Just been trying out Apple's new Windows version of their Safari web browser. I think at present I'll definately be returning to Firefox.

Rendering

On this site alone, it's rendering of bold text looks awful and it manages to overlap/cutoff parts of vBulletin's 'Go Advanced' post editor.

Screenshots below (lossless PNG's, click to view full size)







Ease of Switching

IE,Firefox and Opera have all settled on using this symbol for RSS feeds . Many websites also use the icon and it has become effectively a standard icon to indicate feeds. Safari for some bizzare reason have decided instead to use

In Firefox and IE (possibly Opera also) double-clicking on the tab-bar would open a new tab. This doesn't work in Safari.

Firefox2 and Opera9 both put the x to close a tab on the right-hand side of the tab. Internet Explorer7 and Firefox1 puts a single x on the far right of the screen. Safari on the other hand follows neither method preferring to put the x on the left-hand side of the tab. Those used to the FF2 method (like me) will probably end up closing the tab next to the one they want to a few times.

The single biggest issue I have though is that the backspace key doesn't take you back a page! I've got so used it as it's worked like that since I first started using the internet back when IE3 & Netscape were the norm.

Features
The 'snapback' feature allows you to return to a specific point in the tabs history (default set to the first page you visit). Nice idea, but I've got into the habit of opening a link in a new tab if I want to return to the original page.

Another slightly weird feature is that when you have two tabs open with the same word at the start of the page title, it'll remove that word. Have a look at the example below - the tabs are Safari's wikipedia page ["Safari (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"] and a Google search for Safari ["Safari - Google Search"]

It shows as follows: