Apple released the first beta of the Safari web browser for Windows today. Naturally, loving new tech toys, and having heard good things about Safari, I downloaded and installed the beta. Well, I have no regrets, but sadly I’ve not been able to get anywhere except for Apple homepage.
On my Windows XP SP2 box, Safari starts up looking like iTunes big brother in general appearance. But unfortunately for me, all of the menu text is missing. Not only that, I could not enter text in the address box either. After a few minutes of bumping about in the dark, so to speak, Safari locks up and I have to shut it down. So no Safari love here.
I know betas are test versions, so I’m not surprised by bugs, but I would have expected something more esoteric than the menus not showing up. That seems like something too basic to miss, especially since iTunes works well on my machine. I’m sure the problem will be fixed soon enough.