Safari on Windows: Your reports

submitting (forms with) a textarea containing double square brackets (or pipes or backslashes or ...) causes the text after the 'non-standard characters' to disappear. same thing apparently happens with 'international characters'.

removing and re-installing (version 3.0.1 on win xp belgian/dutch localization) did not help. submitted this in the webkit bugzilla (http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14165), hope this gets fixed.

I was hopeful about this because I'm a PC user but I have a lot of customers on my hosting service who use Mac, and I would like to be able to see what they're seeing during support calls.

I just installed 3.01 and unfortunately it's got nothing but problems:

- No text for the menus
- Several buttons and fields are blank
- Very slow to load
- Crashed 5 out of the 6 times I attempted to run it
- Completely un-useable even when it doesn't crash

I tested this on a very stable, very fast system (XP Pro SP2 fully updated, Pentium D Dual-Core 2.8Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM) that has absolutely no other problems and runs IE / FireFox / Opera perfectly.

I hope that Apple is able to resolve the issues, and I would love to see more Mac Apps come out with Windows versions to aid me in customer support.

Safari on Windows is the slowest browser available........uninstalling it after 30 min. of usage

Well, I still can't get Real Player plugin to actually kick in. The thing just downloads the file (even the small streaming one), without opening Real Player. And that's after downloading and reinstalling Real Player...

Anybody got Real Player plugin to work?

ML

Safari crashed my ENTIRE f'ing system before I even got to try it out. It was almost done installing on my WinXP SP2 laptop, when the whole thing just completely froze. I manually cycled through the power, and when it came back on, my computer was unbootable... couldn't get past the manufacturer's logo.

I am currently looking into LiveCD rescue methods. I realize that Betas are prone to crashes, but this to me just seems completely unstable. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all a campaign set out by Apple to switch more people over to Macs. Unbelievable.

It seems that many Safari instabilities are related to the local settings (language/localization). I was running it on a PC with WinXP SP2 in English but the local settings were for Portuguese and I had many crashes, including the one reported earlier about bookmarks not working. After changing it to English/USA it is much more stable.
The only big problem now is that it truncates text submitted where there are other special characters, like quotation marks or accented characters...

It looks grat, bat it's not possible to work with because of all its displayerrors. Not even yahoo.com works proparly.

Following up on my comment (Comment #105 in the list):I
+have Java working correctly on applets here:
http://www.segal.org/java/

Java still does not work here (but works in all other browsers on the same
machine, XP Pro SP2 with latest Java 6u1):
http://www.schubart.net/rc/

ML

Windows version a bust for me on a Dell laptop running NT SP2. No menus, no tabs.

Installed on Lenovo Z61 running XP Pro yesterday.

I agree with all those who posted complaining of blurry fonts. Microsoft ClearType looks excellent; Apple's antialiasing in Safari is disastrous. Disabling ClearType doesn't change anything.

Anyone know whether Apple's font smoothing can be turned off?