Safari 1.2 Details

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by uv23
For the love of God, add cache control, Apple! Maybe it's a coincidence, but since installing 1.2 I have to constantly manually refresh most of the forums I visit to see updated threads and topics. Why can't they just add an option to check for a new version of a page each time, like every single other browser out there... *sigh*

Get a program like Safari Enhancer and turn off caching if you are on a broadband connection of some sort. Pages will actually load faster because it won't have to check to see if it's chached.

It would be nice if this was an option in Safari though.

 

[illumin8]

Client side SSL authentication still doesn't work.

My work uses a client-side SSL certificate that they issue to us to authenticate into our customer support database. This is one of the features that Safari 1.2 "supposedly" supports now. Well, it still doesn't work, not even after importing the private key and certificate into my keychain. Has anyone else gotten this feature to work? I have to use Mozilla FireFox in order to access this site, and I really would like to be 100% Safari.

Also, while I'm bitching about SSL connectivity, has anyone ever noticed that Safari hogs 100% of the CPU whenever it's doing SSL handshaking? This is completely unacceptable and smacks of poor coding. Mozilla FireFox is able to negotiate SSL just fine without eating more than 1 or 2 percent of the CPU, but whenever I use Safari, or even Mail.app (I use IMAP over SSL for my email), I can count on my CPU usage spiking to 100% every time I request a page. Apple needs to get off their ass and fix this browser. It's kind of sad when the code it's based on (gecko and Konqueror) is a better browser than Safari is. You'd think that Apple would have at least improved it, not made it worse.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by billyboy
I used to have this plug in with Jaguar and it was great, but it just seems obsolete now with the speed that PDFs get opened in Panther. Or does it have some other nifty features I never found out about?

Well for one it opens PDFs right in Safari without having to download them to your disk. From there if you want to open it in Preview without saving it to disk just go to the right pointing triangle above the right hand scroll bar and click open. It will open in Preview directly from Safari.

 

[tny]

Re: Re: Safari looking like IE...

Originally posted by Spock
Thats funny, and if we ask the game companys respectfully that they will port all games to the mac at the same time it comes out for the PC

Apples and oranges. There are plenty of banks that work fine in Safari (for instance, Sovereign Bank, BankNorth, in addition to the other banks mentioned here). So, if they don't fix their banking system for non-IE users, non-IE users can use another bank.

 

[Doctor Q]

With Safari 1.2, I still don't get a control-click choice to Copy Image Address to Clipboard, or words to that effect. Grrrr.

 

[MacBandit]

Re: what about the new bugs?

Originally posted by tileeater
i've got 2 macs running panther and safari 1.2 both have the same tabs issue. it's impossible to tell if a tab will open or if it will decide not to show up. this is only an issue when 'always show tab bar' is not checked.

occasionally (pretty often actually) the tab bar just decides to stay hidden.

I had this problem with Safari for a couple days after the update. I then ran all the options in System Optimizer X and repaired the permissions and I haven't had the problem for at least 3 days when I was having it a couple times a day prior to the repairs.

System Optimizer is just another program to run nightly/weekly/monthly tasks, prebind, and empty caches. You can also use programs like Onyx or Cocktail or run the tasks from the terminal if you know how. After I ran it I started up on the OSX install disk and ran permissions from there. I learned quite a while ago that the best way to repair permissions was from a different startup disk.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by garybooberry
I still cannot "tab around" in forms to radio buttons, drop down menus etc. - on two Macs (a Sawtooth G4 and an MDD G4).

Is there a pref. setting, because I can't find it...

You should have an option in Safari preferences to under advanced to tab to links if you do select the option you like there. Once you have done that and reasured me that you indeed have the updated Safari by having that option go to the system preferences. There go to the keyboard prefpane and then within that prefpane select the keyboard shortcuts tab. At the bottom left of the window is an option to turn on full keyboard access. Turn it on. Once you have done this you can tab to anything within the currently active window area. For instance if you click on the button bar of a Safari window you can tab through the buttons. On the other hand if you click on the active page area of a Safari window you will only tab through the links (if you set that option in the Safari prefs) and the input areas and buttons etc.. This will work within any program now that you turned on full keyboard access.