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Apple Announces Safari 4

WilliamG said:
Anyone else experiencing the currency widget totally messed up since Safari 4 install? Any way to fix this? Not a fan of the fact that 1 GBP = 0.425 USD!
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Lol, mine is messed up too - looks like some of the currency values are now pointing to different things. Not sure if it's related to Safari or not though.

My NZ dollar is suddenly worth over 30 times more US dollars than it was.

edit: I think I found the problem. The second currency field is listed from US -> Venuzualian (alphabetical order with US first), while the first field is strictly alphabetical. It seems as the values have all shifted by one slot.
 
Hotmail temporary fix

raf66 said:
Still lovin' the new beta. The only problems I've countered are with my online banking and hotmail. Haven't tried some of the other sites that some have mentioned are crashing (CNN video-I avoid that like the plague anyway:rolleyes:, ebay, etc.).

I like the layout and I LOVE its speed.
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I found in another forum what I call a temporary fix for Hotmail. Go to Safari/Preferences/Advanced and check "Show Develop menu." Then click on the signin to Hotmail. Once in click the Develop menu and choose "User agent." I tried Firefox as some suggested but it didn't work, so finally chose the top one "Default automatically," then clicked on New and when the new mail opened, just for the heck of it I clicked on Send without anything in the mail, and got a message that first I needed a Subject, etc. So that made me think that it was working and, yes, it now works fine.

Not sure if first clicking on Send did the trick, but doubt it.

Hope it works out for anyone that tries it.
 
mrkgoo said:
Lol, mine is messed up too - looks like some of the currency values are now pointing to different things. Not sure if it's related to Safari or not though.

My NZ dollar is suddenly worth over 30 times more US dollars than it was.

edit: I think I found the problem. The second currency field is listed from US -> Venuzualian (alphabetical order with US first), while the first field is strictly alphabetical. It seems as the values have all shifted by one slot.
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Nope not Safari related -> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1583648

But strange, mine was working fine until now.
 
tonka2 said:
I found in another forum what I call a temporary fix for Hotmail. Go to Safari/Preferences/Advanced and check "Show Develop menu." Then click on the signin to Hotmail. Once in click the Develop menu and choose "User agent." I tried Firefox as some suggested but it didn't work, so finally chose the top one "Default automatically," then clicked on New and when the new mail opened, just for the heck of it I clicked on Send without anything in the mail, and got a message that first I needed a Subject, etc. So that made me think that it was working and, yes, it now works fine.

Not sure if first clicking on Send did the trick, but doubt it.

Hope it works out for anyone that tries it.
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thanks for this!
 
I am liking it less and less. I've got two secure sites I have to use for office work. One does not work (says the browser is not accepting cookies—but it is) and the other takes an average of three minutes to load a page. Everything works fine in FireFox.

The Top Pages page has empty windows/no preview and I still have not figured out what the blue stars are for.

I did find the stop loading this page button. Yeah!
 
Mail Quits

The Safari Beta is Great... the problem is that, since I installed it my mail application is not working.
When I open it it quits unexpectedly in ten seconds.
Does anyone has an idea of how to fix it?:confused:
 
dpichel said:
The Safari Beta is Great... the problem is that, since I installed it my mail application is not working.
When I open it it quits unexpectedly in ten seconds.
Does anyone has an idea of how to fix it?:confused:
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Yes. Apple will have an idea.

Report that bug!
 
Detlev said:
I.. and I still have not figured out what the blue stars are for.
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From What's new in Safari:

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Is it me, or do back and forward buttons now refresh their respective pages instead of cached pages?
 
Just compress all tabs in one window apple, no reason to add the ... thingy, it's a messy solution...you ve copied opera in so many respects, copy that too...
 
DMann said:
Actually, I do not have that experience. When I zoom in on this page, unlike with Safari 3 and Firefox, the frame width does expand to accommodate the growth of text size. While reverse zooming, the user space decreases accordingly. RI or not, this is a welcome improvement.
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This is what would happen if your window was already sized with "room to spare", so to speak. If you started your zoom at the point where the window was already filled with the main body of the page, the width proportions would be constrained and the text would grow within them. Then as you expanded the size of the window, the proportions would grow to accommodate. It works the same way in Opera, and is a function, I believe, of the CSS used to format the page. You still ought to be able to observe how the relationship between the "text" block and the "user" block changes in a sub-optimal fashion. Once again, this is just a function of the CSS. From my understanding of RI (which is admittedly limited), if you were to zoom then the proportions of everything on the page would retain a direct relationship with each other. It looks like the way Apple have implemented page zooming is very similar to the way Opera have done it for the past few years.
 
I'm betting the real reason for moving the tabs to the top is because this is a function that will be implemented in the Finder. Maybe in Snow? It would definitely be nice to have a tabbed Finder. Since the tabs would represent different windows, not different sites within a window, they would actually make sense at the OS level. They're just idiotic at the top of the window in the browswer. Farther to move to select, harder to read page title, etc.
 
bretm said:
I'm betting the real reason for moving the tabs to the top is because this is a function that will be implemented in the Finder. Maybe in Snow? It would definitely be nice to have a tabbed Finder. Since the tabs would represent different windows, not different sites within a window, they would actually make sense at the OS level. They're just idiotic at the top of the window in the browswer. Farther to move to select, harder to read page title, etc.
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They're not completed idiotic, cause the value in the location bar is dependent on the tab, not the other way round.

I'd rather have a split view in the Finder (to make it easy to move files between and compare locations) before we get tabs.
 
HEY APPLE IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU HAVE TO CLICK THE TOP RIGHT OF THE TAB TO MOVE IT ABOUT INSTEAD OF THE ANYWHERE ON THE TAB AS IN CHROME?

NO. IT'S JUST BAD INTERFACE.
:mad:
 
bretm said:
I'm betting the real reason for moving the tabs to the top is because this is a function that will be implemented in the Finder. Maybe in Snow? It would definitely be nice to have a tabbed Finder.
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I think that would be a great idea. I always have too many Finder windows opened. Using a kind of "drawer" or "tab" interface instead would make it a LOT easier to find that one Finder window you need, plus make it easier to drag and drop a file to another location.
 
Fess up Apple its not just computers you make!

Ok Apple its time to fess up. You keep churning out things that are so far ahead of the technology front that you must have been using a time machine but I think you have let the cat out of the bag with Safari as I think you have installed it on my machine as I can google something faster than I can load a simple text file from my harddrive even with the app already open. I am seriously impressed!

Spence
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Others say "Snappier". I say "Slower" I have no idea what happened, Yesterday I installed Safari 4 and it seemed to work great. Today it is definitely slower that all four of my web browsers.
 
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