Run Safari 4 on Linux with Wine

[guriman]

The latest eye-candy beta of Safari was released earlier this week for Windows and Mac, but Linux users can now (mostly) use Safari 4 using the Wine compatibility tool.

The flapjacktastic weblog runs through the process of installing Safari on Linux, which requires setting up Wine with some extra tweaks, copying a file from a Windows machine, and fixing some font problems—ending up with a (mostly) functional Safari installation. There are still some unsolved issues with the tabs not working, and the process is not beginner-friendly, but it’s a great proof of concept—and could be very useful for testing web pages from a Linux machine.

Source (http://www.answers4pc.com/281)

Safari 4 on linux with WINE: solved (http://alicious.com/2009/safari-4-on-linux-with-wine-update/)

[speedwell68]

Why on earth would you want to? It is a mediocre browser at best.

[Riboflavin]

Why on earth would you want to? It is a mediocre browser at best.Safari 4 is infinitely better than the older versions. You should try it out if you haven't yet.

[Regenweald]

Safari always annoys me to no end. Cool that safari fans can run it in wine though. The WINE project is getting pretty amazing, I mean, I can run utorrent and it sits in my ubuntu system tray and runs seamlessly :)

[Skripka]

Safari 4 is infinitely better than the older versions. You should try it out if you haven't yet.

I never even run Safari when I use Apple machines.

[AnimeOmega]

I'm not fan of apple or safari, but it's "the best browser"* in quite a few tests.

*Source:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/browserStatistics.action

It would be rather interesting if someone were to benchmark:
*Safari 4 (Wine)
*Firefox (Wine)
*Firefox (Native Linux Build)
*Some native Linux browser that uses Webkit (Midori and Arora come to mind)

Benchmark Link:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action

[bashveank]

Why on earth would you want to? It is a mediocre browser at best.

Bahahahah. On the Mac its insanely fast, stable, and its the only browser on the mac without a jacked up up. On Windows, its okay, but its analog is Chrome.

[Jugney]

As a web developer, I need to test out sites on Safari because it's a fairly safe bet that the majority of Mac users are surfing on Safari.

[L815]

All the hype over a browser. If anything webkit, go chrome. Even if it's not at the level of safari, it will reach there very soon. Plus, extensions are popping out fairly fast.


PS: I'm not affiliated with google ;p. I recommend Chromium instead :D

[Crunchy the Headcrab]

What is this Safari you speak of? I might have to give it a try. I use Firefox exclusively. Can't stand IE. Can't stand Opera. Love Firefox. Haven't used Safari really. Don't want to use Chrome.

I use a Mac frequently and have never been bothered to try safari :lolflag:

[Xbehave]

As a web developer, I need to test out sites on Safari because it's a fairly safe bet that the majority of Mac users are surfing on Safari.
Only if you do some nasty things with javascript otherwise it renders pages the same a chrome.

[murderslastcrow]

How did you download Firefox, then!? XD

Yeah, this is great for showcasing how far Wine is coming. I bet they'll have iTunes soon, too, and since the iPhone and iPod Touch stuff is being tested and mostly works, we'll have support for them built into our distros soon, as well. So we can install iTunes just to show Apple that we're not using it.

This will be good for my tests, but I would guess that most webkit/KHTML-based browsers will render similarly, so it's largely unnecessary. Nevertheless, if it gets stable then it'll be nice for Apple fans wanting a free Unix with their web browser in it.

[Frak]

As a web developer, I need to test out sites on Safari because it's a fairly safe bet that the majority of Mac users are surfing on Safari.
As a web developer, I'll tell you that Safari and Chrome render pages the same way. Chrome even has better Javascript support than Safari. The worst that will happen is that you'll have a false sense of how fast your Javascript *really* is.

[Jr.Muffin]

I've never been a big fan of Safari. I've used many browsers in my day, but my current favourite is Midori (http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html).