Unfortunately unless you use Thunderbird or some such mail client I don't know of any that are available on both Mac and Windows (Outlook is Windows only, Mac Mail and Entourage are Mac only, etc). It would be nice, but I don't know of a solution for mail.Most people would consider the reverse to be true, i.e using the same mail client across systems is more important than having the same browser but each to their own I guess.
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Safari 3 Beta, to DL or not to DL??
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Safari Beta 3 crashes on me at least two times a day. Well, freezes is more like it (spinning beach ball). Sometimes if I let it sit for 5 minutes it starts responding but other times I'll let it sit for 15+ minutes and it just sits there at Not Responding so I have to force quit. Other then that, it's a great browser I think. I use Camino as well when Safari is pissing me off.
Radically Better. Can't live without it. Slide tabs around. Pull a Tab off a set into a single new window. Reopen all pages from last session.
Many more features you will get hooked on so fast. Download it NOW.
I don't care about tabs, what I do care about, and has been available since 10.2 is the ability to make the Google/search window any width I want, very valuable to me, so that I can easily see & type long search terms when I have a long http address inserted while doing a "site:" search. Same with reopen all pages from last session, nice, but don't really care about it.
What would be radically different and I don't think we'll see in in our lifetimes
, is a superior print preview engine like the old IE had. Makes it much easier to print out a page on any printer, and actually get what you see in the print window, at the choosen font size.I also hate, just hate FF because it doesn't allow you to see (like Camino & Safari do) the http address of a site, when looking at the history. That is very helpful in determining which page/link on a site you want to revisit. In FF, you just have the page title on display, which many times doesn't have the relevant info you need to determine if it's the one you want to click on...a huge time waster on FF that makes it utterly unuseable for me.
Most people would consider the reverse to be true, i.e using the same mail client across systems is more important than having the same browser but each to their own I guess
I only use net mail systems, nothing on my computer... odd man out I guess
I agree, I prefer Safari to all others, except when I need to print out a page...which usually happens after I discover the printer out page sucks for formatting or font size, and then I have to fire up the old IE, to quickly make adjustments (saving me lots of time and wasted printing/paper/inks etc) for something close to what I can read well at a proper formatted size. I'd much rather be able to use the same browser on all systems...mail...meh, I don't care so much.
I'll wait for Leopard, since the final shipping (or perhaps even later update) of Safari 3, should be the most website friendly, given all the non-standardized coding crap the IE exerts on the net with their near monopoly of browsers. Yeah, lots of problems with Windows Sarfari could probably be traced to IE, and the need to try to work well with all the sites coded for IExploder.
Yeah, that would be great, especially to get switchers to stay on the Mac side
. However, most browsers don't do such a great job at importing other browsers favorites/bookmarks, we can only hope. Seeing how many people on the Windows side were b****in like crazy about how badly Apple did/continues to do iTunes, Quicktime, etc for Windows; I wouldn't get my hopes too high.
I installed 3 a few weeks ago when Safari two stopped launching for me (from all my accounts). After I installed 3 it worked fine. Unfortunately I gave up Acid Search, which is why I had gone back to 2 back when 3 first came out as I had tried it at that time. Considering it is working for me I would have to say that it is more stable then 2.
Haven't really noticed any changes till I tried to search a web page earlier today and the dialog box I was expecting did not come up. I do like the new search field and effect.
Just wish acid search worked
Haven't really noticed any changes till I tried to search a web page earlier today and the dialog box I was expecting did not come up. I do like the new search field and effect.
Just wish acid search worked
