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Apple Announces Safari 4

arepadetrigo said:
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My recommendation is to wait and watch this. That's what I plan to do.
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thank you for your recommendation. Enjoy waiting.

for the rest of us ... best browser yet ... :)

This version is very familiar for those with iphone. I appreciate the space saving with the new tabs approach. It feels natural to use this browser.
 
Windows Sucks!!

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!!:mad:
 
laughingperson5 said:
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!!:mad:
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If you were a Mac user you'd know that options are a privilege.
PS: caps lock? Seriously?
 
trip1ex said:
Not sure what to think of tabs at the top. Nice they want to use that space up, but first impression is it's ugly.

I think it will look better when or if the color is more uniform for the selected tab.
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Who gives a damn other than you how pretty the web browser is as long as it's functional, Good Grief. :rolleyes:
 
nanoboy said:
Yeah the Refresh button is gone. Now there's a Refresh symbol at the end of the address bar. When it is loading a page, pressing it (the symbol turned into a loading icon) served as stop, which is not at all clear to users!!!
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I am with you it is hard to find the Refresh and Stop buttons. They should just leave that back to where it was.:mad:
 
michaelruggeri said:
As soon as I downloaded safari 4 and went to my hotmail account, I found I could not open any of my e-mails. I went to Firefox and opened hotmail and that let me open my hotmail e-mails. But I still cannot open hotmail e-mails on safari. Anyone else having this problem? Please e-mail me if you have an answer.

Mike Ruggeri

I don't have an answer for it but mine is doing the same thing. I couldn't delete any emails, open them, or anything. I had to do it with Firefox. Thankfully I use gmail and hardly ever check my hotmail. It is frustrating to not be able to open them with Safari 4 though.
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Thanks for the heads-up

Phil A. said:
If you read through the posts on this thread, you'll find solutions to all of those issues (I'm running Safari 4 with the tabs where they were in Safari 3 and it's much better!)
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Hey thanks for the heads up. I hadn't read all the other posts. If I can fix these interface issues, I'm fine with the new version 4. I actually think it is faster, though I really didn't notice it a lot as some have stated.

One bonus, when I uninstalled the Beta version, it automatically re-installed my old version 3 and everything was EXACTLY as it was before! I like that!

I'll read through the other posts and see if I can use this new version with an interface that I am more accustomed to. Thanks.:)
 
Auto-click in Safari 4 destroys history trail

In Safari 3 when you clicked on an "auto-click" bookmark folder in the bookmarks menu the newly opened tabs would completely replace any open tabs you had in that window. This was fine since you could use the back button trail to get back to the pre-"auto-click"ed state. This ability to trace back to pre-"auto-click" is now gone. You cannot get back with "reopen last closed window" either. Your only option is to rebuild the window tab-for-tab from the history, which can be a real pain in the arse if one of the opened sites had not changed in some time (burying it deep in your history). I sent a bug report, but I don't know if each and every one of them gets read. If the deprecation of this feature (with no reasonable feature replacement) bothers you as well send a bug report. They surely can't ignore a sack full of bug reports making a not-so unreasonable feature request.
 
i.mac said:
thank you for your recommendation. Enjoy waiting.

for the rest of us ... best browser yet ... :)

This version is very familiar for those with iphone. I appreciate the space saving with the new tabs approach. It feels natural to use this browser.
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OK Fanboy. I'm good with that! ;)
 
I like the top sites feature and the way it redraws the page when you zoom in on the text. It makes most sites behave like The Guardian which has been that way for quite a few months now.

The cover flow feature is nice but definitely NSF!
 
  1. The Top Sites page is decent. Opera's version is easier to see content (fewer pages). You can't re-arrange the pages either (drag and drop). I think the blue star means the page has updated but some of the pages do not show the star even though they have updated. Can someone conform this is what it is supposed to be?
  2. I don't like the blue progress bar missing.
  3. The stop the page from loading/reload icon is missing (I know the minority of sites on the web that are up-to-date with the newest technologies don't need to be reloaded but the majority still do).
  4. Snap-back seems to have been removed. I liked using it on news sites.
  5. I am not feeling a speed bump.
  6. I like the cover-flow but I apparently have to load every page individually so I can see its likeness in cover flow. I don't think I have time for that in the next decade.
 
iParis said:
Anybody know how to get the tabs and blue loading bar back to normal on Windows Vista?
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SACD02 said:
I shall ask again,
HAS THE MEMORY LEAK ISSUE BEEN FIXED?
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So you don't know what a memory leak is do you? Most, if not all applications have some bit of code that causes a memory leak or two. There's more than one in Safari, more than one in Chrome, more than one in IE, more than one in FireFox, more than one in Shiira, More than one in Camino, more than one in Flock, more than one in iCab, more than one in OmniWeb, more than one in Opera, etc.
 
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