“Do you frequently use mouse or trackpad actions to open links in new Safari tabs or windows in OS X? If so, you may feel like you’re losing your mind after upgrading to OS X Mavericks,” TekRevue reports. “After exploring the Developer Preview of Apple’s next major version of the OS X operating system, we encountered one of the most frustrating changes: repositioned actions in Safari’s right-click menu.”
“In OS X, users who right-click (or secondary-click if using a trackpad) on a link in Safari are given the choice to open the link in a new window or a new tab,” TekRevue reports. “In Mountain Lion, ‘New Window’ was the first listed choice. In Mavericks, ‘New Tab’ tops the list.”
TekRevue reports, “Thankfully for those who prefer keyboard shortcuts, nothing has changed.”
Read more in the full article here.
If that’s the most frustrating thing, I think I’ll sleep easy.
no kidding – I was getting ready for some sort of control click drop down change!!! Whew!
I think Im losing the will to live.
Is that fly shit in the pepper?
BooHoo…
I always open in a new tab. So for me it’s a foot thing. Also little changes keep you on your toes.
I prefer new tab on the top of the list so I am happy for the change.
New tab for life! Although I usually just Command+Click a link or ten, then go through them in a nice orderly fashion.
I think this guy needs to discover why tabs are so cool.
That is so lame!! I think someone had a deadline for an article and couldn’t come up with anything else!
Say it ain’t so! 😎
‘The August Effect’ in journalism is now ‘The Year Round Effect’. This past year has easily demonstrated the laziest tech journalism I’ve ever read.
To the next generation of tech journalists: You haven’t got much to overthrow and conquer. Just please, don’t emulate the tech bozos you’re kicking to the curb. The key word is ‘quality’. The current tech bozos forgot the meaning of the word. 😯
Really? That is nitpicky
Oh thank god…I was so FRUSTRATED by ‘New Window’ being first in the list before. Now I can find peace at last because ‘New Tab’ will be right where I need it! 😊
THAT’S your big complaint?!? A menu item re-order of two whole items?!? And a re-order that put the most-used item on top of the list, so that when you right-click your pointer is right next to the most used item?
Some people just can’t handle change.
I can’t say I’m surprised after the blistering attacks the other day over girly colours and bubbles.
Don’t discount “muscle memory” as a big factor.
That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if “New tab” was chosen far more often than “New window,” and therefore got the top spot by virtue of motion reduction. People will adapt. Or they won’t.
In this specific case (swapping new tab/new window items in context menu) it’s a very poor habit to have picked up.
Right-click > click option is two actions… 3 if you include the small mouse motion needed even for the first menu item.
vs.
middle mouse button OR command-click on link (and you could change whether this opened in new tab or window in Safari’s preferences).
The author probably fancies himself a power user because he uses right-click, but he isn’t much of one if he doesn’t know he’s doing 2.5x more work than he needs to.
command click the link, duh
We all need to remember that all of these “journalists” look to find something to write about. They probably have quotas, so most of these idiotic articles referenced by MDN are just filler articles. “What can I write about the Mac OS? Oh, I know……”
Some people simply can’t help but whine routinely about nothing of consequence.
…on a side note, who moved my cheese?
I think it would be best to wait for release until making such assertions. Anyone with a copy at the moment is under an NDA, and the OS behaviour may be different in the final product.
Omg. Mavericks. No cat now? Darn it. Very frustrating…
Huh? This article is not worth the disk space that it’s taking up. Things change, s*it happens, move on.
Most unnecessary article of the year? I think so.
Most frustrating is the new name. I know that California is important and California alone would rank top 10 in term of economical strength worldwide. But from the European point if view (yeah, Europe still exists), it is a little too much. I thought Sea Lion was a funny name, I liked the sea lion a lot. 🙂
But anyway, it will be a great release. As a pro user I can say that the new features are very very welcome. I tested the prerelease version I would love working in our daily production with it. Apple did a great job, hopefully the tech press one day will realiste how capable OSX is compared to Windows.
It’s a name, and a relatively obscure one globally, why is that even more frustrating than swapping open window/tab menu positions? It’s not like it’s OSX Washington or OSX Lincoln.
From here on the usanian east coast mavericks is either something you listen to – The Mavericks- or something you don’t- Sarah Palin. Surf culture ain’t where it’s at. So- not groovy.
I wonder how it would have played if Apple had picked European capitals, or countries. Plausible? I think not. Why wouldn’t they give a shout out to their home state? This is something that is frustrating you? I’m certain, based on the rest of your post, that you say this tongue in cheek.
Yes, there was a little irony in it. But honestly a logo with a face in it looks much more interesting than just a wave. That’s simple, because we are human. So may be dogs would have been a better idea. But in the end only the code counts, and that is stable, useful, and top of all OSes. I like it a lot, really. If you have a developer account, try it out for yourself, you simply don’t want to go back to ML, Lion or even SL.
Since 99% of the time I open a new tab, this is better for me. Take some getting used to, but worth it. I can do the whole thing in one move, without letting go of the button.
Oh noes!
They have re-ordered the items in Safari’s context menu!!!!!???
B-b-but it used to be “new window” at the top, Im totally bewildered, how will I ever adjust.
The mind reels.
I prefer New Tab over New Window. It works best in my workflow because multiple windows lead to clutter and wasting time dragging or cycling through windows to find the right one. Adjusting to the tab/window option may not be a deal breaker anyway, since there’s so much more to learn and do in Mavericks… Nevertheless, each user finds what works best for them. FWIW, I smell click bait. What better way to draw eyes to a post than to stir up controversy? They succeeded.
I smell click bait
Now all I can think of is Lynyrd Skynrd’s That Smell when I look at the article. Somehow it’s so fitting… 😆
B F D. That’s the story? A non-event.
Pathetic. Of course this is a positive change… Unless you just haven’t moved into the tabs era yet.
I switch between browsers all-day. On the Mac I use Safari and Firefox about 45% of the time each, and Chrome about 10%. On the PC, I use Firefox, Chrome and IE all about the same.
I 3-finger click to get the option menu and open links in new windows and new tabs depending on what I want. At any given moment, I’ve got tons of windows and tons of tabs open. I’m *really* bad about this.
I didn’t notice until reading this article that Safari has had New Tab and New Window in opposite order from every other browser.
So uhm, ya, I’ve been switching back and forth on the order dozens of times a day for years now and never even noticed.
If this is the most frustrating thing… All I can say is Whoo-hooo!!!
And after this revelation the stock didn’t crash?
Well, that’s the way Chrome has it set up contextually. YA talking point for those what say Apple copies others, I’m afraid.
So now it’s just like Firefox, Chrome, Camino, IE, Maxthon, Torch, etc…