I was eager to try out Apple's Safari on my PC primarily cause I can't stand IE; Firefox has a really beautiful memory leak; and Safari is touted as being 50% faster than those other browsers. I couldn't wait...
Note that it's still in BETA...
My first impression, it made my browsing experience feel like a browsing on a mac. Except for he fact that none of the common shortcut keys worked. Alt + < or > combo for back/forward did not register; the back and forward buttons on my mouse, just made a sad clicking sound; and the space and Shift + Space to go up/down, didn't work. All minor issues, unless you prefer keyboard shortcuts as opposed to using a mouse.
The speed, definitely a noticeable difference.. 50% faster? Possibly.
Then i went to GMail. That's when it wasn't 50% faster anymore. It felt as if everyone was using GMail at the same time. Massive lag. I authored and sent a message. Only half of it went though. Apparently, the text box cut the message in half. must have interpreted some special character in a weird way. Then, the application seemed to haver gotten into some sort of AJAX loop that caused GMail to lock out my account for suspicious activity. Grrr... I was back in a few hours, but I wasn't happy. Makes me wonder if this was released a tad too early. But to be fair, I'm not sure if this is an issue with GMail not supporting Safari on PC or Safari on PC not supporting GMail.
Some speculation... it's understandable that Apple wants to release Safari on PC now, especially after making the statement "want to build applications on the iPhone? Just write them to work on Safari". I think this made Safari an integral key for iPhone developers on a PC.
So I'm now back to Firefox with closing and restarting every few hours until the next release...