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Apple Announces Release of Safari 5 with Extensions - But Where Is It?

macswitcha2 said:
I'm thinking of ditching firefox for a while and staying with Safari...how do I migrate my book marks to safari?
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Hi, I 've just done this myself...

1. Open Firefox > BookMarks Menu > Organise Bookmarks.
2. Pick "Import / Backup" > Export HTML - save the file somewhere e.g. Desktop.
3. Close Firefox and open safari.
4. File Menu > Import Bookmarks - pick the file you saved above.

Voila!

-Keeval-
 
I have had no problems so far with the new version of Safari.

I personally won't be installing extensions yet until I am sure that they are not going to infect my mac with adverts or malware or other garbage like PC's get with their extensions to Internet Explorer.

Apple has still not added a filter to get rid of pop-unders, these are very annoying. I am sure that we will find faults with this new version.
 
Keeval said:
Hi, I 've just done this myself...

1. Open Firefox > BookMarks Menu > Organise Bookmarks.
2. Pick "Import / Backup" > Export HTML - save the file somewhere e.g. Desktop.
3. Close Firefox and open safari.
4. File Menu > Import Bookmarks - pick the file you saved above.

Voila!

-Keeval-
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I would also recommend Xmarks. Not only will it port them over, but it will keep your bookmarks in sync between any browser on any computer you'd like.
 
simie said:
I have had no problems so far with the new version of Safari.

I personally won't be installing extensions yet until I am sure that they are not going to infect my mac with adverts or malware or other garbage like PC's get with their extensions to Internet Explorer.
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You don't have to worry, extensions have to be digitally signed and receive a certificate from Apple.

BTW, does anyone have this problem with youtube? It happens intermittently. It's not a Safari 5 problem, it has happened before but I was hoping it would get fixed. I do have Glims and Click2Flash installed.
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Hmm. Haven't seen that problem. Then again, I've had my Youtube switched to HTML5 for a while now. Ever since they offered it, actually.
 
foiden said:
Hmm. Haven't seen that problem. Then again, I've had my Youtube switched to HTML5 for a while now. Ever since they offered it, actually.
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Yeah, I tried that and it made Youtube even buggier. The right list of related videos would get moved to the other side and overlap with the main video.

I'll try it again now w/ Safari 5 though.
 
Apologies if anyone posted but Netflix is working. :) The benefits of working on call all day and overnight yesterday, you miss these things!

Pretty impressed and forgot how much I'd liked the blue bar. I'd been using Chrome almost exclusively the last few months on my Macbook, but Safari seems to be back on par and I could switch back.
 
Why does Safari need so much RAM?

I switched to Chrome a few months ago because Safari was consuming so much RAM as to make it unusable.

I have 4GB of RAM on my late 2009 MBP. Why is it that a browser ran just fine on a system with 256MB of RAM just a few years ago yet today, Safari ties up 1GB of RAM plus 1GB of virtual memory? What has changed? What -- if anything -- can I turn off to make Safari be just a browser without all the bells and whistles that makes it such a memory hog?
 
ipedro said:
I switched to Chrome a few months ago because Safari was consuming so much RAM as to make it unusable.

I have 4GB of RAM on my late 2009 MBP. Why is it that a browser ran just fine on a system with 256MB of RAM just a few years ago yet today, Safari ties up 1GB of RAM plus 1GB of virtual memory? What has changed? What -- if anything -- can I turn off to make Safari be just a browser without all the bells and whistles that makes it such a memory hog?
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Do you remember what the web was like when your browser ran on 256MB? It was hardly as content rich as it is now.
 
Excellent point... but that doesn't explain why Opera and most of the times, Chrome run perfectly fine where Apple's browser, on its own OS, on its own latest generation high end computer runs with a beachball most of the time if it's not the only app running.
 
ipedro said:
Excellent point... but that doesn't explain why Opera and most of the times, Chrome run perfectly fine where Apple's browser, on its own OS, on its own latest generation high end computer runs with a beachball most of the time if it's not the only app running.
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No, but I haven't run into that problem and I'm on the previous generation Macbook Pro.
 
Anyone have any info on how to change the 'reader' feature direction that it pops-up. I would rather have come in from a different direction rather than the bottom of the screen.
 
Cougarcat said:
You don't have to worry, extensions have to be digitally signed and receive a certificate from Apple.
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I believe this will be the case for the extensions officially hosted on Apple's web site, but there is nothing stopping anyone from DL extensions from elsewhere and installing with no certification. There are already many extensions available. I guess you just have to be careful where you get your extensions.
 
I HATE HATE HATE the new 'search in the URL bar' feature. :mad:

Anyone know if there is any way to disable it?
 
I installed Safari 5 yesterday and every 2 or 3 webpages, it just hangs up. When it does this, it takes minutes to load the page, if at all. I can't surf the internet like this. Does anyone know how I can get Safari 4 back?

Thanks,
Bryan
 
Bryan Bowler said:
I installed Safari 5 yesterday and every 2 or 3 webpages, it just hangs up. When it does this, it takes minutes to load the page, if at all. I can't surf the internet like this. Does anyone know how I can get Safari 4 back?

Thanks,
Bryan
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Read back in this thread about 20 posts.
 
Um, ever since I upgraded to Safari 5, Glims won't re-open tabs from my last session upon quitting Safari.

Anyone else experiencing this problem?
 
simie said:
I have had no problems so far with the new version of Safari.

I personally won't be installing extensions yet until I am sure that they are not going to infect my mac with adverts or malware or other garbage like PC's get with their extensions to Internet Explorer.

Apple has still not added a filter to get rid of pop-unders, these are very annoying. I am sure that we will find faults with this new version.
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They can't because they work in a restricted (in the good way) environment and written only using. HTML, CSS and JavaScript
 
GGJstudios said:
I don't have that on mine.
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Then you aren't using Safari 5, or you don't understand what I'm referring to. Let me try to expound.

The URL bar should ONLY autocomplete URLs. It should not search through everything in my history and bookmarks that contain the string I started typing. It is extremely annoying and must be disabled. Furthermore, Apple should know better than this.
 
pooryou said:
Then you aren't using Safari 5, or you don't understand what I'm referring to. Let me try to expound.

The URL bar should ONLY autocomplete URLs. It should not search through everything in my history and bookmarks that contain the string I started typing. It is extremely annoying and must be disabled. Furthermore, Apple should know better than this.
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I agree...there's got to be a terminal command at least to stop this.
 
pooryou said:
Then you aren't using Safari 5, or you don't understand what I'm referring to. Let me try to expound.

The URL bar should ONLY autocomplete URLs. It should not search through everything in my history and bookmarks that contain the string I started typing. It is extremely annoying and must be disabled. Furthermore, Apple should know better than this.
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The URL bar acts more intuitive and consistent with what the search bar does now. You can think of the drop down list in the URL bar as the suggestions when you are doing a google search. I don't seem to understand why some people think it is a bad idea. To each their own I guess.
 
Compile 'em all said:
The URL bar acts more intuitive and consistent with what the search bar does now. You can think of the drop down list in the URL bar as the suggestions when you are doing a google search. I don't seem to understand why some people think it is a bad idea. To each their own I guess.
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I understand what it is doing, thanks, but those things should not be consistent because they are different.

I guess it's intended for people who don't know the actual URLs of the sites they are navigating to, and for them it might help, but for people who know what they want to type it makes the process excruciating at times.

If there were a way to turn it off in the preferences I would have less of a problem with it. It is not helpful at all and is bad user interface design in implementation, unlike the Google suggestions.
 
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