Thanks! The add ons I had found for Safari weren't working in Yosemite but this one does.
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Apple Encouraging Chrome and Firefox Users to Try Safari After Installing Yosemite
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Thanks! The add ons I had found for Safari weren't working in Yosemite but this one does.
Thanks for reminding me of CMD+Z, I honestly forgot about that. Not as great as in Chrome, but still better than nothing!
About the HTML5 Player, there must be something odd with my Safari then. When I went to Youtube it simply didn't load nothing. I got the "download flash player" message.
There are things that one can do to disable or minimize the data mining aspects of Chrome. I wonder how many people who are so concerned about data mining use social media, cellphones, and not using a search engine like DuckDuckGo.
I have a very robust personal privacy protocol. Of course duckduckgo is one of them, not using anything google is another. For me the fact of the matter is Safari is still not ready for prime time, there would probably be much greater extension support if apple would do safari for windows.
When you add a non apple ssd you usually have to enable trim which keeps the ssd optimized.
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When I'm on battery I like to use Safari as it seems to be more battery efficient compared to Chrome.
Why is "Sort By Name" useful? My Safari bookmarks are organized in folders based on the subject I choose, like Shopping, Travel, Design, etc. Organizing by name is useless.
How is that different than just clicking the Full Screen icon on a YouTube video?
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How is it useful to you? I'm curious.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work for many links that don't point directly to the file you actually want to download. For instance, my bank provides statements in PDF format, but the link to that PDF is not direct; it leads to a .ashx page which is what gets downloaded if you try to do a right-click "Save As" in Safari.
This is quite possibly the simplest thing to give users an option to do and Apple stubbornly refuses to give us that control. I'm even more surprised that there's not yet been an extension created to address this.
It's not, I've never used it, didn't even know it was there. But it was apparently useful to the poster you were responding to. Sorry for butting in, I guess.
Face it, Apple; people PREFER Chrome. Of all the disastrously poor, half-baked abandoned "projects" Google embarks on, Chrome has to be one of their most successful products... and WAY WAY better than Safari.
You've been up-staged - no need to worry, you're better at other things
You've been up-staged - no need to worry, you're better at other things
1. Vertical tabs
2. Vertical tabs
3.Vertical tabs.
ESPECIALLY on a big display, vertical tab are so much easier to use, navigate, identify AND a MUCH better use of the extra horizontal workspace.
If you've never tried vertical tabs and love Safari- DONT EVER TRY THEM. You will cry when you try to go back to that ridiculous tab bar at the top :-(.
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Face it, Apple; people PREFER Chrome. Of all the disastrously poor, half-baked abandoned "projects" Google embarks on, Chrome has to be one of their most successful products... and WAY WAY better than Safari.
You've been up-staged - no need to worry, you're better at other things
Don't give Google all that credit. They are just using Chromium. I will and do use Chromium but Google Chrome will not grace my Mac.
I'll say what I've already said as it seems it's not getting into your head.
You can re-order, rename, add folders to bookmark in Safari.
Oh, and not everyone wants them in alphabetical order.
OK - for what Google contribute, and for how they made it SIMPLE and cross platform, it works. No Safari on Windows or Android, is there...
For people who use Chrome to sync all their Google stuff, Chrome is important. I'm one of these "whatever works" people - I'm not into all that freetardy "open source" piffle - a product needs to work AND NOT get in my way, and if it does that, I'll use it, and I don't care WHO makes it. Simple as.
I use Chrome because I don't like the Windows version of Safari and I value a consistent experience at work and at home. Chrome delivers that.
I can see why some people would use Chrome, but I can't see why so many use it. Maybe the advertising. I'm constantly assaulted with Chrome ads online if I use Safari without an ad blocker.
What Chrome is best at is syncing between Windows and Mac, if that's an issue for you.
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Except to the general consumer, they probably haven't even touched safari for 3 or 4 years...
But it's not "free as in FREEDOM"
Yeah, open-source fanatics tick me off a little sometimes too.
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What's wrong with Safari? I use it almost exclusively, and I've tried almost everything else.
And by the way, every single Google website (plus ones they sponsor like Mega.co.nz, Speedtest.net, and many others) constantly tells you to download Chrome if you're not using it. "Speedtest.net scores too low? Try a faster browser!" Really, Apple isn't even close to being the biggest offender in this way.
almost my only reason to use Chrome is that it has keyword search which last I heard was not a feature in Safari. Its just so much more convenient to go to URL bar and type "amz" then Playstation 3, than actually going to Amazon.com and use the search over there.