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Is anyone else really impressed with Safari 3.0?

I am currently using both safari 3 and camino 1.5... can't decide which one I like better, they are about dead even :)

I love the cmd + F feature and the moving of tabs to windows in the new safari... but camino just works so seamlessly, especially the new version, I went from 1.1 beta to 1.5... its like night and day

EDIT: forgot to ask, how do you resize text entry boxes?
 
It's excellent so far. Other than the changes in Tabs and slightly quicker page loading I don't notice anything different yet from Safari 2.

Thanks for the new "find" feature tip, I didn't even know it was changed! Very nice. Oh and spell check is great too :)
 
I'm not sure whether it was on Safari 2, but if you press Command and click on the window title you get a history list for that window. (It also works if you right-click but not if you option-click :confused: )

Does anyone know how, if it's possible, to move a tab out into a new window (so that there's no other tabs in that window) then at a later stage drag that window back into the original (or a different) one? NOTE : I have it set up so it doesn't show the tab bar if there's less than two tabs in the window.

I really like Safari 3 and have got quite irritated that everyone's complaining about its "instability" on both the mac and PC versions. IT'S A BETA, but of course I don't need to tell YOU that.
 
Reopen All Windows From Last Session + Reopen Last Closed Window Are Most Important

Foxglove9 said:
It's excellent so far. Other than the changes in Tabs and slightly quicker page loading I don't notice anything different yet from Safari 2.

Thanks for the new "find" feature tip, I didn't even know it was changed! Very nice. Oh and spell check is great too :)
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History Menu->

Reopen Last Closed Window

Reopen All Windows From Last Session

I think those two items are way more valuable than anything else, next being the Mobile Tabs.
 
AppleMan101 said:
Does anyone know how, if it's possible, to move a tab out into a new window (so that there's no other tabs in that window) then at a later stage drag that window back into the original (or a different) one? NOTE : I have it set up so it doesn't show the tab bar if there's less than two tabs in the window.
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You can use the Merge All Windows in the Windows menu to merge everything together. But, if you have, say, three windows and only want to move one window into another one, you'll need to show the tab bar in that window (using View > Show Tab Bar or shift-command-T) before you can move it over.
 
Window menu-> Move Tab to New Window

AppleMan101 said:
I'm not sure whether it was on Safari 2, but if you press Command and click on the window title you get a history list for that window. (It also works if you right-click but not if you option-click :confused: )

Does anyone know how, if it's possible, to move a tab out into a new window (so that there's no other tabs in that window) then at a later stage drag that window back into the original (or a different) one? NOTE : I have it set up so it doesn't show the tab bar if there's less than two tabs in the window.
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Thanks for the History On Title Right or Command click tip.

Yes you can easily move a tab into its own window and even from there to another window full of tabs. I don't see how you set a less than two tabs hides the tab bar. But You can isolate a tab into a new window 2 different ways - one I just discovered.

1. Drag the tab DOWN and it will leave the set showing as a miniature. Then release it and it will open in its own window.

2. While on the page you want to isolate choose Window menu-> Move Tab to New Window

Also notice a Merge All Windows command in that menu. Now that is VERY Cool. This new Mobile Tab management is really amazing isn't it? How could anyone stay with 2.0.4 another minute? No crashes at all after removing SafariStand. Very fast.
 
Multimedia said:
I don't see how you set a less than two tabs hides the tab bar...

Very fast.
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If you have View > Hide Tab Bar selected...then the tab bar will magically appear if you open another tab and disappear once you close a tab. That creates a problem when you have a stand alone window with no tab bar, because although you can create a new window out of a tab, you can't create a tab out of a regular (tab bar-less) window (unless you first show the tab bar or use the Merge All Windows command).

The speed is incredible...that and the fact that they've tamed (though not destroyed) the memory leak problems that Safari 2 had are the best features for me.
 
I liked it but had to uninstall it due to a bug I encountered:

I could not close any safari window.. Very stupid bug.. I have to quit the entire app to close it (obviously)

Has anyone else encountered this?
 
wesleyh said:
I liked it but had to uninstall it due to a bug I encountered:

I could not close any safari window.. Very stupid bug.. I have to quit the entire app to close it (obviously)

Has anyone else encountered this?
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OS X or Windows?
 
It seemed nice when I used it. The new tab features are awesome. Didn't get to test it out to thoroughly, though, as it kind of messed a lot of other things up causing me to uninstall it almost immediately.

I wanted to love it, and I think when they get the bugs worked out it will be a really great browser, but until then I can't say that I am too impressed. That's a beta for you, though. Here's to taking my chances with it once more when it's officially released! :)
 
The new features are nice but nothing to write home about and nothing that another browser doesn't already do. Perhaps the final version will bring a bit more whizz-bang, however the 'problems' I have in Safari 2 have all been addressed such as:

- The Capital One (UK) website now loads! In Safari 2, it just displayed a white page. I can now check and pay my bills without loading Firefox! Yay.

