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Safari getting TABS and AutoFill!!

Import IE Favorites?

Anyone else notice the "Import IE Favorites" in the v62 safari debug menu? Or has it been here since v60?
 
nice, to start with.

hopefully the "real" release will have be configurable. i prefer to always load new tabs in the background, as a previous poster mentioned. cmd-shift-click is too much work. ctrl-click - new tab is fine... for now.

of course if this ibook had a right and left mouse button the finger gymnastics would not be necessary! :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by BillyShears
So... you're using something that is worse now (I mean, you never mentioned it being good) because you think it will get better? You know you can always SWITCH browsers at any time, right?
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Well, yeah, I guess I do realize that.

Do *you* realize that if you used Safari now, your valuable input (via the bug button) would help steer the product?

Not to mention help give it critical mass to be respected in the website development community?
 
Re: Background loading of pages

Originally posted by jaykk
Why can't apple have an option to download pages in the background? The main reason for having tabs is that you can cmd+click on many links, and it will load in a seperate tab and u can visit them later after all pages are loaded.
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You can open pages in the background, you have to cmd-shift-click. Personally I pefer Chimera's way of doing it but atleast there is the option.
 
This is definately not more than the second build of safari since the tabs have been added. So it is only expected to be there, not to really work correctly all the time. Personally I am suprised that it works as well as it does right now. Don't expect this to get released any time soon though, there are annoying bugs in this one, probably due to the new CSS fixes that have been applied to it. Expect to not see this public till at least a v64 or higher.

Mainly I use tabs in chimera for ShareReactor. I tried it with this version of Safari with these results:
Safari now hates copying ed2k:// links to the clipboard
It still does not block ShareReactor's popups.. (although no other popups ever show up, They should check this out, cause obviously they have a tricky way of doing it, but chimera blocks them just fine)
 
they have fixed the mouse hiding issue in this build as well. now if i scroll up and down a page using the keyboard, the mouse hides itself. a small yet annoying bug before.

i am noticing some placement issues on the forums and some other sites. oh well...we have tabs ;D
 
No need for the debug menu

There is no need for the debug unless you want to turn it on and off on the fly. In the terminal type:

"defaults write com.apple.safari TabbedBrowsing 1"
 
Originally posted by timbloom
Mainly I use tabs in chimera for ShareReactor. I tried it with this version of Safari with these results:
Safari now hates copying ed2k:// links to the clipboard
It still does not block ShareReactor's popups.. (although no other popups ever show up, They should check this out, cause obviously they have a tricky way of doing it, but chimera blocks them just fine)
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The previous released version of Safari couldn't handle copying ed2k links either.

I don't know what you guys do, but cmd-click in Chimera opens a whole new window.

cmd-click for opening a link in a new tab is the way it's supposed to work. cmd-shift-click is just fine to open the link in a background tab
 
Originally posted by sparkleytone
they have fixed the mouse hiding issue in this build as well. now if i scroll up and down a page using the keyboard, the mouse hides itself. a small yet annoying bug before.
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You just made my day :) Huzzah!
 
Originally posted by cb911
sweet. tabs and auto fill are what i've been waiting for. now i might finally move over from Chimera to Safari!! :D

w00t! :D:D:D
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Is there some reason that people seem so eager to get away from Chimera? It is my main browser, and, while I like the direction Safari is going in, I fully expect to stay with Chimera/Camino for the forseeable future. I have yet to see any real motivating factor to move over to Safari...
 
I guess it's mainly just the fact that Safari is made by Apple, so people are happy to switch over to an Apple product. We know and love Apple, and you never know what great thing they're going to introduce next, so I'm guessing that's why people are so excited about switching to Safari.

--Fred
 
Originally posted by Snowy_River
Is there some reason that people seem so eager to get away from Chimera? It is my main browser, and, while I like the direction Safari is going in, I fully expect to stay with Chimera/Camino for the forseeable future. I have yet to see any real motivating factor to move over to Safari...
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well, its sort of a big deal, apple has never had a browser. plus we know how incredible apple software is so its nice to know that we mac users will finally have someone interested enough to give us a wonderful internet experience. watch how fast they get mac flash support up to speed with the windows flash support. the mac plugins have always been slower than the pc's.
 
Safari for speed reading!

An important feature of Safari - though rarely mentioned - is that it displays the text BEFORE the graphics, enabling you to begin reading earlier than you are able to in, say, Chimera or IE. iCab did the same thing, and it DOES make them faster to use. When chasing ideas or just minor details this is a VERY valuable and time-saving thing.

engpjp
 
IT'S TRUE!

yep... gr8 isn't it?
 

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Originally posted by timbloom
um... automatic logins, or fill-ins? cause mine allready will fill it in, just not auto-login for me, I still have to hit enter.
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Your Safari will auto-fill? :confused: I'm talking about Chimera here, where it will save your login info in the keychain and will auto-fill in the fields once permission has been given to the keychain.

...I'm hoping they'll implement that in Safari eventually. That's what I was referring to.
 
Originally posted by beatle888
well, its sort of a big deal, apple has never had a browser.
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Um, CyberDog?

(Which was kinda cool actually, back in the days before the Internet became fatter than an American with McDonalds vouchers.)
 
Hm...

I might have just switched from Chimera.

This is very nice...

Two small issues:
1) I'd like favicons to display in tabs
2) I'd prefer Cmd-Click to be able to open new tabs in back. It's a fair bit simpler than Shift-Cmd-Click. I am sure this will be an option by day 1 (1.0).

Regardless, this is great. I use setiathome (cl version) running in the background at all times. Whenver I checked the CPU load with Chimera running, it would take 30+% of CPU cycles when in the foreground with many tabs open. Safari doesn't go over 15% or so unless I am resizing a window. It usually stays around 1-5% (with 6 tabs open).

This is a much better browser now.

Chris
 
Re: Hm...

Originally posted by chmorley
I might have just switched from Chimera.

This is very nice...

Two small issues:
1) I'd like favicons to display in tabs
Chris
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nononononono

there is a reason they look like they do. they are as inobtrusive as possible. apple is not trying to call attention to tabs. tabs call attention to themselves enough already. they are meant to blend in with the interface.
 
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