Paypal is not for Safari

"Drop Safari if you want to avoid online fraud." This somehow sums up a statement issued by Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer.

The default browser on Apple's Macintosh computers doesn't figure in PayPal's list of recommended browsers because it doesn't have important anti-phishing security features. Now that Apple seems bent on reaching a wider base of users (Safari is being introduced to the Windows platform), the Paypal warning is indeed timely.

Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users when they are visiting suspicious websites. It also lacks support for an anti-phishing technology, called Extended Validation (EV) certificates. Extended Validation is an Internet technology turns the address bar green when the browser is visiting a legitimate Web site. EV certificates are already supported in Internet Explorer 7, and they have been used on the PayPal website for over a year now.

Barrett says: "Opera, IE, and Firefox are safer, precisely because we think they are safer for the average consumer." "I'd love to say that Safari was a safer browser, but at this point it isn't."