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Safari 4.0 changes, for better or worse?
- Thread starter JoeKozy
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Same here. While tabs on the top was "cool", tabs on the bottom are much easier to manage and navigate.
Apple could have made the tab bar a little thinner though...
I am having a blast with Top Sites in Safari 4! That feature really comes in handy for me. Thanks 
OHHH I thought you guys meant something completely different. That I consider as the "top"
nvm lol
I'm used to bottom tabs I guess. So I like them better, but it doesn't really matter to me.
I want the option, but Chrome actually had it first. Apple stole it from Google Chrome, so yes, other browsers do have it. Chrome will probably be available for Mac later this year.
I do still want the option in Safari.
That's why I don't use Top Sites. Safari itself, even without Top Sites, is a big RAM hog though.
Yeah i've stopped using it too. I wish you could turn it and coverflow off completely. On the flip-side it is BLAZING fast and sings nicely with my 12mbs connection
Chrome did not have it first. Nobody ever had tabs in the title bar before Safari. Chrome's tabs are above the address toolbar, not in the title bar. Chrome's option is just butt ugly and has no real purpose, unlike tabs on top. I've said my peace. Carry on...
Is it me, or am I getting several bugs from this new release?
First, there's a point where the search bar disappears unless I click in the search bar area upon making a new tab.
Second, there's a point where I'm trying to type a URL in the address bar and the result of whatever typed is backwards.
Third, there's a point where I have trouble closing an empty (topsites) tab (command+w).
Fourth common issue is the spinning beachball but I think that's normal when I'm opening at least 4 tabs at a time.
First, there's a point where the search bar disappears unless I click in the search bar area upon making a new tab.
Second, there's a point where I'm trying to type a URL in the address bar and the result of whatever typed is backwards.
Third, there's a point where I have trouble closing an empty (topsites) tab (command+w).
Fourth common issue is the spinning beachball but I think that's normal when I'm opening at least 4 tabs at a time.
Wow. That's splitting hairs just so you can pretend safari was completely innovative. Windows has a completely different "title bar". Putting tabs in it wouldn't even work. Chrome has tabs above the address bar first. Safari copied that.
It doesn't matter anyways, because they put tabs back in the bottom, a step backwards in my opinion.
It saved space.
And come on people, learn keyboard shortcuts.
I heard so many people complaining about having to go the extra inch to change tabs.
If you're mousing any distance at all, you're wasting time.
I never said they were completely innovative. And pretty much every browser and every feature of one can be traced back to Mosaic, or even earlier. So technically everybody has copied that browser in one way or another. And apparently a toolbar and a titlebar are the same thing...whatever. Personally I went back to using the beta and will continue to do so because the unsightly gray tab bar area is not pleasing to my eye.
Does Safari 4 keep crashing for any of you? Besides that, when I'm scrolling down a page, it freezes up. It's quite irritating. I'm on a 13" unibody here.
Is it on a page that has lots of animated GIFs or a really large one? Safari is absolutely horrible when it comes to animated GIFs. My old 1.4GHz windows machine handled them better...
yes, on both pc and mac, i found it to be really bad actually, i went back to firefox
