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As part of the WWDC conference yesterday Steve Jobs announced that Apple’s web browser, Safari, would be made available to Windows users. There is currently a beta posted that is accessible to Mac and Windows users alike. I think there could be a lot of users that might try Safari, but should you?

The initial answer seems to be a resounding “NO!”. I’ve heard from Mac fanatics that they don’t use Safari because it tends to crash and doesn’t have plugins. Wired has a blog post on a similar theme on their “Cult of Mac” blog. However, for those that have similar issues with Firefox, why not try it?

Well, there appears to be some serious security holes with the beta release. Now, this is a beta so we can cut Apple some slack, but it looks like it took all of 3 hours for people to find serious security holes with Safari. Serious as in hijacking your whole computer serious. Ryan Naraine over at ZDNET has been tracking the bugs as they come out.

So, for now I would not download the new beta of Safari and wait for the final product before wanting to take a test drive. While we have been spoiled with betas from Firefox that are basically functional (and from Google that are entire products), we do need to remember that betas can, and often do, have serious bugs in them and Safari is no exception. Keep with Firefox until at least the security concerns are taken out of the product.