“You’ve heard about one or two of them, and you may even have seen YouTube video of Safari 3.0’s tab tricks. But let me tell you, as part of m Building Leopard project, discovering Safari 3.0 has left me with an insatiable desire to work in Leopard full-time. There are three standout features that I really miss when I “degrade gracefully” to other modern web browsers on my Mac—and that includes Firefox 2.0x, Opera 9.x, and Safari 2.x as my regular web companions,” Leland Scott writes for Musings from Mars.
Scott’s three new Safari 3.0 tricks:
1. Tabs on Steroids
2. Lightbox Searching
3. TextAreas Come Alive!
Full article here.
first,
and true, can’t wait for the next cat
Steve, please release the coolness that is Leopard. I am overly excited for this.
19th post.
magic word: “wife” as in henpecked.
I just hope Apple is willing to match Microsoft’s marketing effort, lest it get drowned out by Vista hype.
Apple don’t need to match the Microsoft Vista hype since existing Mac users are gonna upgrade or not regardless. New users, if they’re considering OSX because of windows fatigue are gonna have to have Vista really sold to them to stop them moving and once Vista actually hits people will likely become more pissed off once they realise they dropped a large amount of money on it and are still stuck with shit in their house.
Most Windows users won’t upgrade to Vista, people will get Vista when they buy a new PC, and seeing as most people don’t even know what OS X is, it won’t be an option for them.
Why won’t Safari open my home page when I create a new tab? I cheked the preferences, relaunced, rebooted and it still just gives me a blank page. I use Camino now with camitools to stop pop ups and ads.
I dunno. You can already move tabs between Safari windows, so nothing really new there.
I want MUCH, MUCH better control over the tabs, such as automatic refresh on a user-specified scheduled, tabs that never refresh whether the page want to or not, saving tabs as groups, etc…..
I dunno. You can already move tabs between Safari windows, so nothing really new there.
‘Tabs’, please explain. Are you using a third party plugin? Safari in Tiger doesn’t have this feature as far as I know.
and seeing as most people don’t even know what OS X is, , it won’t be an option for them.
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If people don’t know what a Mac and OSX is by now, they must be living under a rock.. Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads have been running regularly on major networks during prime time hours for the past eight months. There have been countless articles written on the benefits of Macs and OSX in nearly every major newspaper and online publication for the past two years. Time, NewsWeek, WSJ just to name a few…
There is now at least one Apple Store in every major metropolitan shopping mall across the country with dozens of Macs on display.. These stores attract one million NEW VISITORS per week.. Apple is doing it’s part folks.. Macs are not a big secret anymore, people are learning…
Andy C. Open prefs and under tabs, check ‘enable tabbed browsing’
UK JIM is right, most computer users do not know about Macs.
dunno. You can already move tabs between Safari windows, so nothing really new there.
Andy C. Open prefs and under tabs, check ‘enable tabbed browsing’
DanDrums, you’re wrong. You can’t drag tabs among Safari windows in Tiger. You’re “advice” is simply to enable tabbed browsing, not to enable dragging Safari tabs among windows.
To move a tab between windows in Safari, grab the little icon in the address box of one window and drop into a vacant spot in the tab bar of another.
If Apple ever allows me to set a default so that clicking on a link (without holding down a modifier key!) opens that link in a new tab, I will switch to Safari. For now, it’s Firefox. Firefox also runs much faster on my Cube than Safari.
I’d use Safari instead of Firefox if Safari had some equivalent to AdBlockPlus and Filterset.G. Safari is much more nimble, but, God, all those ads.
Cubert
You,Andy C and effwerd gotta learn to RTFM.Safari already does ALL of the things you want to do…and Sooo much more.
Homer S., No it doesn’t.
To move a tab between windows in Safari, grab the little icon in the address box of one window and drop into a vacant spot in the tab bar of another.
This is not the same as grabbing a tab and moving it to another window.
Why is this kid breaking his NDA?
You cannot get Safari to open a link in a new tab by simply clicking on it – you need to hold down the command key. This is the thing I hate – mixing keyboard commands with mousing movements.
GB said, “ I’d use Safari instead of Firefox if Safari had some equivalent to AdBlockPlus and Filterset.G. Safari is much more nimble, but, God, all those ads.“
Try PithHelmet, blocks almost all the ads. Try SafariPlus to automatically control cookies. Try SafariBlock to catch the ads PithHelmet misses, like some of the content ads in MDN. Try AcidSearch to enhance safari’s built-in Google search.
Cubert: “If Apple ever allows me to set a default so that clicking on a link (without holding down a modifier key!) opens that link in a new tab, I will switch to Safari. For now, it’s Firefox. Firefox also runs much faster on my Cube than Safari.”
Middle mouse click gives you what you want.
I really dig the ability to open all pages within a bookmark folder in their own tabs.
The thing that sucks about this though, is that if you have multiple tabs active, and you select this feature, you replace all of the active tabs.
I would prefer the option of adding the new tabs to the existing set.