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Yeah, and there's no need for one..
well, to each of their own, group thinking is so 1600s.

still, I wonder why there is a need for a button called "report a bug to apple" for safari, but no need for a button called "new tab"? interesting, at least.
 
for me the speed difference is incredible from what I've been getting from firefox. I mean pages are loading ridiculously fast and everything is just working amazingly fast. So you guys are saying that the latest beta of safari currently available is faster than the currently available webkit?
 
I tried it with large discussions on /. with the 'new discussion system' enabled (a 'demanding javascript application') and, wow! I also tested Opera 9.5 some time ago and it also has vastly improved javascript performance.

You know what I hope? That IE8 (or an update to IE7), WebKit/KHTML, Gecko and Opera all get decent JS performance and that web developers will *use* it so that older browsers become too slow to work with. Maybe that will kill IE6 finally so we can all write almost quirk-less XHTML Strict code that renders fine in every browser.
 
well, to each of their own, group thinking is so 1600s.

still, I wonder why there is a need for a button called "report a bug to apple" for safari, but no need for a button called "new tab"? interesting, at least.

What is wrong with right clicking on the tab bar?
 
What is wrong with right clicking on the tab bar?

nothing is wrong. but you can't blame people for wanting it to be easier. and I think one click is easier than two different mice button clicks with moving between them.
 
nothing is wrong. but you can't blame people for wanting it to be easier. and I think one click is easier than two different mice button clicks with moving between them.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. What I find funny about that discussion, though, is that didn't even realise it didn't have such a button. I never use buttons at all. Always shortcuts and no top bar/navigation bar. I was quite surprised to discover you guys were right. That _is_ a weird thing to leave out.
 
I can't seem to install webkit into my apps folder..it just launches from the disk image which I cannot eject afterwards..
any idea why I can't install this into my apps folder?
 
I can't seem to install webkit into my apps folder..it just launches from the disk image which I cannot eject afterwards..
any idea why I can't install this into my apps folder?

you can't drag it to your application folder?
 
you can't drag it to your application folder?

i've dragged it to my apps folder but when I try to eject the disk image it says it's in use and can't be ejected.
On a side note..in my finder on the sidebar my applications folder has completely disappeared.
Pardon the ignorance, but how do I get it back? I have the apps folder in my dock but it's not in the sidebar in the finder.
 
i've dragged it to my apps folder but when I try to eject the disk image it says it's in use and can't be ejected.
On a side note..in my finder on the sidebar my applications folder has completely disappeared.
Pardon the ignorance, but how do I get it back? I have the apps folder in my dock but it's not in the sidebar in the finder.
you can always open finder and drag the application folder to side bar
On this forum going back does as you describe (it is hardly slow though) but going forwards is lickety split. Going between this forum and another site it is all from cache and blazing, going between different sites it is blazing.
I don't think its a forum issue, I just tried msnbc.com, go there, click any link to read an article, then click backward button, safari/webkit is still reading something and takes 1~2 sec to display the page, while firefox/opera display the page INSTANTLY.

another question: how "snappy" (word of the day huh?) is it compared to the FF3 beta?
well, it IS fast, so if you only equal whole browser snappiness to javascript speed, which is hardly true, webkit is indeed fast. however, like I mentioned, javascript is only part of the webpage. And so far, webkit back/forward loading from history is quite slow compare to firefox/opera.

Here is test result of Javascript.
 

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Just a quick note on something I saw earlier in this thread, before the news posting...

I wouldn't recommend FireFix (or NightShift, for that matter) to the average user. Nightlies are exactly what their name implies - nightly builds of software. What this means is that bug fixes and new code improvements get checked into the tree every day and complied into the "nightly," but that also means any new, possibly data-corrupting or show-stopping bugs could have gotten complied in too. Firefox's nightlies are called "Minefield" for a good reason, folks. As someone who regularly does bug triage on Bugzilla, I really have to discourage people from using nightlies unless they have a specific purpose in using them or are a developer. They're untested and frequently completely unstable.

That said...use them if you want, but use them at your own risk.
 
for some reason, the text rendered by webkit looks a lot cleaner. maybe its just me...

well, you are not the only one who say so. But I can't tell, especially with FX3. Still, I might be one of the people who prefers Vista's font AA approach.
 
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