EELEE today announced the release of SafariTabs 1.0, its shareware utility to allow Safari users to supposedly create and use tabs with Apple’s Safari Web browser. It does this by placing a bulky transparent launcher in top corner of the desktop, under the MacOS X menu bar. This allows users to open Safari windows in grouped bookmarks in SafariTabs, but it is not the same as tabs in browsers like Chimera and seems not very useful to us, especially regarding the tradeoff in screen space lost with this hamfisted effort. We cannot recommend downloading this shareware, much less paying for it. The website is here.
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Thanks for telling the truth – I donloaded it and you are 100% correct in your article. I quickly deleted it.
I went to the site and read the description of SafariTabs. Nowhere do the authors claim that the software provides “tabbed” browsing like Mozilla. Perhaps you had unwarranted expectations based on the name alone. I haven’t tried it, so I have no opinion of its usefulness, but you should at least judge the software on its intended use, not your own wishful thinking.
Multiple window/URL manipulations with Safari are very simple with AppleScript, of course.
“Nowhere do the authors claim that the software provides “tabbed” browsing like Mozilla”
The name “tabs” was obviously used so users would in fact, associate it w/ what we’ve come to know as tabbed browsing. “Nowhere” ? – try the title of the software.
“The name “tabs” was obviously used so users would in fact, associate it w/ what we’ve come to know as tabbed browsing. “Nowhere” ? – try the title of the software.”
I didn’t say the name of the software isn’t misleading, but then:
Don’t buy the iMic. It isn’t a microphone.
Don’t buy KnockOut. It isn’t a boxing game.
Don’t buy a Macintosh. It’s not even fruit!
-Dennis