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POLL: Safari 4 tabs
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I personally quite like the tabs being on top. However I have one relatively big complaint about them...
That being that I can just click on a tab and instantly be taken to it as I could in Safari 3 and any other browser. Here I have to hover over a tab for a second and then click. If I click instantly, I end up dragging the whole window... Just a bit of a pain in the rear.
Hoping they'll polish that behavior by time final is outta the door.
That being that I can just click on a tab and instantly be taken to it as I could in Safari 3 and any other browser. Here I have to hover over a tab for a second and then click. If I click instantly, I end up dragging the whole window... Just a bit of a pain in the rear.
Hoping they'll polish that behavior by time final is outta the door.
Yes -- this is the thing that aggravates me the most. I try to click a tab and I accidently end up moving or minimizing the window (due to double-click). Arg!
I don't like the new way at all (I currently run S4 but used that Terminal command to get the tabs back where they belong).
I think Apple jumped too quickly on Chrome's bandwagon with this one. It makes no sense to me why they feel this is better: My mouse stays 99% of the time within the actually web page. I don't like having to look at the browser chrome to go to another tab - the old way the tabs are right there at the top of the page.
I wouldn't be surprised if they change it back, or, when Chrome doesn't take off as fast as Google thinks it will, Apple will include a very obvious 'toggle tabs' feature in the preferences.
I think Apple jumped too quickly on Chrome's bandwagon with this one. It makes no sense to me why they feel this is better: My mouse stays 99% of the time within the actually web page. I don't like having to look at the browser chrome to go to another tab - the old way the tabs are right there at the top of the page.
I wouldn't be surprised if they change it back, or, when Chrome doesn't take off as fast as Google thinks it will, Apple will include a very obvious 'toggle tabs' feature in the preferences.
if you guys hate the new tabs
close safari and open terminal
enter
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE
and the tabs will be where they used to be. there is also a command line to get the blue loading bar back. i'm surprised that there isn't as much publicity about this command on MacRumors.
you have to enter both:
DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign
AND
DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle
to get the blue loading bar!
close safari and open terminal
enter
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE
and the tabs will be where they used to be. there is also a command line to get the blue loading bar back. i'm surprised that there isn't as much publicity about this command on MacRumors.
you have to enter both:
DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign
AND
DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle
to get the blue loading bar!
^^ Kudos. I couldn't remember where I'd seen it.
my buddy showed me that and i saved it on a sticky noteyou have to enter both:
DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign
AND
DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle
to get the blue loading bar!
But where does the reload button go then?
I was really against the tabs on top at first, but over the past few weeks I've started to appreciate the switch. When you have multiple windows open, the new design allows you to see all of the open tabs. Some design tweaks are still needed to pull it all together, but overall I'm happy with the switch.
(I just hope that it's unique to Safari andnot something that's available to all os x applications. If lots of applications start having tabs at the top, it will quickly become a mess).
(I just hope that it's unique to Safari andnot something that's available to all os x applications. If lots of applications start having tabs at the top, it will quickly become a mess).
you can goto
view -> customize toolbar
and you can drag everything where you want it to be.