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Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
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I tried that and it didn't make any difference to the top sites?
Grr the lack of the blue progress bar annoys me, I keep thinking I've missed links!!
I got this tip from someone who very kindly posted it in the other Safari thread:
- Open a new Safari window (not tab) and place it next to the window you have open with the Top Sites page open.
- Click "edit" on the Top Sites page
- In the other window, visit each page in turn that you want to have as a Top Site. Drag its favicon from the address bar onto one of the Top Sites slots.
- Once you've got them all transferred across, pin them into place with the pushpin icon. Click edit again to return to normal.
Well, you need to be able to drag the Safari window(s) around more than you need to swap around tabs. Dragging the center of the tabs moves the window. You just need to avoid those buttons on the tabs which feels a little awkward at first. But I guess Exposé and Spaces ought to be used to minimize window clutter anyway, so you don't need to drag around windows that much.
It's a bold design decision and I'd love to see this implemented in the Finder and other apps where every pixel is precious. I don't really like tabs because you can't see all the things at once so I appreciate Safari's feature to undock a tab and make it into a window.
safari 4
i am NOT switching to safari 4 unless... i can use the glims add-on with the browser because safari seriously needs the addon features that glims provides... and i would have to change the position of the tabs, although that has already been accomplished... but, apple has said that safari 4 beat crashes with glims users, so i will have to wait.
i am NOT switching to safari 4 unless... i can use the glims add-on with the browser because safari seriously needs the addon features that glims provides... and i would have to change the position of the tabs, although that has already been accomplished... but, apple has said that safari 4 beat crashes with glims users, so i will have to wait.
If you copy the command into the Terminal, you need to copy only the part from the word default on, otherwise it won't work, because the BASH command prompt (with the $ ) is already there.
I don't like being told I'm wrong when I'm absolutely correct.
jW
If you copy the command into the Terminal, you need to copy only the part from the word default on, otherwise it won't work, because the BASH command prompt (with the $ ) is already there.
I don't like being told I'm wrong when I'm absolutely correct.
jW
Maybe he was correcting the reason $ is there? I've no idea personally, but you are definitely right, as I could not get it to work until I removed the $.
I don't understand why everyone is waving with benchmarks. ...
The only reason I provided the link was...
that macrumors on the front page is touting the benchmark from CNet showing that Safari 4 is faster than all, but I don't think it is a fair comparison because if you are comparing the newest Safari than you should also use the newest Firefox.
And the link I provided showed the other CNet test which used Firefox 3.1b2 against Safari 4 beta. And Firefox was still faster.
Anyone else find the full page zoom a little sluggish? I was hoping for something along the lines of iphone/ipod
Same here, but it's fixable. Turns out it was a Mail plugin (GrowlMail) that I'd installed a while back.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2486 for details and removal instructions.
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It's super fast over here. Would be much better if Apple implemented some sort of full screen mode to accompany it though imo.
Just changed the way tab bars look in Safari 4. I made it the way it looked before, and now I am absolutely happy with the new release.
I don't know if it has been mentioned before, but there is a way to revert to the old look...
I don't know if it has been mentioned before, but there is a way to revert to the old look...
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003[1] on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3, commonly known as "OS X Panther." Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS.
On June 11, 2007, a version of Safari was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system,[2] supporting both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Safari has a 8.29% market share as of January 2009.[3]
I just checked Currency converter and noticed a bug that I've seen before. Firstly, it reset my currency units (no real biggie). But the interesting thing is that it now sees $100 as £1.955 UK. Either that's a bug or now is a really good time to buy from the US......
Don't have album art, but the currency converter isn't work for me. I'm getting 100¥ equals $37.
jW
And I'll confirm that if you uninstall, you go back to Safari 3. As far as I can tell, I didn't lose anything in the transition back and forth -- was even able to restore all windows from the sessions.
There is already a thread under Apple Support about this...somehow, Safari 4 broke the widget...Album Art is also unstable...I can confirm it is Safari 4's problem.
I miss the orange snapback curly arrow (replaced with a refresh icon).
Snapback still works from Google search results, but it seems like we've lost the ability to mark our own choice of pages for snapback, which is definitely a bummer. I don't understand why they would have dropped support for this (assuming it's not just missing from the beta for some reason).
I wonder which OS was used when these benchmarks are generated.
I wouldn't be surprised if Safari works really fast on OSX, FireFox works really fast on Linux, and Internet Explorer works fast on Windows.
Are these benchmarks tested on every OS available to see if they all work the same way? Hm....
The release of the Safari 4 Beta yesterday has generated a massive number of comments. Here are a few interesting tips, tricks and observations.
CNet benchmarked Safari 4's Javascript and found it to be 42x faster than IE 7, 6x faster than IE 8 and the fastest compared to any browser:
Javascript is a key scripting language that is heavily used in interactive websites such as GMail and MobileMe.
We previously discussed the inclusion of CSS Animation into Webkit and its long term implications. Well, the latest Safari 4 beta incorporates these new features which allows you to view these impressive demos that use CSS/Javascript:
CSS Animation: Falling Leaves, Bouncing Box, Pulse
3D with Canvas: JS Cloth, Miku, Touch (via Kawanet and Ajaxian)
Presentations: Sample slideshow (use right/left arrows to advance)
Finally, those who are still trying to get used to the new Safari 4 changes might want to follow these tips:
Safari 4 Hidden Preferences - how to move the tabs back to the bottom, restore the blue loading bar, turn off URL autocompletion, Google Suggest and more. (Original site is down - content copied here.)
1Password - How to get it to work in Safari 4
Article Link: Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
I wouldn't be surprised if Safari works really fast on OSX, FireFox works really fast on Linux, and Internet Explorer works fast on Windows.
Are these benchmarks tested on every OS available to see if they all work the same way? Hm....
