Is anybody using Safari for Windows? Yes, they are – as evidenced by our own site’s usage stats.
We ran stats on our visitors’ browsers and operating systems for two specific time periods, June 1-10 (pre-Safari for Windows launch) and June 12-13 (through 1pm EDT today, post-Safari launch).
Interesting trends showed significant gains for Safari for Macintosh and, of course, Safari for Windows and significant losses for Internet Explorer for Windows, Firefox for Windows, and Firefox for Macintosh.
51% of all Safari users visiting MacDailyNews between June 12-13 (as of 1pm EDT) used Safari 3 Public Beta, 49% used previous versions of Safari.
MacDailyNews.com visitors’ browsers and operating systems:
June 1-10:
Safari / Macintosh – 54.02%
Internet Explorer / Windows – 15.23%
Firefox / Windows – 14.32%
Firefox / Macintosh – 10.92%
Camino / Macintosh – 1.83%
June 12-13:
Safari / Macintosh – 57.75% (+3.37)
Internet Explorer / Windows – 12.56% (-2.67)
Firefox / Windows – 11.67% (-2.65)
Firefox / Macintosh – 8.91% (-2.01)
Safari / Windows – 3.97% (+3.97)
Camino / Macintosh – 1.79% (-0.04)
Visits to MacDailyNews between June 1-June 13 (1pm EDT) remained consistent with our normal OS breakdowns, approximately 75% Mac OS X users (currently evenly split between PPC- and Intel-powered Macs) and 25% Windows users.
Admittedly, the timeframe we can measure for Safari for Windows is very short, so we’ll revisit this exercise in the near future.
I just reverted to Safari 2 on the Mac – the 3 beta is way too buggy to be usefull. I hate the dark highlighting too. Oh, and it forgets your autofill form info… not very good.
Interesting. What is the percentage of? 1,000 visitors? 10,000 visitors? 100,000 visitors? 1,000,000 visitors? Just curious to know.
I guess those 4% are closet Mac fans.
The real test is not whether it goes up short-term… that’s to be expected with people toying around with it, trying it out, and so on. The real test is whether those people continue to use it as their primary browser (or at least one of their primary browsers) once the initial “Ooh, new Safari!” and “Ooh, Safari on Windoze!” reactions wear off and people start missing their Firefox extensions and whatnot.
If you are going to use the Beta, be sure to remove any 3rd party InputManager or SImbl type products, as they are not yet compatible. Otherwise crashes occur.
Wish Apple had “sandboxed” the Beta, allowing both 2.0.4 and 3 to run concurrently. Would make for an easier Beta process.
Like any other Apple product, I’ll wait for an update or two for the bugs and kinks to get worked out, first.
Part of the reason is because there are mac users like myself that are forced to use windows at work. We downloaded Safari as soon as we could. I’ve been using it as much as possible just to do my small part to drive Ballmer over the brink.
well, since Safari for Windows release..the very I installed it on two of my companies PC…and currently I am at working writing this post in Safari on a Dell Crapper…go figure..
home though is a different story..I still use Safari 2 on my Mac.
The Windows/Safari crowd (if I may call 3.7% a crowd) is almost certainly those of us who are forced to use Windows at work but are Mac/Safari at home. As ‘Apple’ as we can be!
Strange, Safari 3 Beta works for me. Looks the same as 2. On one of my Macs the QuickTime didn’t work. I went to the Library in Macintosh HD and moved the QuickTime Plugin.webplugin to the desktop, re-opened Safari 3. Works fine. Replaced the QT Plugin to its original place. So far, so good.
Love the Find Banner and dragging a tab from one window to the next. Works really well.
Home Mac users forced to use Windows at work now using Safari at work.
Unfortunately Safari/Windows is pretty buggy. I get no text and cannot enter URLs.
I’ve been using Safari 3 since Monday on my new MacBook core 2 duo. I’m in that metric that was using Firefox 2 before Monday.
