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Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects

Anyone else noticed that they have fiddled with the QuickTime player plug-in for safari. It no longer has an independent volume control but just the option to mute. also you can no longer choice to download the movie from the player itself however you can choice to open it directly in quicktime player of the hyperlink that links to it. It also auto hides the control bar when the mouse is not over the video.
 
Has anyone figured out how to open a bookmarks window of sorts instead of the bookmarks bar up top?
 
telecomm said:
Wow, falling leaves shows as using upwards of 90% of a processor (this is on a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo). Hope the people reading that lawn care ad have new computers! ;)
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On a Mac Pro it hardly registers. I have about ten apps running and total CPU usage is 10% of which one thing is Safari 4 running every demo including leaves.
 
I really need that blue status bar and the stupid link posted on the fp for the 'tips and tricks' isnt working.... ?? <scratch head> dunno why??

Please any help regarding how to re-enable the feature would be appreciated

Thanks!!
 
Digitalclips said:
On a Mac Pro it hardly registers. I have about ten apps running and total CPU usage is 10% of which one thing is Safari 4 running every demo including leaves.
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you're sure there isn't a spare processor in your 8 cores that you missed;)

seriously, sometimes simple tasks take up all CPU power on some macs and i can't make any sense of it.
 
John.B said:
Killing mail.app was not cool. Even if Growl is the problem, does nobody on their dev team use that combination? Still, easily solvable, though removing Growl reduces the functionality that specifically I bought a Mac to get.
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You do realize that Safari 4 Beta came out yesterday and introduced these issues, and that it can take far longer to release a fix for a program like that? You're being very unreasonable in insisting that a hack never cause problems.

What really kills Safari 4 for me is the same thing missing in prior versions: I need the same functionality I get with FF3 using Adblock Plus with the Element Hiding Helper, plus Flashblock. I don't care if Apple puts those in natively or if they do it with Plug Ins, but I need those tools to take back the web and make it usable. Frankly I need this for Safari for the iPhone as well (though Apple has done a nice job of keeping Flash off that platform, for which I'm eternal grateful!)
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Eh, plug-ins can stay in Firefox. If you want that functionality, Safari is not for you. It's like the difference between a Linux box and a Mac. You can customize the Linux box almost infinitely, but it comes at a price: you have to know more, it is potentially less stable, and it's not ready to go right out of the box. The Mac just works, but it may not do everything exactly like you expect.

jW
 
Digitalclips said:
On a Mac Pro it hardly registers. I have about ten apps running and total CPU usage is 10% of which one thing is Safari 4 running every demo including leaves.
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I'm guessing it has something to do with whether or not you have a graphics card or integrated? When I went home from school a couple weeks ago and realized that the iTunes visualizer on our iMac ran perfectly smooth on 1 GB of RAM in Tiger while on my MacBook it stutters and kicks the fan on almost immediately with 2 GB in Leopard, I concluded that the reason for the poor performance was integrated graphics. Then again, I could be wrong, I don't know that much about it.
 
Are there commands or a way to do all these tricks for the Windows version.
 
Apple Ink said:
I really need that blue status bar and the stupid link posted on the fp for the 'tips and tricks' isnt working.... ?? <scratch head> dunno why??

Please any help regarding how to re-enable the feature would be appreciated

Thanks!!
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I sorely miss it too. I keep finding myself clicking a link, not seeing the blue progress bar and thinking the click missed or didn't register or something, so I click another time or two before I remember there is no blue status bar anymore...

It's not just a matter of getting used to something different either. It was just better, no matter how you look at it. I'm not ready to jump into the terminal to mess with stuff, I'm just hoping they bring it back in the final release.
 
I like how this is only a beta! Apple's betas run better than a lot of RC's I've used. *caugh*vista RCx*caugh* :D

On the note of suggestions, blue loading thing in the address bar is missing, but I feel like it's a bug.

