I've been giving Apple's new web browser Safari a shot today, and it seems fine. When it's out of beta it will probably be quite a nice browser - certainly better than Netscape or Mozilla. The weblog world has decended upon it to take it apart - there's an extensive bug/omission list being compiled here - and some people are complaining about features that exist in other minority broswers, like tabbed browsing, not being in Safari. But real world users will probably find it OK - faster than Explorer, maybe even a little speedier than Opera, but one or two minor features short of both.
Browsers are like a good pair of shoes: you spend so much time in them, you want it to be comfortable. And that's maybe the reason the Blogosphere has so quickly tested and reported back on it. But rapid fire analysis has its drawbacks: some of the critiques seem either a bit obscure, plain wrong or just confusing. For instance, Doc Searls says it lacks cookie managment, but I found some under Explorer|Preferences|Security, so I'm not quite sure what he means. Any thoughts?
