POLL: Safari 4 tabs

[kunze50]

Command + click to select a tab would be useful.

 

[InkMaster]

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.

 

[0858131]

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.

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!

 

[InkMaster]

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!

Sigh... if only Steve with his anal attention to detail would be back... 🙁

 

[Melrose]

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.

 

[michael.lauden]

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! 🙂

 

[Melrose]

^^ Kudos. I couldn't remember where I'd seen it. 🙂

 

[michael.lauden]

^^ Kudos. I couldn't remember where I'd seen it. 🙂

😉 my buddy showed me that and i saved it on a sticky note

 

[cube]

you have to enter both:

DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign

AND

DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle

to get the blue loading bar! 🙂

But where does the reload button go then?

 

[ryanrul]

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).

 

[michael.lauden]

But where does the reload button go then?

you can goto


view -> customize toolbar


and you can drag everything where you want it to be.