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This is very straight forward, but for those who think it might be complicated. Here is all it entails.
- you should see a screen like this pop up and shortly after Safari should be running with the new webkit engine.
I think you might require Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to make this work …
It doesn’t seem to make sense for that to be the case, but do post a comment if you get this to run without having Visual Studio installed.
March 17th, 2008
I am a huge fan of Safari and Webkit … what it lacks in cool features, it more than makes up for in blazing fast speed and javascript performance.
When the Microsoft released a beta for IE8, I was prompted to run the Acid3 test on the browsers I had on my system.
Here are the results I got on my windows box, testing all the installed browsers against Acid 3
[I got the Safari seed off the Apple Developer Connection]
Safari (seed 31A15) ……………………………… 76
Opera 9.50 build 9613 ………………………… 65
Opera 9.50 build 9815 ………………………… 60
Firefox 3 beta 3 ………………………………….. 47
IE 7 …………………………………………………….. 12
I posted this on an Apple Discussion board and was told by a member to test the latest nightly (30881) … which I did.
The result?
March 7th, 2008
On windows xp on bootcamp, the delete key actually does what the backspace key should do.
To get it to act like it should, just hit hold down [fn] then delete to your heart’s desire.
February 6th, 2008
Safari for Windows (3.0.4) became my current favorite browser by (to my trained eye) slaughtering Opera in Javascript performance.
Hopefully that changes with Opera 9.25. Of late though, I’ve been having trouble with it. Safari initially broke on my Windows Laptop a few weeks ago, popping up a debugger prompt and closing immediately if I cancelled out of it.It kept running on my main workstation, however … that is until this evening, now its doing the same on my desktop.
I realize how poorly supported this browser is, because there is no place to file a bug report except from in the browser itself. Shouldn’t there be an active bug database or something for Safari on windows?
If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know … I want my super fast javascript back!
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December 19th, 2007
So … I’m running Windows XP on a 17″ Macbook Pro with Bootcamp …
Every now and then, when I put the laptop on Standby and try to resume work from where I left off, the USB devices stop responding all together.
This is a big problem for me, since
- I put my laptop in and out of standby several times a day
- work off an external 250GB Hard drive.
- am pretty hopeless without a wireless mouse
I poked around online, but didn’t really find anything on Google or at the Apple bootcamp forum.
So I decided to try fixing it on my own.
What I found curious about the problem, was that everytime the usb devices stopped working, I’d get this message in the Event Viewer.
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the AppleOSSMgr service.
So I simply restarted the “Apple OS Switch Manager” service and after allowing it to complete … it would fail, but my usb devices would be operational again.
Here’s how to accomplish it, and I hope this helps someone out.
From the command line
- Hit the Apple btn + R … the run prompt should come up
- type in “
cmd“
- type in [
net stop "Apple OS Switch manager"] (note the quotes)
- wait for that to complete
- then type in [
net stop "Apple OS Switch manager"]
Visually
- Hit the Apple btn + R … the run prompt should come up
- type in “
services.msc“
- scroll down until you find “
Apple OS Switch Manager” (sort the columns by name to help you find it a bit more easily)
- Right Click on it and select “
Restart“
- wait a while … it will take a bit of time to complete and it should actually fail, but after its done you should be able to use your usb device again.
December 7th, 2007
