rating
Safari
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