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Apple Announces Safari 4
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It's been mentioned several times in this thread... just look for my previous posts.
http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html
Is it just me or is Safari4 "not" faster than the one i just updated from?
I dont like the interface. But it might just be that it takes a little getting used to.
Oh well, we have to live with it now or just never upgrade. They should at least let us adjust the appearance.
I dont like the interface. But it might just be that it takes a little getting used to.
Oh well, we have to live with it now or just never upgrade. They should at least let us adjust the appearance.
BLECHH!!!
I HATE THIS
I WANT THE USER INTERFACE TO LOOK LIKE I'M USING A MAC
BUT IT LOOKS LIKE FUGLY INTERNET EXPLORER
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN PUT FEEDBACK??!!?
CUZ I WANT APPLE TO PUT IN THE PREFERENCES TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THE SAFARI 3 INTERFACE
RAGING MAD!!
I don't even like the MAC interface changes either.
1 Step forward in speed, 3 steps backwards otherwise.
With Snapback (and its keystroke command) gone and the blue progress bar gone, this looks less Mac like or innovative to me and somewhat generic, and I've already filed my first crash report, but I guess that's to be expected since it's a beta.
But there's just no excuse for TAKING away novel features that made Safari stand out!
I'm not sure there is a memory leak. Maybe it just uses memory as it needs it and doesn't let go of the memory until another program requests it.
It's a combination of things. Cache usage miscalculations, heap fragmentation, leaks, etc...
It's much improved in Safari 4.
Yeah I tried that. It didn't work.
I don't think my Top Sites are working. The last space of "Top Sites" is empty. Plus, when I click Small, there are only the five top sites you see in the attachment remaining.
Here's what I have:
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I don't even like the MAC interface changes either.
1 Step forward in speed, 3 steps backwards otherwise.
With Snapback (and its keystroke command) gone and the blue progress bar gone, this looks less Mac like or innovative to me and somewhat generic, and I've already filed my first crash report, but I guess that's to be expected since it's a beta.
But there's just no excuse for TAKING away novel features that made Safari stand out!
Snapback is still on the Safari 4 features page, and it works for me on the Google bar... just not the address bar.
Hmm i smell fish... try re-installing it. I can't thin of a reason it would be doing that.
Ok this is not really a solution but the inquisitor plug-in shows up for a second when you input text on the "top sites" search thingy. if you type, say "ipod touch" and press your key-shortcut for amazon, it still works. 1/4 of a solution I guess.
Nope, not true, there's no way to add the standard Stop/Reload button back into the toolbar a la Safari 3 and I already find myself clicking accidently on the RSS button because the reload/stop location is in a poor place and far too small. If I switch my display to 1600x1200, I'd need a seeing EYE dog to find the sucker without hitting RSS! LOL
With the removal of Snapback & the blue progress bar, overall, its just bad interface decisions all around this puppy.
I hope they change lots. I'm probably uninstalling it too now that I've crashed it a few times as well.
Might have been, but the difference now is 3-fold. Tabs are at the top, tabs are larger and the shade of grey isn't uniform from tab to bottom/sides of bookmark bar.
The shade of grey should at least be uniform within the same page (everything, but the de-selected tabs.) It's not. But I believe it was before. And really it should be more consistent with the OS/X scheme of making the background windows a lighter shade of grey and the foreground window a darker shade.
PLEASE try reading before you flame ... lol
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=7163758#post7163758
Looky here!! What the heck?! how is that possible??!?
From the features it sounds like Safari 4 will be a CPU and hard drive hog.
Safari takes up 13 megs according to my apps folder on my 12 inch G4, and I can tell a difference, Safari is MUCH faster then before.
Snapback is now on the search field, so its there just moved around.
I wonder if they mean the little spinning cycle is there new "progress bar" they refer to here:
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#interface
I prefer the normal progress bar.
I wonder if they mean the little spinning cycle is there new "progress bar" they refer to here:
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#interface
I prefer the normal progress bar.
Bump. I also cannot get links to open in a new tab in a current window. What setting am I not properly changing or enabling?
I want to be able to SNAPBACK to websites I go to NOT just ones I search for.
Previously, Snapback was in booth places, a great idea.
You can tell when a website is failing to load rather than sitting there dumbfounded staring at a spinning wheel.
Also, I travel alot, with iffy WIFI connections, the blue progress bar tells me when things are dying and its time to move an antenna or something. Very useful.
And better than sitting there staring dumbfounded at a useless spinning wheel that just tells you, nope, you're not there yet! LOL
I will however, investigate the terminal hack, but I fear that will make it more unstable than already, but thanks for the tip.
FACE PALM for the most of this post
1. EDIT button at the bottom left
2. You can change it back by editing prefereces, im sure its somewhere in this thread.
3. The reload icon is in the ADDRESS BAR, hit it while its spinning the page stops loading.
4. Agreed
5. Really? did you feel it when you changed from firefox 2 to firefox 3. Not really either. There isnt that large of a change, milliseconds.
6. When you first go to the bookmarks it asks you if you want it to auto load all the thumbnails for coverflow, so you dont have to take the next decade to get the thumbnails.
Nope, this isn't working for me either, it downloads a file without extension to my folder. Open in a new window seems fine.
I forgot about that, It used to work for both. Yes the blue progress bar is better since you can check if your page got stuck halfway or didn't load at all. You can get it back by doing:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NOBut you get the non-tone matching spinners on the tabs.
Nope, works fine for me.
What I do wish they'd finally incorporate is an option to ALWAYS open links in a new tab in the same window. I hate having a new window open when I was just opening a link to view later.