One million Safari downloads in 2 days
More than 1 million copies of Apple Inc.'s Safari web browser for Windows were downloaded in its first two days of availability, the company said Thursday.
I've tried it out, and my reaction is mixed. It is demonstrably faster than Firefox and IE, it is much cleaner in look and feel than IE, but I've gotten used to my Firefox toolbars for Google, LinkedIn, and Skype, as well as plug-ins for weather, forms, and bookmark management. I would easily switch from IE to Safari if those were my only two choices, but I don't think the speed improvements in Safari justify abandoning FireFox.
I don't see how Apple competes with FireFox without opening up the code, the open source nature of FireFox allows anyone to create useful plug-ins to add additional functionality or improve the browser experience. I think FireFox demonstrated that extensible open source apps are preferably to closed applications, all else being equal.
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