Apple extends Web browser to Windows
- Thread starter Larry Rutledge
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I will give it a shot. Firefox has been seriously cheesing me off lately. Too many incompatibilities.
Terry_Lasater
All about the Caption
You are fast, young LarryR. I was about to post the same news. :thumbsup:
Well, two things off the bat:
1) As usual, you have to download/install Quicktime with it.
2) It doesn't work. It's a beta version, I know, but there's no useful functionality.
There are no drop-down menus evident. They're there -- you can highlight buttons -- but the menus are blank. You also can't type anything into the address bar.
Take a look -- notice the highlighted link button, but no text, and no text not only in the browser controls, but in the web page, either, except in JPEGs/GIFs:
I uninstalled/reinstalled. Same thing.
If anyone's got any suggestions, let me know, because I'd like to spend some time actually USING it before I make any decisions . . .
1) As usual, you have to download/install Quicktime with it.
2) It doesn't work. It's a beta version, I know, but there's no useful functionality.
There are no drop-down menus evident. They're there -- you can highlight buttons -- but the menus are blank. You also can't type anything into the address bar.
Take a look -- notice the highlighted link button, but no text, and no text not only in the browser controls, but in the web page, either, except in JPEGs/GIFs:
I uninstalled/reinstalled. Same thing.
If anyone's got any suggestions, let me know, because I'd like to spend some time actually USING it before I make any decisions . . .
Well, just clicking around random invisible buttons, I can get to preset links like Amazon, eBay, etc.. I will say this -- the pages may not have text, but they do load a lot faster than Firefox or IE.
I still like my Opera 9.2 with SpeedDial. It is Sexy.
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Max R. Wilson
Stream Master
I just installed it and it works but for some reason if i try to maximize it on my middle screen it jumps to the 3rd screen... And since i do most my browsing on the middle screen I'm gonna stick with FF until that problem is fixed.
MiniMan13
Well-known member
Looks horrible, 0 good plug ins, No new features, Gives me a headache because of clear type font thing?, Doesn't work well with dual monitors, doesn't resize correctly, Doesn't support middle click scrolling, Horrible page rendering, somehow has changed colors of some of the sites i visit, no Decent WMV support. Do i need to say more, or should i just do this.
www.getfirefox.com - This isn't a mac or PC thing, this is a Good thing.
www.getfirefox.com - This isn't a mac or PC thing, this is a Good thing.
oneinfiniteloop
Veteran
Well, it is beta. Clear type is a Miscrosoft thing from the OS, has nothing to do with Safari...IE7 uses it.
MiniMan13
Well-known member
Its not cleartype, its somthing else, but this does suck alot even in beta...
HorseFilms
Look ma no hands
I noticed that all the type on this site is slightly blurry if I use Safari. Everything is normal on Firefox.
HorseFilms
Look ma no hands
This didn't take long:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132796-page,1/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132796-page,1/article.html
I've ditched it. I'll try it again when it's not beta.
Work fine for me and its seems faster. 
im happy.
im happy.
MiniMan13
Well-known member
i dunno.... it really honestly works great. Somethin was wrong, with my firefox and IE7. they couldnt show embedde video, like youtube, QT, flash, etc....
In safari it works great!
In safari it works great!
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
I prefer "healthy" extensions myself :grin:Barry_S said:
I installed it, it opened fine, but when I tried to browse to any site it caused an error and shut itself down. Uninstalled and will happily continue using Firefox.
Terry_Lasater
All about the Caption
I will continue using Safari as I'm on a Mac and it works like a champ for me. That is to say... text loads fine, fast, plays embedded videos, no e-commerce problems, etc.