# Is Apple's Safari browser available for any other operating system?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apples-safari-browser-available-for-any-other-operating-system/342097 "2006-01-29T18:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apples-safari-browser-available-for-any-other-operating-system/342097/1 "2006-01-29T18:19:52Z")

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I have always wanted to try Safari browser, but run Windows XP.

Is it exclusive to OS X?

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apples-safari-browser-available-for-any-other-operating-system/342097/2 "2006-01-29T18:50:45Z")

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I am fairly certain it is exclusive and if a contrary example can be found, someone pulled some serious hacks to get it to work elsewhere.

I think you will have to buy a Mac or get really, really creative with porting and emulation.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apples-safari-browser-available-for-any-other-operating-system/342097/3 "2006-01-29T18:58:36Z")

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And I believe that even Macworld recommended that Mac people use Firefox.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apples-safari-browser-available-for-any-other-operating-system/342097/4 "2006-01-29T19:40:03Z")

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Safari’s rendering engine is built upon the open-source KHTML system from [Konqueror](http://www.konqueror.org/). I think there might be a Windows version of that somewhere.