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Safari 4 Tops 11 Million Downloads in First Three Days
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No. I knew that I had just opened a tab with an embedded video, so I tried it again after relaunching Safari, but had no trouble. I'm waiting to see if it happens to me again or to anyone else, because it was a mighty strange experience. If it never happens again, then I'll conclude that I simply imagined it.
11 million downloads... I've downloaded it four times. Can't get it to work. I tried redownloading hoping that perhaps there was something wrong with the download. No go. Safari 4.0 is a bomb. That is to say it bombs immediately on opening. I've reverted to Safari 3.2.3 which is very stable.
It's much easier to change search providers in Internet Explorer 8 and the accelerators are quite useful.woo, who's excited for Internet Explorer 8.. huh... anyone?
I meant preferences in safari, there is not preferences in windows.
Little gear icon-> Preferences-> (under general, the default pane thats open) change default search engine
Does it NEED to be any simpler than that?
I can understand how you missed my point. Try picking something that isn't Yahoo! or Google in Safari.
I can do it in FireFox and Internet Explorer 7/8. Why can't I do it in Safari too?And how many people WANT to do that?
Yes, that sure is a disadvantage. Yet, you can add the search of the website you want as a bookmark, or the old good "x site:y.com"
BTW: Still Internet Explorer sucks. Really. Sucks badly.
IE 8 is decent. chrome is interesting. Safari on windows is not that great. check out the followings:
lightweight, superfast - http://www.browzar.com/index.html
full featured - http://opera.com
lightweight, superfast - http://www.browzar.com/index.html
full featured - http://opera.com
Well, if you look at things in a more reasonable way, Safari is actually doing worse than IE8. It's all a matter of perspective.woo, who's excited for Internet Explorer 8.. huh... anyone?
Nope, took me ages to get used to it after FireFox and then I decided I loved it. Now they've moved it back down, bugger.
Of course I didn't realise until I had updated on my MacPro, I assumed then it would be parameter driven, but no
So on my MBP I'm sticking to the beta
You're probably right, but to be fair I would take a totally non-customizable OS X over any version of Windows any day
But look at Google Chrome:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Chrome_Mac_Dev_Build_3.0.182.5.png
You can click near the top to minimize and you can still double click to make a new tab.
Has anyone figured out how to get tabs on top back on Windows?
I wonder ...
.. if they also mentioned, that they slipped it into the auto-update Mac feature along with the usual routine updates as if it were just a regular Safari security update - and that if you don't happen to like the in-your-face-constantly look of it, which many do not, tough, because they have made it impossible to uninstall other than via re-installing the whole operating system, and impossible to disable the features you don't like.... You remember those things that we hated about Microsoft and Windows? Apple's policies are changing. Lets hope it doesnt go too far, or like Windows users, we may be led to be convinced that user-unfriendliness, regular crashes, error messages only interpretable by technicians, and total corporate insulation from the customer are all ok, and just "to be expected - it's a computer" ;0) Guess how I got my name. (Previously solely a Safari user for over 10 years)
.. if they also mentioned, that they slipped it into the auto-update Mac feature along with the usual routine updates as if it were just a regular Safari security update - and that if you don't happen to like the in-your-face-constantly look of it, which many do not, tough, because they have made it impossible to uninstall other than via re-installing the whole operating system, and impossible to disable the features you don't like.... You remember those things that we hated about Microsoft and Windows? Apple's policies are changing. Lets hope it doesnt go too far, or like Windows users, we may be led to be convinced that user-unfriendliness, regular crashes, error messages only interpretable by technicians, and total corporate insulation from the customer are all ok, and just "to be expected - it's a computer" ;0) Guess how I got my name. (Previously solely a Safari user for over 10 years)
Wow... considering, that the public beta of Mac OS X started in September 2000 and Safari was never available for MacOS 9... And the first beta of Safari was available in January 2003...
Safari 2 was available in April 2005. That was the first version that was actually really usable. So if you were using Safari solely, then you can't have ment the vesrions before that one...
That makes a maximum of 4 years!
The Auto-Update thing was resolved again by Apple after crticism in late 2008. Other than that I wonder how you got the idea that you can not uninstall Safari? Just put it in the trash can.
Enough said... right?
groovebuster
P.S.: Since this was your first post after just signing up yesterday, I should have saved the time to reply. I just wonder what the motivation for people like you is to spread this kind of FUD? Maybe a pay-check by MS? At least it is obvious that you are not a the Mac connoisseur your are pretending to be.
I'm still sticking with Camino - it had a few little quirks that drove me back to Safari earlier this year, but ever since I've been running the Camion 2.0 beta, I'm completely happy!