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I want to switch from Firefox to Safari... but...

That-Is-Bull said:
The ones you posted after mine? Hard not to.

And even if I could get Safari addons to work, there's still no Tab Mix Plus as far as I know.
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Yes, I posted them after yours. It's called a response. What does Tab Mix Plus have to do with Ad-Blocking? I'm just saying there's ad-blocking in Safari, since you had mentioned it.
 
Consultant said:
Command-{
or
Command-}

scrolls through your open tabs in Safari. Really convenient.
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Quite unconvenient in contrast to visually scrolling the tab bar with your mousewheel to then select the tab of your choice, not having to go through all tabs (via command-{ or -}), and unfortunately not what the person you were referring to meant.
If you click the "mousewheel button" in Firefox you can move the mouse up and down, and thus scroll the page. I haven't tried it, but it doesn't seem to be possible wth Safari, according to this poster.
 
That-Is-Bull said:
I've been wanting to switch to Safari for awhile too, but Safari doesn't have AdBlock or StumbleUpon and the way it uses tabs is horrible. Also, I can't resize the window past the dock, which is very annoying and useless. Firefox 3 is going to be faster and better integrated with OS X so I'm just waiting for it.
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safari does have adblock. as a matter of fact, i just installed it 1 hour ago, when i noticed i had a lot of ad's. It's called Safari Adblock
 
somebody give a comprehensive introduction of safari adblock? or pitchelmt? lets see how they stack up against adblock+ of firefox
 
Is it yet possible to change the default search bar from google.com to a localised setting - such as .co.uk

For country specific searches this is rather annoying. Last time I checked you had to manually butcher Safari's package...
 
Not really comprehensive, but to get down to the essential difference (imho) it would seem that PithHelmet offers more customisation in which elements (Flash, Midi, Images) to block.
Safari Adblock uses lists maintained by the adblock plus team and is currently just meant to be installed and "forgotten about".

@northerngit:
To my knowledge this, and installing of further searchengines (as with Firefox) is still not possible in any user friendly manner.
 
northerngit said:
Is it yet possible to change the default search bar from google.com to a localised setting - such as .co.uk

For country specific searches this is rather annoying. Last time I checked you had to manually butcher Safari's package...
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I haven't tried it, but this may help.
 
ToMacs is a cool way of syncing your bookmarks (and other stuff see screenshot, though the safari bookmarks logo is half chopped off) between different computers and different user accounts on the same or different computers and it's free.

I really like it.

And you save bookmarks in a folder.

Get it here:

http://philippe.durix.free.fr/ToMacsen.html
 

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That-Is-Bull said:
You acted as if I should've seen your responses before I posted. Seems strange to randomly ask someone if they saw your responses to other people, eight months after that someone posted in the thread.
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No, I didn't notice the date of your original post. I responded because I saw BlakTornado had done the same today, not 8 months ago, after I had already posted. My mistake for not checking all the dates in the thread.
 
ggjstudios said:
... and the problem with SIMBL is.... ? Works fine for me!
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SIMBL hacks your apps, rather than plugging into them. Not that I have any problem with that, but I'm sure having the option to install a non-hack adblock and a plugin adblock is a decent option to have, for those that don't want to install SIMBL.

Personally, I could never get SIMBL working. Maybe I just did it wrong, but hey.
 
Since ya'll are discussing Safarin in such a delightful manner; one thing that irks me is the address bar.

Is there a way to make the address bar drop down to show the previous websites you had been to without having to type something like it does in firefox?
 
Ozz.Man said:
I used Firefox for a very long time. But one day I realized how much slower and laggy it was compared to Safari.
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Same here. I've used Firefox since about v1.0, but changed to Safari about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. The only thing I really hate about Firefox on OS X is the scrolling. Apart from the fact that it's slow and uses pretty much 100% CPU when smooth scrolling, it also only scrolls a certain number of lines at a time. So whereas in Safari I can quite easily scroll just one pixel in any direction, Firefox will jump down about 3 lines even when barely moving my finger on the trackpad.

Unfortunately Safari doesn't really have very good adblocking though. Yes, it has Safari Adblock and a few others, but they don't compare to ABP + Easylist on Firefox. It misses a fair few ads, and blocks things that aren't ads. When using Safari, sometimes I'll click on a normal, harmless link and it will simply send me to a blank page with something like "safariadblock:blank" as the URL :confused:
 
seanneko said:
Same here. I've used Firefox since about v1.0, but changed to Safari about 6 months ago and haven't looked back.
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again, try firefox 3.0 and addon YASS (fine turn of pref of this addon is needed, but worthy of the nice result, not only for trackpad, but also for mice.)

6 months can be night and day, sometimes.
 
if you use stumble upon... and tor... and greasemonkey.... etc....

you'd never turn back. FF3 is well worth the switch back. or at use both at the same time. i occasionally use safari just because i like it and get a little sentimental.
 
seanneko said:
It misses a fair few ads, and blocks things that aren't ads. When using Safari, sometimes I'll click on a normal, harmless link and it will simply send me to a blank page with something like "safariadblock:blank" as the URL :confused:
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I've had that sometimes.

But to be fair, I was trying to view the website of an ad-network :p lol
 
clevin said:
again, try firefox 3.0 and addon YASS (fine turn of pref of this addon is needed, but worthy of the nice result, not only for trackpad, but also for mice.)

6 months can be night and day, sometimes.
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Hmm, I just tried that addon under FF3 and can't get it to work the way I like.

I've set sensitivity to 1 (the only setting which lets you scroll by single pixels), and even with acceleration set to the absolute maximum the scrolling speed is way too slow to be usable.

In Safari, if I move down the trackpad slowly then it will just scroll one pixel at a time, but if I move quickly it can scroll many pages at once.
 
seanneko said:
I've set sensitivity to 1 (the only setting which lets you scroll by single pixels), and even with acceleration set to the absolute maximum the scrolling speed is way too slow to be usable.
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i know the names the author used are not very accurate. i will do a test later when i get to my mac and offer some suggestions.
 
the preference you need to set is "stride". Change it to a smaller value such as 50, 40, 30, 20 etc.

also the keyboard setting isn't for Mac, mice settings applied to touchpad of macbook(pro) too, thats where you should operate.
 
Sorry, stride is what I meant by sensitivity. It seems to be the amount of pixels that it scrolls by. If I set it to 40, it will scroll by 40 pixels regardless of how slowly I move down on the trackpad. But if I set it to 1, the top speed of the scrolling is too slow and it takes forever to go down multiple pages.
 
huh, no i dont think stride is the amount of px in scrolling, i can see each line of word gradually move up pass the UI with stride at 20, 30.

I dont have my MB right now so I can't test touchpad again..... anyway, YASS is best I can find for now. if it doesn't work for you. feel free choose whichever browser fits your need :)
 
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