Se siete già degli utilizzatari del browser di casa Mozilla conoscerete i moltiplici vantaggi del Panda Rosso (a differenza di quanto molti credano, la parola Firefox non significa volpe di fuoco, ma indica il Panda rosso, che in inglese viene appunto chiamato anche firefox. Tuttavia il logo di Mozilla Firefox sembra che raffiguri l'immagine di una volpe con la coda infuocata, e lo stesso autore del logo, Jon Hicks, ha dichiarato di essersi ispirato ad un disegno giapponese raffigurante un panda, da Wikipedia) e se non lo siete vi invito oggi stesso a migrare al miglior browser in circolazione, in attesa delle pubblicazioni di Internet Explorer 8 e Safari 4.

Firefox 3 porta con sé miglioramenti all'interfaccia utente, inclusi cambiamenti al look and feel della versione per Windows Vista, XP, Mac OS X e Linux; correzioni e modifiche a funzionalità quali l'autocompletamento degli indirizzi, il backup e ripristino dei bookmark e lo zoom a piena pagina; correzioni e miglioramenti alla piattaforma per incrementare sicurezza, compatibilità con il Web e stabilità; e ulteriori migliorie alle performance, soprattutto relative al motore JavaScript.

Per leggere un articolo dettagliato sulle novità di Firefox 3 clicca qui.

Wordpress updated their software and have now rolled the update out to everybody who uses wordpress.com. One of the nicest things about the new update is that it works with Safari 3.1! Previously, I could use Safari to post but it didn't work very well.  For instance, line breaks would not work.  No matter how many times I pressed return the line would keep on flowing without so much as entering a space.

Hoorah!

—Brian

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Apple ha llevado a cabo una estrategia que nadie ha dejado escapar. En Apple Software Update, el programa de actualización de programas de la manzana en Windows, ha incluido la instalación de Safari 3.1 como otra más de esas actualizaciones.

¿Criticable? Bueno, no es impuesta su instalación ni a nadie creo que le moleste, así que en mi opinión es tan solo una peculiar manera de hacer publicidad. No entiendo, por tanto, el revuelo que ha habido en torno a ello.

Visto en Applesfera y ALT1040.

Mientras que en pasadas versiones del motor WebKi, Safari no mostraba bien las tipografías en Windows, la última versión del navegador de Apple ha incluido una importante mejora: soporte para el uso de Windows GDI, o lo que es lo mismo, no más problemas con las tipografías en sistemas Windows.

Este importante soporte ha sido ensombrecido por la polémica surgida a raíz de una frase mal expresada de la licencia de uso de Safari 3.1, que parecía especificar que era ilegal usar Safari en Windows, algo inexplicable que solo excluiría casos como ejecutarlo a través de BootCamp o de un programa de virtualización. Sin embargo, en Ars Technica se pusieron en contacto con los responsables de Apple, que poco después les confirmaron que, efectivamente, la licencia contenía un error.

Fuente: www.theinquirer.es

 A Apple devia ter um pouco de mais cautela ao adotar um método agressivo ao quase obrigar a instalação do seu Browser o Safari em maquinas Windows através duma actualização do Itunes. Como a tempestade nao vem apenas com água mas traz uma serie de problemas atrás eis que surgem ja duas vulnerabilidades de segurança que permitem execução de codigo arbitrario na maquina alvo.

A primeira está relacionada na forma como o Safari maneja mal nomes longos de arquivos sendo baixados. A segunda tem a ver com a possibilidade de se realizar Spoofing de websites confiaveis colocando em risco usuarios iniciantes, além duma possivel capacidade de se realizar phishing.

Ao que consta até agora a solução da Apple é uma recomendação de se manter afastado de websites ditos 'nao confiaveis'.

I'm currently developing a site that uses a very common technique of tiling a background image on the body tag in css.

I tested the site in Safari 3.1 for Windows and the image would not display. It works fine in all other browsers.

I then moved the css for the background image into a div tag that wraps the entire site and hey presto it works as expected. I didn't give it much more though until just now.

I've just been to look at Adobe's new Photoshop Express website in Safari 3.1 for windows and they have exactly the same problem. Nice to know I'm in good company!

They are using the same technique e.g.

body {

background-image:url(assets/landing/background.jpg);

background-repeat:repeat;

}

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I can't show you my site as it's still in development, but the Photoshop Express site is here www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

After only a few days I returned to Firefox. Here's why:

1. Multi-tabbed Home:

In Firefox I have my three favorite starting places set as my Home pages.  Call me greedy, but I open these three sites every time I get on the web, so I might as well have my browser open them right away, no?  Safari wouldn't let me.  At least I couldn't figure out how.

2. RSS subscription handling:

When I find a new site I want to subscribe to, I want to add it to my iGoogle page.  It's my main home page and I like to see all my RSS feeds on that page.  A great new feature of Safari 3.1 is the way it handles RSS feeds right in Safari, but I want to have a choice as to where I read my feeds.  Safari doesn't ask me.  This reminds me of why I switched from using iWeb to WordPress.  Control.  Steve Jobs makes things nice and easy for folks, but he is a bit of a control freak.  This is not news to anyone I am sure, but I do get frustrated when I grow beyond the nice and easy ilife stuff and go looking for where I can save my iWeb as HTML and its just not there.  Or when I want to set Safari to let me add my RSS subscriptions to my iGoogle page and it just does what it wants.  Firefox asks me nicely if I want to add a new feed to iGoogle or Google Reader.  Thanks Firefox.

3. Downloads Button:

Finally, (and this is a little thing but I use it a lot) there's the "Downloads" button on my Firefox toolbar.

