Today Apple released the public beta 3 Safari browser for Windows. I downloaded and installed it on my Windows Vista and browser seemed to work fine without any problems. Most of the websites rendered without any issues. Even though I didn’t like the way the browser adjusts the data to fit to screen as it makes it uneasy to view when it moves the contents over the page for the proper layout (I noticed this even with Firefox at times, but only IE does it clean)
Only thing that I noticed is, Yahoo! beta mail gave a warning that the browser is not supported and upon continuing I was able to view the messaged. But when I tried to reply a mail; the compose editor becomes blank. So, looks like some work pending from mail team.
Another good thing is it gives an option to change the default search engine to either Google search or Yahoo! search. There is no stunning feature in Safari which can take the users away from IE as IE 7 also has all most all the features that Safari provides. Only people who hates Windows/IE has another source other than Firefox now. May be it will take some share away from Firefox on Windows.
As it only released now; only few default plugins are provided by Apple for time being. And there is no customization for browser in terms of placing the icons or changing the theme yet. Not sure apple will ever support that. Atleast Apple should change the page title bar font and its background.
I also noticed that the safari crashed 3 to 4 times when I hit the back button on my website as well from Apple website. Also; the back button seemed to take longer time than IE.
Today on one my home desktop, I deleted the Linux partition under Windows Vista using ‘Disk Management’ where the Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty was installed as a dual boot option as I was running out of space. But when I tried to reboot the system, the system is no longer booting due to corrupted MBR.
So, I have to manually repair the boot loader using Vista setup DVD disk. In the recovery options, when I selected, “Startup repair - Automatically fix problems which are preventing windows from starting”, that did not help. So, I selected Command Prompt option and then ran “BootRec /FixMBR followed by BootRec /FixBoot” and that did rebuild the boot loader.
For some reason since few months; I never been successful in establishing a remote connection to Windows Vista Ultimate using ‘Remote Desktop’. Whenever I try to connect, it actually connets to Vista by logging in; but once I press any key afterwards; the connection closes with a error message “the remote session was disconnected due to another user has connected to the session”. And nobody else is connected to the system other than me as am sitting infront of that system.
But I never had this issue with Windows XP as I always used to take over the session either remotely or connected to the console on that system.
I downloaded and installed the new ‘Remote desktop client‘ on my XP; and still no luck with similar error.
After a while; I thought I will create a new dummy user in my Vista, so that I can use that user instead of the user who uses over the console. So, I created a new user and used that user to connect from remote desktop client; and this time it worked out well, even though I might be using a different user and profile; but it forced to connect by disconnecting the console user…something that works for time being. Need to see how to force the same user to connect as I did in case of XP
Marklon had a post on MSDN blog that has good tips on considerations to be taken care when one wants to write a performance driven applications. Very nice points from Mark and must read for any developer.
The more polished, graphics ready highly anticipated operating system, Microsoft Vista aka code name Longhorn BETA2 is expected in November. It won’t speed up introduction of this system but it at least means that we are one step closer to the Q4 2006 introduction.
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Brian Madden has collected the new features of Terminal Server in Longhorn from various sources.
For the complete list of features, check the article Brian Madden article.
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