Safari 4.0 changes, for better or worse?

[Robert Denby]

It's probably a .plist problem. Try trashing the .plist file and redo all of your settings, that should do it.

I'll give it a try. Thanks.

 

[Yeti60]

This is weird, I just downloaded Safari 4.0 and I still have tabs on top. I also have this homepage thing that is like a grid of my most visited sites...

Why do I have something different then everyone else seems to have?

 

[Chase R]

This is weird, I just downloaded Safari 4.0 and I still have tabs on top. I also have this homepage thing that is like a grid of my most visited sites...

Why do I have something different then everyone else seems to have?

Sounds like you still have the beta version. What does it say when you click: Safari -> About Safari in the menubar?

 

[cambo]

Where is "snapback?"

Am I the only one who misses Snapback?

And how to I get rid of the coverflow in bookmarks?

Overall Safari 4 seems to me less snappy than 3.2.3

 

[eXan]

Double click on the empty space next to the tab and a new one will appear. Alternately, right click on the buttons in your toolbar and a "Customize Toolbar" option will come up. One of the buttons that you can add is one to make a new tab.

As I said, there's only 1 tab open and the tab bar is not visible this way (unless enabled in the preferences).

A minor inconvenience, but I mostly use Cmd-T or just File -> New Tab instead of separate buttons anyway so it doesn't bother me much.

 

[Yeti60]

Sounds like you still have the beta version. What does it say when you click: Safari -> About Safari in the menubar?

It says
Safari: Version 4.0 (5530.17)

plus I used the software updater application to get it and it didn't say beta on the download.

 

[eXan]

It says
Safari: Version 4.0 (5530.17)

plus I used the software updater application to get it and it didn't say beta on the download.

Are you sure you are not confusing tabs with bookmarks? ^^

 

[Yeti60]

Are you sure you are not confusing tabs with bookmarks? ^^

Positive.

I press command + T and a new tab pops up in the top area. Plus at the far right there is a little "+" sign that opens a new tab in the same area.

If someone could teach me how to take screenshots and put them in my post, I could show you what I'm looking at.

 

[Axemantitan]

Positive.

I press command + T and a new tab pops up in the top area. Plus at the far right there is a little "+" sign that opens a new tab in the same area.

If someone could teach me how to take screenshots and put them in my post, I could show you what I'm looking at.

Command + Shift + 3 takes a screenshot of the whole screen. Command + Shift + 4 takes a shot of a field that you can designate by dragging and releasing the crosshairs that show up.

 

[Schtumple]

I've already got used to tabs at the bottom, whilst I did enjoy the novelty of tabs at the top (I see most of the original complainers are now promptly complaining that the tabs moved back down, just as they originally wanted, HYPOCRITES), it was a pain when using a trackpad (very easy to move the window instead of clicking a tab), and I've already got used to tabs down the bottom again.

For anyone who complains about tabs not being on the top, use Chrome, or whatever browser Apple stole the idea for tabs at the top from...

 

[jive turkey]

Other than formatting not working in WordPress, I think this build is solid.

 

[Yeti60]

Ok I understand how to take the sreenshots, but it puts them on my desktop. How do I put the screenshot into a post for this thread?

 

[Axemantitan]

Ok I understand how to take the sreenshots, but it puts them on my desktop. How do I put the screenshot into a post for this thread?

Click on the Manage Attachments button in the bottom half of the Reply to Topic page. Then choose the file that you want to attach.

 

[Yeti60]

Here is the top of my Safari browser.

 

[ASFx]

Overall i love Safari 4, but i'm still very surprised that we can't just make the download manager auto close once downloads are complete.

 

[LurkingIowan]

Overall i love Safari 4, but i'm still very surprised that we can't just make the download manager auto close once downloads are complete.

Try downloading glims. http://www.machangout.com/
It will close that stupid download window, put icons in your tabs, etc.

 

[ZDDP1273]

What's the deal with multi touch gestures? I can't get the 3-finger swipe down to jump to the bottom of the page like in FF. And I can't switch tabs with the twist gesture either. Anyone know if this will be done or if I'm just inept?

 

[Chase R]

Here is the top of my Safari browser.

I thought you said that the tabs were on the top? The picture you have there is the way it should be... Tabs on the BOTTOM.

 

[Chase R]

What's the deal with multi touch gestures? I can't get the 3-finger swipe down to jump to the bottom of the page like in FF. And I can't switch tabs with the twist gesture either. Anyone know if this will be done or if I'm just inept?

Download MultiClutch... amazing application. You can program in any gesture you want, as long as there is a shortcut-key for it.

Example: In TextEdit, swipe left is "Undo", swipe right is "Redo", and swipe down is "Save".

For Safari:
 swipe left/right = forward/back
 swipe up/down = switch between tabs
 rotate right = new tab
 rotate left = close tab

 

[zim]

I miss the tabs on top Didn't realize how much they had grown on me. Really dislike the new loading indicator, they need to cool that thing down

Am I the only one who misses Snapback?

You are referring to when you search for something and then are able to return back by pressing on the orange arrow? Mine still has that, not sure why you wouldn't.

 

[eXan]

Here is the top of my Safari browser.

Its tabs on the bottom. Tabs on the top look like this:

 

[Bonsai1214]

i don't mind tabs on the bottom, but if they're on top, make sure you can close a good amount of tabs without having to move the mouse. since the tabs automatically resized themselves to take up the whole bar. if you wanted to close more than 1 tab that didn't include the first tab, you'd have to move your mouse every time, which got annoying. otherwise, stop bitching about like 15 pixels worth of vertical space..

 

[cambo]

You are referring to when you search for something and then are able to return back by pressing on the orange arrow? Mine still has that, not sure why you wouldn't.

I have no orange "snapback" arrow in the address bar, the one which took you back to the first page when you entered the site (rather than going "back", "back", "back", "back", "back", "back", "back", etc., to the start).

The orange arrow and other changes in the search box I like

 

[atomicparker]

One thing I've noticed about 4 is that it seems to be painfully and unacceptably slow in gmail. Typing lag to the point of frustration. Is anyone else encountering this? This is on a mid 2008 MBP.

 

[Doju]

give me my tabs on top back. it was the only reason i was using safari.

Yeah, no other browser has this. My favorite Safari feature. Used space a lot better.

Give us the OPTION then if people complained!