- MySpace pages using opacity no longer slow the browser to a crawl. They're not fast when scrolling, but useable anyway!

On the downside, Flip4Mac doesn't like Safari 3 at all. Playing different videos in different tabs causes the video to restart downloading when switching between tabs. It also has a tendency to crash the browser.
 
Multimedia said:
Thanks for the History On Title Right or Command click tip.

Yes you can easily move a tab into its own window and even from there to another window full of tabs. I don't see how you set a less than two tabs hides the tab bar. But You can isolate a tab into a new window 2 different ways - one I just discovered.

1. Drag the tab DOWN and it will leave the set showing as a miniature. Then release it and it will open in its own window.

2. While on the page you want to isolate choose Window menu-> Move Tab to New Window

Also notice a Merge All Windows command in that menu. Now that is VERY Cool. This new Mobile Tab management is really amazing isn't it? How could anyone stay with 2.0.4 another minute? No crashes at all after removing SafariStand. Very fast.
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Well i just resized the reply window so I could see all of your quote without having to scroll :)

In Safari 2 there was an option in the prefs; "Show Tab Bar all the time" which I had unticked. It seems, upon further investigation, that this option has moved to View > Show/Hide Tab Bar. Of course you can't hide the Tab Bar if you have ≥ 2 tabs open.

1/ I already knew about and love this one...very slick

2/ Good find but 1/ is a much nicer implementation

3/ Merge All Windows rocks my socks

4/ What I was asking was similar to 3/. Sometimes I'd like to merge one window with only one tab back into a window with some other tabs already there. But I don't want to merge ALL windows. Hopefully there is/will be some method of dragging the title bar into the Tab Bat of the other window, but I haven't found it yet.

5/ On another note, while CMD-W closes the front most tab/window. CMD-OPT-W closes all but the front most tab...this is sooo useful. (this isn't new)

EDIT: I've found 2 workarounds for 4/, albeit very cumbersome.

1) Add a new to the window CMD+T, drag the old tab to the other window then close window with just the new tab in it.
2) Use the fact that the show/hide Tab Bar now has a shortcut, CMD-SHIFT-T. Show the tab bar, then drag the tab to the window you want. Now you don't a useless window to close afterwards.

I don't want the Tab Bar showing when I don't need it so I'd still like an even slicker way to do this. But props to Apple for the dynamic tab shizzle, they've made my week.
 
AppleMan101 said:
4/ What I was asking was similar to 3/. Sometimes I'd like to merge one window with only one tab back into a window with some other tabs already there. But I don't want to merge ALL windows. Hopefully there is/will be some method of dragging the title bar into the Tab Bat of the other window, but I haven't found it yet.
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Just grab the tab in the window with just the one and drag it to the window with several. It will pop on and the old window will close.

Is that what you're talking about, or am I missing something?
 
Dimwhit said:
Just grab the tab in the window with just the one and drag it to the window with several. It will pop on and the old window will close.

Is that what you're talking about, or am I missing something?
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Not quite...because he has the tab bar off for windows that only have one page (i.e. those that would only have one tab for those of us that have the tab bar showing all the time)...he wants to drag the title bar of that window onto the tab bar of another window to make it a tab. Currently that can't be done unless you Merge All Windows or use shift-command-t to show to tab bar, then drag the tab over.
 
TheAnswer said:
Not quite...because he has the tab bar off for windows that only have one page (i.e. those that would only have one tab for those of us that have the tab bar showing all the time)...he wants to drag the title bar of that window onto the tab bar of another window to make it a tab. Currently that can't be done unless you Merge All Windows or use shift-command-t to show to tab bar, then drag the tab over.
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Ah! Got it.
 
I am using it right now to make this post on Windows XP. It is buggy and has frozen up on me several times.

However, I like the overal appearance and want to use it more when Apple releases another beta.

I will say that it "seems" slower than Firefox, but I think this is due to an option I enabled under Firefox to show the page right away even if the whole page is not completely rendered. Whereas Safari shows the white page until the entire page is rendered. Not sure if Safari has an option for this as well.

I also want to see some extensions to block adds for Safara on Windows. I got so use to seeing no ads that it is unsettling to see them now.:eek:
 
Check Out Stretch

Just discovered a new feature I'm calling "Stretch". Command + Return spreads your Safari 3 window all the way across the monitor it's in. Repeat and it returns to its former size. :eek:
 
Maybe it's a Windows feature to let the program go 'full screen' or something?
 
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