Many times I browse with the keyboard nowhere near me; thus the OPTION of a New Tab button is handy.
Any browser that doesn't offer this OPTION is jokeshop.
And right-click only works in Safari once you have more than one tab going.
Do any of you people use a regular 3-button scroll mouse? Seriously, I picked up a nice Dynex black model 5-button optical for under $20 at Best Buy that works GREAT with my Mac. No "option click" or "command click" or whatever the heck you have to remember to open links into a tab. With either Safari or Firefox, just MIDDLE CLICK and it opens automatically into a new tab. I mean I know some of you are Apple zealots, but seriously Apple mice SUCK BIG TIME. It's one area they REALLY need to admit defeat in and get with the ergnomic 3+ button models.
Griping about having to PUSH a keyboard button to open a tab with a link is SILLY to me because if you bought a real mouse, you'd just have to push the scroll-wheel button to open the tab. I thought the newer mice (mighty mouse?) from Apple (this one that came with this Mac was one of those old round non-ergonomic ones that doesn't even have a 2nd button period) had a button at least in the middle of them even if it has no scroll wheel. Or is that button the right mouse button? I never used one and have no desire to since traditional mice work just fine in OSX.
Don't even get me going on Apple keyboards. I liked the mini-USB hub the one that came with this used PowerMac Digital Audio had, but that's the ONLY thing I liked about it. The keys on it need to be pressed VERY hard to register (I'd often have missing characters when I type because apparently I didn't SMASH the keys hard enough...reminds me a little bit of a manual typewriter, believe it or not.... I can't help but wonder if all those comments about problems with the Macbook Pro's keyboard are due to having similar keys on them that require much harder than normal (as in a typical PC keyboard) pressing to register fully). Then there's the fact that particular model doesn't have a DELETE key (just the backspace one, which it CALLS delete and no END key plus small sized arrow keys in a non-standard location... reminds me of a laptop keyboard, really). I've seen their new style "flat" keyboard and I can't imagine that typing well for high speed typers like myself either.
I picked up a decent Logitech keyboard which works great with this Mac (only downside is the ctrl/option/mac keys are mapped differently, but then I blame that on Apple for not following convention; you CAN remap them in OSX any way you like; I made the standard CTRL key into the Command key since all computers on the face of the earth except ones running Apple operating systems use CTRL-C to copy (etc.) not WINDOW key or ALT key (depending on how you look at it or map it) AND it puts it in a different place so those of us that DO use Windows and Linux are perpetually hitting the wrong key by sheer instinct memory. Mapping command to CTRL works great for MacOSX, but if I run X11, I suddenly have to hit ALT since now CTRL is mapped to ALT instead (since CTRL in OSX isn't used for much).
I tried a Dynex on there earlier, but for some bizarre reason my DVD-RW drive kept opening its door on a reboot (known bug with it apparently on the PowerMac... no idea WHY since the Logitech works perfectly fine). I moved that one over to my PC/Linux machine when its keyboard recently died.
I am anxious to see this new Safari 3.1 (assuming the release it for Tiger) since Safari is SO much faster on this PowerMac G4 than Firefox. It actually makes this old machine (dual 533 G4) very usable as an Internet browsing machine (Firefox feels so slow compared to my newer 5600+ PC running Firefox on XP or Linux, but Safari holds its own on the older Mac by comparison) so any further speed improvements can only help. I do agree it would be VERY nice if Safari had extensions like Firefox (I found an Adblock plugin for Safari, but that's about it. I did see a shareware plugin that makes it a lot more customizable, etc., but I refuse to pay for what I can get for free on Firefox. Freeware seems a LOT less common on Macs compard to Windows and Linux. Paying for browser extensions when there are hundreds for Firefox for FREE? I don't think so. If people want Safari to BEAT Firefox in ALL areas, they need to realize that FREE is the major selling point for Firefox + extensions. Safari is free, but most of the plugins/extensions I've seen for it are not. OTOH, if someone can convert Firefox's AdBlock for Safari, why can't more of the best extensions be converted over?
