Apple’s Safari is a free web browser which is available over various platforms. At first, Safari was only dedicated to iOS or Mac, but now, with greater demand of Safari flowing in, Apple has made it available to other platforms as well.
Safari is most well known for its high speed, reliability, security and extremely simplistic user interface. But with a choice of many other free web browsers in the market such is Firefox, Chrome, etc. why would you choose Safari as your default browser?
In this article we shall discuss the various Pros and Cons of using Safari for Windows and whether you should download it or not.
Pros of using Safari for Windows
- It is a free web browser, which means you do not have to pay anything to download Safari for any platform or operating system.
- It is the fastest web browsing platform available in the market, delivering speeds of 2x over other web browsers.
- Safari supports CSS3 and HTML5.
- Top Sites for Windows, which allows users to view thumbnails of their most visited websites on the top of their browser screen.
- Cover Flow option which allows users to browse through complete spread sheet versions of the sites as they last visited them. This is extremely handy if uses want to pick up from a site where they left off the last time.
- The new feature of Search History in Safari allows users to type a single word to find every single page they have searched which contains that one word. This can be helpful in times when users can not recall the name of the website they last visited and need to go back to search for that particular web page.
- Reader facility allows users to view the entire contents of a site on one single page.
- Tabs on Top feature allows users to browse through their open tabs at the top of the Safari browser. They can even drag and move tabs along the safari page for their convenience.
- Safari for windows is extremely stable and user friendly, having probably one of the most simplistic user interfaces which allows even first time users to access Safari without any issues,.
- Additional safety, security and privacy features allows users to keep their web page history completely hidden from outside prying eyes with just the touch of a button.
- Safari is extremely stylish and elegant as well as convenient.
Cons of using Safari for Windows
- Not all Safari features are available on Windows.
- Safari lacks customization options that are available on many of the other competitor platforms.
- Safari does not provide a lot of updates, and still has a few bugs and fixes which are to be solved.
- Flash does not work well with safari.
- Safari is vulnerable to malware.
- Certain security issues for Windows users of Safari which Mac users of Safari do not face.
After discussing the pros and cons of Safari browser for Windows, it can safely be said that Safari is one of the best browser choices you can have for your convenience.