How this Safari update got past internal testing is mind boggling.
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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur Safari 15.1 Beta With Relocated Favorites Bar
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Having the same Safari across multiple OSs, this has been going on for a long time.
I, a daily user of Safari for well over a decade, finally dumped it yesterday (on the Mac at least). It had crashed one too many times and I still couldn’t find the right mix of settings to make it as useable (both aesthetically and functionally) as Safari 14. I’ve no idea what’s gone wrong but it boggles the mind.
It’ll take a lot more than a repositioned favourites bar to get me back on side, but eh, hopefully this is just the start of a big turn around.
It’ll take a lot more than a repositioned favourites bar to get me back on side, but eh, hopefully this is just the start of a big turn around.
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Yeah.
I don't use that; totally optional.
They pride themselves on being the anti-Chrome, so I'm going with that for now.
Then Apple needs to move the address bar to the bottom of the screen like with iOS 15 🤦♂️
I've been using Safari 15.0 on macOS 11.6 and about once a day it clears all my cookies so I'm logged out of all my sites. Very annoying, and as I can't downgrade to Safari 14.x I've currently switched over to Firefox.
All these recent Safari changes (both on iOS and macOS) are classic examples of what happens when you've got a fairly mature piece of software and a development team that's trying to justify its current staffing levels.
Was screen space really an issue to justify this design philosophy in the first place? Like was that a real concern a single person ever had?
And they choose to fix what's not broken, instead of improving tab overview, history page, making bookmarks more intuitive and useful to use, improving start page widgets performance and layout, etc etc
No no no, you're making the same mistake they did. It's not that they chose the wrong shades to differentiate the tabs. It's that they thought shade alone was enough to differentiate them. There is no correct way around for the shading, especially when the background can be any colour at all. Every other tab system in existence uses colour and one or more other cues like connecting shapes, outlines, font weights, and drop shadows. The thing is, we went through all this with the stupid shift key on iOS, and it's like they've learned nothing from that.
Seems to me Apple employees have Microsoft Edge as a default browser. They don't even use Safari over there. Please Tim Apple, I get that you are going to simple 2D designs, but tab has to be 3D in order for us to differentiate between active tab and so on. Make it 4D please if possible.
I never had to think about Safari until now and how it operated on either iOS or Mac OS. iOS requires too many touches now for me. I was used to it subconsciously. It was easy on the brain as it should be. You shouldn't have to think "left foot, right foot" to walk. It should just happen.
It's a mess on both platforms IMO. I had to turn the colours off on website altogether because dark sites reverse the colour scheme for active tabs. I tried compact and it's just not for me.
I really wish they'd give us the option for the lighter tabs as active. All these years, never had to think about how to use a browser. WTH Apple!?
It's a mess on both platforms IMO. I had to turn the colours off on website altogether because dark sites reverse the colour scheme for active tabs. I tried compact and it's just not for me.
I really wish they'd give us the option for the lighter tabs as active. All these years, never had to think about how to use a browser. WTH Apple!?
To me it looks quite good actually:
"Brave blocks invasive ads by default. If you turn on Brave Rewards, you can earn tokens for viewing Brave Ads. These ads aren’t like the ones you see on the web. They’re completely private: none of your personal info, browsing history or anything else ever leaves your device. That’s because Brave downloads the whole ad catalogue and selects the right ads for you locally on your device. And when you see an ad Brave picks for you, you earn 70% of what the advertiser paid, guaranteed. Brave Ads look like system notifications. They’re not distracting or intrusive, and they’re not mixed in with the pages you read online. And you get to pick how many, and how often to see them."
Just when I got used to the new and completely illogical placement of the Favorites Bar. Time to get used again.
