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Apple Seeds Safari 5.2 for OS X Lion to Developers
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Thunderbird and Calibre are free. However, I mentioned in a previous post on this thread, Calibre does not necessarily display feeds directly, after parsing. Calibre turns feeds into ebooks in the format you want, thus you can read them in say Calibre itself, iBooks, Kindle app, etc. Thunderbird parses feeds and displays them like incoming e-mail, just like Mail on Snow Leopard and Leopard. However, you can also use a web app called TT-RSS, a free, as in beer, and open source self-hosted alternative to Google Reader, so you can install it on your Mac, since I don't think Apple will get rid of Apache anytime soon, because most people are more familiar with that than NGINX.
I just hope that they do not do what they do in iOS. I have a WFi only iPad and if I put in an RSS/ATOM feed address that uses a LAN IP address, instead of a public IP address or domain name listed in a remote DNS, it cannot read the thing, which is where TT-RSS and desktop/mail clients that support RSS/ATOM are better than online services like Google Reader.
The Reader button is entirely too big, it's obnoxious looking if you ask me... and doesn't fit in with Apple's way of doing things with an elegant and minimalistic approach. It looked way better as a small gray button within the address bar like we saw in 5.1
In my experience more or less no one reads their feeds through Safari. Most people don't know what rss is so they don't care about this, and the people that do read feeds does it through Google Reader or Reeder. So to remove this to make it less confusing for new people I don't mind.
So far, I am not a fan of 5.2
I don't like the tabs size change (it's how IE 8 did it)
I prefer my search bar and address bars separated (again, IE has combined them since version 6, I believe)
Also like IE, it no longer saves password for certain sites, like PayPal; I am a strong believer in this type of security decision being MY responsibility not the browser's.
On the good side, it seems to be handling going "back" much better than 5.1, not constantly asking to resend a form's data just because you hit the back button.
It does seem a little faster, and so far stability is not an issue.
I don't like the tabs size change (it's how IE 8 did it)
I prefer my search bar and address bars separated (again, IE has combined them since version 6, I believe)
Also like IE, it no longer saves password for certain sites, like PayPal; I am a strong believer in this type of security decision being MY responsibility not the browser's.
On the good side, it seems to be handling going "back" much better than 5.1, not constantly asking to resend a form's data just because you hit the back button.
It does seem a little faster, and so far stability is not an issue.
The only thing the tab size resembles is Safari on the iPad, IE has normally sized tabs. Which sucks, I agree.
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Wonderful and awsome... safari wirh RSS feed. But can Anyone tell me how I can open my RSS on Safari?
Wonderful and awsome... safari wirh RSS feed. But can Anyone tell me how I can open my RSS on Safari?
I liked RSS feed as well as the little back button that took you back when doing searches, actually Safari not looks almost like Chrome, its fast its nice but I do miss RSS which I did use and a few other Safari specific functions. They should have changed but not removed functions. 