Browserphilia!
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 09:33PM
Does Safari make your soldier salute? Does Camino put the starch in
your shorts, or do you prefer the petit piquancy of OmniWeb's studded rubber
nubs?
Or do you saving a (very) personal space on your Dock for the Mac version
of Opera? Hmmmmmmm?
Cloudscout
– February 24, 2009 07:40PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
There's no Search History checkbox. Just "Clear History".
Even so, I think it's dumb that I should be forced to go through menus and checkboxes to accomplish something that I used to be able to do with two clicks.
rino
– February 25, 2009 03:04AM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
Just to clarify: A solid windows browser on windows? B/c I've always felt it was solid on the Mac, but agreed with the old Windows version...
Isn't it interesting that you get a sort of startup chime first run?! WebOS... hah.
El Jeffe
– February 25, 2009 07:17AM
What a journey.
Cloudscout
– February 25, 2009 08:52AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Maybe it's just me, but it seems faster on Windows than on the Mac.
Jeff Cooper
– February 25, 2009 10:23AM
I saw that about OmniWeb, Bill. I've used OmniWeb on and off for years--even paid for licenses. But it's always had glitches, even in the Webkit version, that made it problematic for anything but dabbling. And it wasn't getting better--indeed, if anything, 5.8 seemed a step in the wrong direction.
I note that the Omni Group press release states that OmniWeb (like three other newly free Omni products) is no longer under active development. Understandable, given the competition--what small company with limited resources wants to take on Apple and Google. But too bad. OmniWeb was always promising, but never lived up to its promise.
Cloudscout
– February 26, 2009 06:55AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
One of my favorite Safari features is gone in Safari 4.
I liked the ability to CMD+Click on the title bar and getting the popup menu that lets me go up to any given directory level above the current page.
ddt
– February 26, 2009 07:44AM
hope you guys are emailing in all these bug reports and suggestions!
ddt
bahamut
– February 28, 2009 05:13PM
John Willoughby
– March 26, 2009 10:00AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Kind of cool thing in the Safari 4 beta: if your browser window is some kind of non-standard size (like if you've made it a narrow bar to fit beneath another window on your screen), then the windows shown on the Top Sites tab take on the same shape.
Cloudscout
– April 06, 2009 06:40AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Two problems I'm having with Safari 4:
1) I had to change my password last week. After that, I could no longer browse web sites. Turns out Safari uses the system-wide proxy settings on Windows (the same settings IE uses) except Safari doesn't support NTLM authentication. It prompts you for a username and password. This works fine until you change your password... Safari isn't smart enough to prompt you again. You have to go and delete the keychain file and then it will prompt you again.
2) If you visit a site by clicking on a bookmark, it uses the name of that bookmark for the text in the title bar rather than switching to the actual title for the web page. This is particularly annoying here on Spork since I typically rely on the title bar to tell me which forum I'm reading (otherwise I have to scroll to the bottom or top of the page to figure it out).
John Willoughby
– April 06, 2009 07:30AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
The first was an issue with Safari 3 on Windows as well. (And MobileMe on Windows can't cope with a proxy server at all!) I'm not seeing the second issue, but I'll watch for it.
tliet
– April 06, 2009 07:37AM
Apple could really do with a domain inside the development team as these NTLM issues keep cropping up.
John Willoughby
– May 19, 2009 11:04AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I just noticed that the Safari 4 beta on Windows allows me to add a stop/refresh button to my toolbar. The beta won't let me do that on the Mac, making me use that stupid pseudo-button to the right of the address field instead. Bastards.
ddt
– May 28, 2009 06:00AM
anybody trying the daily builds of
chrome for mac?
ddt
rino
– May 28, 2009 06:16AM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
I am now ... but really don't have much interest. I like Safari 4 a lot, even if it does start soaking up resources now and then (but I do leave many windows/tabs open. Tends to be flash ad heavy sites like techcrunch or huffingtonpost that make safari4 crawl on my laptop.
ddt
– May 28, 2009 06:32AM
does running a flash blocker take care of that?
stan adams
– May 28, 2009 06:41AM
I wonder if anyone has stats on percentage of folks that run flashblockers? While I don't imagine Adobe would be happy with the numbers if they are anything over about 5%, I would think that MSFT would dearly love to have tool to convince people of the superiority of their 'solutions'. Sadly I do think that Apple has any real dedicated effort to counter the tide of Flash...
tomierna
(Admin)
– May 28, 2009 09:16AM
Hideously Unnatural
I'm running one as of a couple of days ago - it's "Click to Flash"
John Willoughby
– May 28, 2009 09:32AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I'm running Flash 8 on Windows, because anything more recent freezes Safari and Firefox. I have no idea why.