I like this button. I missed it in Safari.  I download things a lot.  Maybe I am funny that way.  But I like to check on their progress and I like having this little button right up there where I can get to it without having to go to the Window menu and choose Downloads.  Too many clicks, that.  So I tried adding a button like that to my Safari toolbar.  No can do.

I have not mentioned plug-ins (Firefox has them and Safari doesn't) or GreaseMonkey scripts (ditto) because I don't use them.  But It is nice to know that I can, if I want, seek out a new feature and install it in Firefox.

For me, these things, while not terribly important, are enough to make me use Firefox 3 over Safari 3.1.  They are small things, but they are important to me.  If anyone can tell me in the comments how to set Safari to open several tabs when it launches or add a new tolbar button for the Downloads window I guess I might give Safari another try.  Otherwise, I might as well use the one that does what I want. Right?  Sorry Steve.

Ayer, curiosamente, me había pasado como hacía tiempo que no lo hacía por el blog, y me dije que los de Cupertino se habían olvidado de su navegador para Win. Pues mira tú, casualidades de la vida, descubro minutos después que Apple acaba de liberar Safari 3.1. Y le quitan la etiqueta de "beta".

He estado un buen rato probándolo y he de decir que es un placer usarlo. Una pena que le falten funcionalidades de Firefox como los tan ansiados complementos (echo en falta AdBlock), y no se pueden importar/exportar ni historial ni feeds.

Aún así podemos notar una mejora en la estabilidad (creo que la característica más destacable), y la creo que aparición de utilidades para desarrolladores en la nueva pestaña "Desarrollo". Y un auténtico placer lo de arrastrar archivos y la integración con iTunes. Me quedo en Safari hasta que necesite Firefox, he dicho.

¡Ah! Y, al fin, en español.

Descarga | Safari 3.1

Más información | Apple - Safari (en inglés aún estando en la página española)

Esta version para Windows si abre apple.com

Apple acaba de lanzar la nueva versión 3.1 de su navegador: Safari. Disponible también para Windows esta versión promete abrir las paginas webs mucho mas rapido que los acuales 2 navegadores más populares (IE y FF), además de ejecutar JavaScript hasta seis veces más rápido que sus competidores.

Descarga Safari 3.1

fuente: vnunet

In versie 3.1 van Safari is er voor de rest niet veel veranderd die je kunt zien. In de software zijn wel een aantal dingen aangepast. Zo is er een beveiligingslek weggepoetst  er is aan de stabiliteit, compatibiliteit en de performance van javascript gewerkt.

Download Safari Browser 3.1 [18,6 mb]

According to Apple's staff,  Safari 3.1 is the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.  In addition to loading web pages 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2, Safari 3.1 runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers.

It's to be noted that several tests have been made comparing the performance speed of Firefox 3 Beta 4 with other well known web browsers, and every time it came in first.  The specific test was Apple's SunSpider JavaScript and these were the results of the first three places:

Available for free download for Mac OS X and Windows, Safari 3.1 is also the browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences.

Among it's many stability and security improvements, Safari 3.1 boasts being the fastest and easiest to use browser for Windows as well as being a vast improvement on the already impressive Mac version.

Download the best browser money can't buy, for Windows and Mac, from apple.com/safari now! -- Give it a week, and you'll wonder how you lived without it!

Boo.

*turns off the visual rich editor... AGAIN* Seriously ... dude ... hand-coding html is so ... like ... 90's.

Post Script - The conspiracy nut in me wonders if they don't fix this on purpose because, as Mac users, we're "supposed" to be using their iLife application for blogging....

UPDATE:
WordPress' new dashboard uses TinyMCE 3.0 and seems to have fixed everything.  Yay!

Trying to use the "code" button funks everything up. It takes out all formatting so Safari is still basically useless on Wordpress. Actually I just had to copy and past this over to firefox because it even dis-formats your post when you try to publish.

I think I'll have to download it onto the Dell as well. Internet explorer is so freaking slow on that piece of crap it drives me insane. It could also be that its two years old and it's used up like an old prostitute. When you download the Safari beta it says there is an "auto find" which I can't seem to find. In firefox you can set the preferences to find something on a page by just type and it'll find it. That feature is awesome because you don't have to hit command F to get the "Find" box up.But so far I love the speed, but other than that I really can't find much difference.

Anyways this is all great news today with Apple. Considering I dropped $50,000 into Apple yesterday (see previous post) I ended up making almost a thousand for the day and today I visited Mac Rumors and there was some more really good news. They are reporting that Apple's PC marketshare is up 14% for February....YEAH. Notebooks up 64% and Laptops up 55% year over year. Apple continues to grow baby. I'm kind of curious to see how the stock reacts today.

Roger

If you're using Safari 3 Beta on Windows XP it may develop a nasty habit of crashing as soon as it launches. This is certainly something that a lot of people experienced as soon as the Beta was released in June, but it seems to have resurfaced in later versions in December.

I experienced this with version 3.0.4. (3.523.12.9) just before going away for the holidays. I hadn't installed a new version of the browser, it just stopped working one day. So now I'm back from holidays I've had a chance to sort the problem out and noticed that other people seemed to be having the same problems around mid December.

The short answer is that you need to install Safari 3.0.5, but that's not available at the usual address of apple.com/safari which is still carrying version 3.0.4.

You can download it from the Apple developer website (registration required, but free).

You login, choose downloads and then in the menu on the right, choose Safari.There's been a lot of interest in this post so it seems that quite a few people are experiencing this problem. Let me know how you get on in the comments sections and if this new download has cleared up your problems. Also see the comments below about uninstalling and removing old content first.