This is off of the Safari 4 Features list
Inline Progress Indicator
Safari was the first browser to move the progress indicator into the address field, making it more visible and freeing up space for web content. At a glance, you can see exactly when a site is finished loading.
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Link here: http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#interface

Look to the right
 
devburke said:
I sorely miss it too. I keep finding myself clicking a link, not seeing the blue progress bar and thinking the click missed or didn't register or something, so I click another time or two before I remember there is no blue status bar anymore...

It's not just a matter of getting used to something different either. It was just better, no matter how you look at it. I'm not ready to jump into the terminal to mess with stuff, I'm just hoping they bring it back in the final release.
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If you put the tabs back where they belong, the feature you are referring to will be back. Restart safari after the change at the command line....
 
Spades said:
The performance of those 3D demos isn't very good. Is that software rendering or is it supposed to be accelerated? Miku was especially chunky. (I mean the FPS, not Miku herself)
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Since when is javascript something that can be accelerated by a gpu? ;)
 
What are the odds that Apple DOESN'T have these options in Snow Leopard?

I assume a lot of these things are adjustable because the underlying Safari3 elements are still in the system, and turning these options to 'false' simply default back to them - but if they aren't in there AT ALL, maybe we wont get them.

It's interesting because web browsing is obviously carried out VERY differently by different users. People use history, tabs, multiple windows downloads in very different ways. Out of all applications web browsers are the ones that should probably need more customisation options.
 
ViViDboarder said:
I like how this is only a beta! Apple's betas run better than a lot of RC's I've used. *caugh*vista RCx*caugh* :D

On the note of suggestions, blue loading thing in the address bar is missing, but I feel like it's a bug.

This is off of the Safari 4 Features list

Link here: http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#interface

Look to the right
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Nice! Although it's weird that that's listed as a new feature...

If you put the tabs back where they belong, the feature you are referring to will be back. Restart safari after the change at the command line....
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I don't wanna mess with the tabs in Terminal either. Usually I just avoid Terminal customizations, since I'm not really comfortable with it. As for the tabs, I almost never use em anyway (Exposé FTW!) so I don't have a strong preference.
 
Mal said:
You do realize that Safari 4 Beta came out yesterday and introduced these issues, and that it can take far longer to release a fix for a program like that? You're being very unreasonable in insisting that a hack never cause problems.
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I completely understand that there will be inconsistencies between applications in a beta. I'm just shocked that, in the case of Growl and Mail, that they didn't uncover this problem. You aren't going to find all the problems pre-beta, but Growl + Mail have to be one of the most ubiquitous combinations on Macs today.

Mal said:
Eh, plug-ins can stay in Firefox. If you want that functionality, Safari is not for you. It's like the difference between a Linux box and a Mac. You can customize the Linux box almost infinitely, but it comes at a price: you have to know more, it is potentially less stable, and it's not ready to go right out of the box. The Mac just works, but it may not do everything exactly like you expect.
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I don't care if they do it with add ins or not. I care that I'm not bombarded with craptacular web ads (i.e. dancing silhouettes advertising toxic mortgages and the like). The implementation isn't important, its the results.

FWIW, I think I know the difference between Linux and Mac OS (and Windows and Mac OS, and Solaris and Mac OS, and VMS and Mac OS, and...)
 
Eidorian said:
Glad to have my tabs back down where they should be.
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Wimp :p

I give any change like this 3 days to impress me. Sometimes I like changes, sometimes I don't and will find a way to go back.

But I ALWAYS give myself the chance to make the choice. You really can't make that choice after just 1 day.
 
ldmbouge said:
If you put the tabs back where they belong, the feature you are referring to will be back. Restart safari after the change at the command line....
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How? Tabs don't restore the progress bar. I was getting into the situation where I'd click a tab and it wouldn't switch and click again and then my window would minimize!!! I had the double click to minimize windows on but I turned that off. Haha. I never used it on purpose before and don't plan on it.
 
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