Safari on Windows

Everyone is talking about it. I thought I'd chime in. It's really fast. Not sure what Joel was talking about as it was never slow for me even when starting up. But I'm on Windows XP SP2. I agree with Jeff Atwood that the font is weird. I have used a few Macs before but I have never noticed it, maybe it's more obvious because he mentioned it or because I am running it on Windows so I can compare it to the native Windows look and feel.

However, I don't see myself using Safari that much for a lot of reasons. First, it doesn't have that native feel and a few shortcuts I have tried in the few minutes I have been using it don't work.

• Ctrl+Enter to fully expand a URL from “apple” to “www.apple.com”
  
• Ctrl+Tab to switch between tabs in the browser.
  
• Alt+Space+x to maximize a window.
  

Those are the ones I have tried and I tried them not because I was looking to test them but because I am used to them and I expected them to work without thinking twice. This could be frustrating for someone who knows and depends on shortcuts. I know this is a beta and they would sort out the issues later but still...

Another reason why I might not use it a lot is because of the number of Firefox extensions I have come to depend on.  Enough said. But you never know!!! Right now, my browsing is shared between Firefox and IE because of Firefox's memory issues.

As a Software Engineer / Web developer, this is very good as I now have access to the four major grade A browsers on my Windows box. Cool. I am assuming that the rendering and everything is the same for Safari in both Windows and the Mac so there shouldn't be any problems in testing something for Safari on the Windows and it then breaking on the Mac.