Safari 3.1 on Windows

Apple released Safari 3.1 for Windows recently. I had to try it out, one I didn't like off the bat was that it was shoved down my throat as soon as I opened "Apple Update", if I wasn't familiar with computers I would have no idea what "Safari" is. I had Safari 3 on my laptop for awhile but I rarely used it. My old gripes where that it took an excruciatingly long time to open, pages did not render correctly, it tended to be un-stable, and there was a lack of extensions. Pages just didn't seem to load as fast as they did on my Mac. I am happy to say that 3.1 fixed all my gripes (mostly). It loads much faster and it renders web pages much more efficiently. I did however experience more crashes with Safari than I do Firefox. I really do like the interface, it will take some time to get accustomed to though. The text is bold and darker than Firefox do to the clear type differences, this is just something I got used to and enjoy enormously now. One thing that strikes me as odd, when Safari gets bogged down, say switching between tabs will a download is starting it defaults the window control and header line to these weird archaic styled buttons and window frame. I recommend you go try it out, it does take some time to get used to, I have been using it for a week before I wrote this review. This is an exciting time with IE 8 coming out as well as Firefox 3, Safari will have some great competition.