I’ve had mixed, but generally good results with Safari 3. I really like all the new features. It is buggy though. (Beta by definition.)
I tried Dan Eran’s Roughly Drafted site, and it was horribly hobbled in Safari 3. So, I returned to Firefox, where his site worked just fine.
Ah, to be pioneers on the digital frontier, sometimes we must suffer the slings and arrows of ghosts in the machine.
I will continue to “A/B” test both browsers and look forward to Safari 3 Golden Master in the not too distant future.
MW: ‘death’ — death = change, and that ain’t bad!
I’ve been using Safari/Mac 3.0 as my primary browser with no problems. Also installed on a XP machine and that went smoothly.
Safari sure is getting a bad rap from some people, but I guess that’s no different that before anyway. For me, it remains the best browser I’ve used in terms of web standards adherence and usability. Camino is a very, very close second.
I moved to safari 3.0 on my windows XP from Firefox.
Using Safari3 on 15″ PB G4, consistently for the last two days. 1 crash. No memory leak, good performance. Helps a lot with all the ad crap on MDN which used to slow me down so much (though I accept it as a necessary evil)
Some small reversions to bugs with various webcams.
..and the IE Windows group are all trolls posting their usual high quality trash..!
Safari/Win is on my mini in Parallels. Seems to run fine – I ran into none of the problems cited by our Win bretheren. Odd, that…
Installed it on my g5 PM at home and my HP windows box at work. No problems or issues to resolve so far. It’s a metric s#$t ton faster than safari 2 or opera, and so far-knock on wood-it’s stable.
I’m running and updating adaware and spybot on my machines at work to see if Safari 3 picks up any windows malware. Sadly enough, I was even picking some up browsing on the latest version of opera.
BTW, the Redmond fanbois have really been picking S3 apart on the forums at Digg…
ZuneTang has secretly switched to Safari as well…….
@ digirati
“I tried Dan Eran’s Roughly Drafted site, and it was horribly hobbled in Safari 3. So, I returned to Firefox, where his site worked just fine.”
Oh, now that’s odd, because if you look at those tell-tale URLs and the source-code of the pages, you can see Dan builds it with iWeb.
One’s tempted to say: If Safari can’t render something written in iWeb right … however, I just went there in Safari for Windows to check, and it’s just fine for me. In fact it looks slightly better than on my Mac, since the screen is a slightly higher resolution on my Windows box.
I’m not sure why you’d be getting a problem while I’m not. I wonder if it’s down to plug-ins.
What I _did_ get when I launched Safari this time was a tiny tiny window. Safari on Windows seems to re-size itself occasionally for no reason that I can tell–often on launch.
On the whole I like it very much.
25% of visitors are on Windows, isn’t that interesting! How many do you thing are Mac users at work stuck on a PC, how many are potential switchers and how many are FUD spreaders?
Yeah, people testing out the new software, and people visiting an Apple-centric site.
Non-news.
Stefano, digirati,
I’m on a MBP and Safari 3 and RDM is perfectly rendered. Only difference is that it’s a bit quicker than 2.
Where do all these differences come from???
@digirati
You say RoughlyDrafted doesn’t show properly in Safari beta 3 on your MBP, but it works just fine in beta 3 (522.11) for me.
Do you have addons, plugins, haxies, etc. running?
Well I’m using Safari 3 at work (when I can) on a Dell. I’m hoping to use it to keep the companies website in shape. (We use Visual Studio…) So I’m very glad it came out.
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Seriously guys, this is a Mac focused website. Many mac users also own a PC, others with only a PC come here for news because they are either ipod/itunes fans and/or are thinking of making the switch. This is the LAST place we should look for real-world data on safari for windows usage. What I am saying is, many of the readers here are much more likely to try safari for windows. That makes sense right? I sure hope so.. let’s give it 3-6 months and wait for a report on usage that samples 1000’s of sites. Cool? Cool! Now, give me my 2 min back, thanks!