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It's not going to succeed; stick with Firefox.
It may very well be faster. Remember that this is a beta version. If it deletes everything on your hard drive, don't go complaining!
1) it's closed-source (yes, I know it uses WebKit). Firefox is free software, which should always be your preferred choice, where possible.
2) It hasn't got the great extensions that firefox has.
On the Mac the reason it's popular is because it gives a consistent Mac feel to the web, where Firefox doesn't (because it's not a Cocoa app on the Mac platform).
Why Windows users will use it, I don't know. The only real use for it, in my opinion, is as a testing suite for the iPhone.
If you're a developer interested in the iPhone platform, you'll be interested in knowing that Apple is opening the platform up by allowing any website to hook into some of the phone's core services, so that you can make an app with it just by making a regular dynamic website (think Google Docs...) (with emphasis on an iPhone look and feel).
iPhone uses exactly the same rendering engine as is present in Safari for Mac and (now) Windows. A good way to build and test an app for the iPhone before it's out, even if you don't own a Mac to use Safari with.
Apple also have some idea that when they port over an app, like Safari or Quicktime or iTunes, that it should keep the Mac look and feel. They do this because it introduces potential Mac buyers to the Mac interface feel, but it's quite wrong to do so because it stands out against the familiar Windows interface that the users will be accustomed to.
Honestly, apart from the iPhone usefulness, I don't know why else they're doing this.
It may very well be faster. Remember that this is a beta version. If it deletes everything on your hard drive, don't go complaining!
1) it's closed-source (yes, I know it uses WebKit). Firefox is free software, which should always be your preferred choice, where possible.
2) It hasn't got the great extensions that firefox has.
On the Mac the reason it's popular is because it gives a consistent Mac feel to the web, where Firefox doesn't (because it's not a Cocoa app on the Mac platform).
Why Windows users will use it, I don't know. The only real use for it, in my opinion, is as a testing suite for the iPhone.
If you're a developer interested in the iPhone platform, you'll be interested in knowing that Apple is opening the platform up by allowing any website to hook into some of the phone's core services, so that you can make an app with it just by making a regular dynamic website (think Google Docs...) (with emphasis on an iPhone look and feel).
iPhone uses exactly the same rendering engine as is present in Safari for Mac and (now) Windows. A good way to build and test an app for the iPhone before it's out, even if you don't own a Mac to use Safari with.
Apple also have some idea that when they port over an app, like Safari or Quicktime or iTunes, that it should keep the Mac look and feel. They do this because it introduces potential Mac buyers to the Mac interface feel, but it's quite wrong to do so because it stands out against the familiar Windows interface that the users will be accustomed to.
Honestly, apart from the iPhone usefulness, I don't know why else they're doing this.
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