Geez, how on earth can you actually like the stupid and pretty much useless "Loading" bar, when the old blue bar was so much better looking and it actually served its purpose in informing you about the loading progress!
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Safari 4.0.2
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Geez, how on earth can you actually like the stupid and pretty much useless "Loading" bar, when the old blue bar was so much better looking and it actually served its purpose in informing you about the loading progress!
My Bluetooth preferences are now hidden after doing this update / restarting. My mouse and keyboard don't work now.
Wonderful.
UPDATE: It's telling me I don't have a Bluetooth module installed. What the hell is this??!?! I've been using my Apple BT keyboard / mouse for 2 years!!
Wonderful.
UPDATE: It's telling me I don't have a Bluetooth module installed. What the hell is this??!?! I've been using my Apple BT keyboard / mouse for 2 years!!
Everything seems to be working great for me after the update, same as before. As long as nothing is broken in the process, I'm all for updates...especially security related ones. 
I really hope this improves Safari's stability... I've had way more crashes with Safari 4 than I ever did with Safari 3
Correct, on Windows Safari is just a browser (hence no restart) on Mac OS X and iPhone OS it is a system wide framework.
Is it just my eyesight, or have the close/minimise/maximise widgets been tweaked again in Snow Leopard.
Mine is orange.
Sigh...just when Safari was good enough for me to use it (Glims and SafariBlock), they take out that cool in-URL progress bar. I still really miss it.
Does anyone have any remote reason why a loading button would be better than a progress bar? I was thinking it might up some kind of performance of the browser, but I think most people would sacrifice a microsecond of performance for the progress bar back. Besides, with a progress bar (and how human psychology works) the browser felt faster.
Meh.
Does anyone have any remote reason why a loading button would be better than a progress bar? I was thinking it might up some kind of performance of the browser, but I think most people would sacrifice a microsecond of performance for the progress bar back. Besides, with a progress bar (and how human psychology works) the browser felt faster.
Meh.
Won't Open Local Web Files with .cfm extension
Ever since 4.0.1 and now also 4.0.2, Safari won't open a local web page on my hard drive if the extension is .cfm. If I change the extension, to .htm, it will open.
Safari creates a blank page and opens a Finder window to display the local .cfm file. I then am forced to use another browser like Firefox, just to open a local file with that .cfm extension.
This used to work even up to the Safari 4.0 beta.
I previously posted this issue on the Apple Discussion site, but no answer there that works.
I sent a bug report to Apple when this problem first appeared, but it is not fixed yet.
Ever since 4.0.1 and now also 4.0.2, Safari won't open a local web page on my hard drive if the extension is .cfm. If I change the extension, to .htm, it will open.
Safari creates a blank page and opens a Finder window to display the local .cfm file. I then am forced to use another browser like Firefox, just to open a local file with that .cfm extension.
This used to work even up to the Safari 4.0 beta.
I previously posted this issue on the Apple Discussion site, but no answer there that works.
I sent a bug report to Apple when this problem first appeared, but it is not fixed yet.
@BRLawyer
"I've discovered that the crashes I was having were caused by outdated plugins or input managers . . . ."
You're right on, BRL. Every time I read these infantile "Safari is so-o-o-o-o unstable and crashy . . ." posts I know for a fact that one or more plugins are the culprits. If the people who created these cute little add-ons would simply join the ADG (Apple Developers Group)--and thereby work with the latest and greatest builds--99.99% of such erroneous reports would disappear overnight.
I've never had Safari crash on my four Macs. Not once. But, then again, I don't "do" third-party plugins/add-ons from untrained and uncertified amateur developers.
I'm just sayin' . . . .
"I've discovered that the crashes I was having were caused by outdated plugins or input managers . . . ."
You're right on, BRL. Every time I read these infantile "Safari is so-o-o-o-o unstable and crashy . . ." posts I know for a fact that one or more plugins are the culprits. If the people who created these cute little add-ons would simply join the ADG (Apple Developers Group)--and thereby work with the latest and greatest builds--99.99% of such erroneous reports would disappear overnight.
I've never had Safari crash on my four Macs. Not once. But, then again, I don't "do" third-party plugins/add-ons from untrained and uncertified amateur developers.
I'm just sayin' . . . .
my biggest issue with the loading bar is that it relocated the Stop/Refresh button. no longer is it a nice large target next to the forward/back buttons but a tiny little thing tucked into the corner of the address bar. it's annoying having to reprogram my muscle memory... yes I know there are keyboard shortcuts, and I use them. but it's nice having the other option be convenient
yeah, weird purple metallic look - i wonder if this is a hint of what snow leopard will look like .. i like the reflections with the tabs.
F5 still broken
F5 is still broken as a shortcut key (I use F5 and F6 to make text smaller & bigger). It worked in the Safari 4 Beta, but not since. F6 works fine (as do the defaults command-"+" and "-". I was really hoping this would be fixed!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2068702
F5 is still broken as a shortcut key (I use F5 and F6 to make text smaller & bigger). It worked in the Safari 4 Beta, but not since. F6 works fine (as do the defaults command-"+" and "-". I was really hoping this would be fixed!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2068702
Blue Progress Bar
Can we PLEASE get the blue progress bar back? Is there some kind of TERMINAL COMMAND you can enter to get it back?
I don't know why they'd take away something so MAC and make it look so PC now.
Half the time, I don't even know if the page is loading or refreshing because the blue bar isn't there.
Can we PLEASE get the blue progress bar back? Is there some kind of TERMINAL COMMAND you can enter to get it back?
I don't know why they'd take away something so MAC and make it look so PC now.
Half the time, I don't even know if the page is loading or refreshing because the blue bar isn't there.
So......should we expect an iPhone Safari update, too?
(or will this be part of an iPhone OS 3.xx update?)
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