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syniac

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Original poster
Sep 4, 2004
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Europe
This is more of a moan than a question, because I am sure it is unchangeable.

Why does Safari (or any other browser, I think) insist on putting down a little error/inform notice saying 'the page so-and-so failed to load? I can see that perfectly well from the exclamation mark in the corner of each tab. It gets so annoying having to click the 'OK' button (well actually pressing return) each time before command-r to reload. It does it so often as well, it's not remotely funny. It would help if the 'reload' option on the tab's contextual menu wasn't almost always greyed out -- I think it does this when it hasn't even found the page, rather than deciding to give up in the middle of loading it. It also annoys me that when typing an address into a window, if Safari doesn't even find the page, it puts the address of the current page back so you have to retype it (and conversely that if going to a link accidentally (say by hitting something on the bookmarks bar) it puts that adress into the address bar so you can't tell where you actually are. Or going back or forward to a half-loaded page produces nothing).

End of rant about Safari.

Edit: Oh, and a question: If you type something like 'hello' into the address bar, does it try first http://hello.com or http://www.hello.com?
 
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