Spontaneous Monotony

I posted the other day about the surprisingly poor quality of the new version of Safari. People elsewhere assumed that the widespread reports of problems were simply minor bugs, or people who didn’t know how to install it properly, and other such defences usually reserved for the few Microsoft fanboys out there.

Now it’s official. Wired has done a benchmark of various tasks (such things as loading the Gmail inbox page) and Safari came dead last. Yep, worse than IE. Not only that, their review uncovered the sort of crashes and stalls that Apple-zealots have been trying to pretend don’t exist. It’s just lucky for Apple that they weren’t planning to make any money out of Safari for Windows – it’s turning out to be their worst product release since the puck mouse.

EDIT: It’s full of security flaws too! The reputation of Apple’s software division is going up in smoke by the hour.