Robert McMillan:

Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.

Common sense is the best protection from phishing scams, but it would be nice for Safari to let me know if the site I’m looking at is a known phishing site. In fact, an early version of Safari 3 that was included in pre-release builds of Leopard did exactly that. I have no idea why Apple removed this from the final version of Safari 3, but I suspect it will return soon.