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  2. Apr 25, 2022 · Apple discontinued the Windows version of Safari many years ago, but bringing it back now could provide one of the best alternatives to browsers built with Google's Chromium engine.

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    Even at its best, and despite Apple's insistence to the contrary, Safari for Windows wasn't clearly better than other Windows browsers available at the time, and it also fell short of its OS X counterpart in terms of performance. I'll also admit that, while all of my PCs at the time had a copy of Safari for Windows installed, it was never configure...

    The last version of Safari for Windows was 5.1.7, released May 9, 2012. Apple no longer distributes it officially, but the installer can be easily found onlineat various sites that catalog software. Although it was released two versions of Windows ago, and sports a design that would be unfamiliar to those who use Safari on the Mac today, I set out ...

    The first thing I needed to test was if Safari for Windows would even work at all on my Windows 10 PC. With advertised compatibility for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, I wasn't so sure. Thankfully, Safari installed just fine, and I had no problems getting it running in Windows 10. The next step, of course, is to see how it performs. The ...

    I tested Safari for Windows 5.1.7 against the latest public versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. First up is the SunSpiderJavaScript test. The SunSpider test has now been replaced by the more advanced JetStream test, but Safari for Windows was too old to run JetStream, so we stuck with Sunspider. The results, reported in milliseconds, show...

    Obviously the benchmarks in the previous section were primarily for fun; there was no reasonable expectation that a 3-plus-year-old browser could stand up to modern counterparts. But the benchmarks serve as an interesting point of reference for how far browser technology and performance has come in a relatively short time. Turning back to the true ...

    But the truth is that while Safari for Windows is arguably passable when it comes to features, its technical limitations mean that it could never realistically survive today as a vialable alternative for a modern user on the latest operating systems. And that's without even mentioning security concerns, with Safari 5.1.7 going without the myriad of...

  3. Sep 6, 2021 · Apple stopped making Safari for Windows in 2012. As fellow users, none of us can comment on Apple's own internal decision to stop Safari for Windows development, or why they have not produced something current for Windows 10.

  4. Oct 14, 2024 · Apple no longer offers Safari updates for Windows or other non-Apple operating systems. Safari 5.1.7 for Windows was the last version made for Windows. It was released in 2010 and is now outdated.

  5. Oct 4, 2023 · Since Apple stopped providing support for the browser on Windows, the latest version available is v5.1.7. While there are no official means to update Safari for Windows 10 & 11, there are still ways to do it.

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  6. Safari for Windows launched in 2007, a few months after the iPhone. It's purpose was: for devs to test their mobile web apps, test rendering for Mac users, maybe convince some PC users to switch. PC users overwhelmingly hated it or were indifferent, they weren't swaying anyone with this thing.

  7. Mar 8, 2024 · Here is how to do just that. Step 1: Click here to download Safari 5.1.7 setup file from Apple. The setup supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 11/10/8/7 systems. Step 2: Run the installer and then follow the on-screen directions to get it installed.

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