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Apple Releases Safari 4 for Mac and Windows
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Things I love in Safari 4:
- Tabs are back where they should be!
- Faster / snappier performance overall.
- Better toolbar customization, home / new tab / downloads - nice
Things that could be better:
- Ability to turn off Top Sites, forever...
Overall, Safari 4 is a winner and it's now back as my preferred browser.
- Tabs are back where they should be!
- Faster / snappier performance overall.
- Better toolbar customization, home / new tab / downloads - nice
Things that could be better:
- Ability to turn off Top Sites, forever...
Overall, Safari 4 is a winner and it's now back as my preferred browser.
Oh I HATED the tabs on the top oh how I hated it. It was probably the 1 million emails I sent to Apple that set them straight.
I had thought it was a separate UI improvement. I had not thought of it as part of Tabs on top. I was just commenting that I would miss the feature.
That loading graphic has got to change...NOW. It sticks out like nobody's business, especially on pages with a scroll bar on the right.
Times like this make me wish that Apple allowed a small amount of customization.
Times like this make me wish that Apple allowed a small amount of customization.
I don't know if anyone pointed this out, they probably did, but there's a new tab sign still at the very end of the tab bar.. I just noticed it just figured I'd point it out.
I guess I'm just an old fashioned fart and I prefer to use Bookmarks / RSS feeds.
Me too! I find the way Top Sites rearranges my BookMarks Bar intolerably annoying, and pinning to top sites is just an extra step to getting to where I want to be.
why is it such an imposition to SAVE TABS when exiting? This version blows, when used in windows it now looks like some horrible amalgamation between apple and microsoft UIs. What i liked about safari on windows was it gave that apple theme, with the gray windows, the fonts like apple, now its totaly sold out to microsoft. I want safari 3 back, ill stick with chrome till then
Tab bars on the bottom again?
Sorry, but unless that changes, I'm sticking with the 4 beta while I wish for Chrome Mac to be a good replacement for Safari.
Sorry, but unless that changes, I'm sticking with the 4 beta while I wish for Chrome Mac to be a good replacement for Safari.
there are at least fifty ways to get a new tab, but usually use right click, new tab, I know it's not the fastest, but I'm used to it.
Tabs on Top
I came here to see if anyone knew the fate of "Tabs on Top" and it seems as though other users have had that same "vanishing" feeling since installing Safari 4. I was surprised, actually, to hear that most people were disappointed with the new (old) tab alignment. A much ballyhooed feature when the beta first arrived, most users initially pooh-poohed the idea. After never using tabs in previous versions of Safari, I actually got used to them that way. I'm hoping we'll reach some sort of compromise. In the mean time, it seems some users are busy uncovering their fate within Safari's code...bwhahahaha. Good work, all!
I came here to see if anyone knew the fate of "Tabs on Top" and it seems as though other users have had that same "vanishing" feeling since installing Safari 4. I was surprised, actually, to hear that most people were disappointed with the new (old) tab alignment. A much ballyhooed feature when the beta first arrived, most users initially pooh-poohed the idea. After never using tabs in previous versions of Safari, I actually got used to them that way. I'm hoping we'll reach some sort of compromise. In the mean time, it seems some users are busy uncovering their fate within Safari's code...bwhahahaha. Good work, all!
Can you use the three-finger gesture on the trackpad to go from the top of a page to the bottom, and vice versa? I thought that you could, but it's not working. It's one of my favorite trackpad features in Firefox 3.5 beta.
For the first time, I can actually agree with the "Safari seems snappier" statement! It's a welcome addition, considering that before I was getting beachballs with everything.
Nice and speedy.
But, why?
I found the progress bar extremely useful - user feedback on the page loading.
Why did Apple remove it?
I'm glad the tabs are back in the regular place, I really didn't like them at the top of the window. Shame there's no configuration option for people who liked the tabs as per betas.
But, why?
I found the progress bar extremely useful - user feedback on the page loading.
Why did Apple remove it?
I'm glad the tabs are back in the regular place, I really didn't like them at the top of the window. Shame there's no configuration option for people who liked the tabs as per betas.
I miss being able to bring up a new tab on the top right corner, but the custom button works. The interface looks darker, which i don't like.. but other than that, i like this more than the Beta.
I kinda was hoping for tabs on the bottom, and it happened. I'm happy.
I used Safari 4 Buddy to remove taps on top and a few other things. So far I like Safari 4 but I miss the progress bar in the URL window. Can't really tell if anything is faster. Ad Blocker still works tho.