“Safari turns 6 in this summer’s release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a new view of open tabs similar to iPad and a new iCloud tab-sharing feature, along with an offline Reading List, new website passwords browser, new privacy settings, and a feature that allows websites to send alerts to the new Notification Center,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“Safari 6 introduces a new Exposé-like tab view similar to that already available on iPad. Click the ‘Show all tabs’ button in the Tab Bar, and you can visually review what’s going on in each open tab, flicking between the scaled-down open tabs within the browser window, and clicking on any one of them to make it the current tab,” Dilger reports. “Apple has also introduced a new iCloud sharing feature that enables Mountain Lion Safari 6 users to share open tabs between systems that use iCloud. Clicking on the new iCloud icon in the Toolbar presents a popup that states ‘iCloud automatically shows all the open tabs on your other devices.'”
Much more, including many screenshots, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Can’t wait for the big cat to hit the Mac App Store!
I’m still wondering why apple killed RSS in safari when it’s still available in the mobile version.
Removing RSS from Safari makes no sense at all. Why would Apple want people to separate an inherent part of web browsing from Safari?
3rd party RSS Readers are meh. And I really don’t want to jump around apps to browse what’s going on. I have 2 folders on my Bookmarks Bar for RSS. When I see the number change I know there’s new articles available. Scan the list quickly, etc, read what I want. and I’m back to non RSS browsing.
Let me rephrase (dam that Lion spellchecking impostor and lack of MDN post editing) – Why would Apple want to exclude an inherent part of web browsing from Safari? There…now I feel better. 🙂
I think they want you to use mail. Makes no sense to me at all.
What is this guy rambling on about? I don’t see what view all open tabs in Safari for iOS means. How do you do that? I can only view one open tab at a time in Safari.
In the Safari tab bar, on the right side, next to the “+”, there’s a new control. Click on it, and see what it does.
-jcr
I’ve felt burned by Lion’s shortcomings (First OSX version I’ve regretted) and will carefully look at Mountain Lion before upgrading. The move towards iOS like functionality is very problematic (at least to me). While “dumbing” down the options (as per iOS style functionality) available to the end user can be useful, Lion has degraded into a operating system that is not meeting the needs of people requiring a more versatile OS and work flow. If I could, I would install Snow Leopard on my new Retina Display MacBook Pro.
In a vain and ultimately stupid attempt to make OS X mimic iOS, Apple has in fact made navigating through OS X much more difficult than before. Spaces was more useful than the pathetic Mission Control. Launchpad is just a total waste of time.
Versions is just another pathetic attempt to appeal to boneheads by deprecating ‘Save As’. Apple is trying to appeal to the boneheaded masses and destroying workflow efficiency in the process.
This is dumbness personified and I blame the departure of Serlet for it. The new guy Federighi is just a guy who likes to ‘show and tell’ at the keynotes without adding any useful functionality at all.
Yes I am looking forward to downloading ML, and yes it’ll be a successful release. But the list of “features” I will delete, turn off, or at the minimum do my best to ignore, keeps growing with every new release.
I kind of agree with you. I don’t think it’s just Serlet. I believe a big factor is that Steve is not there using this software on a daily basis and telling people, “THIS IS FUCKING CRAP.”
People criticized how volatile Steve could be, but I believe this volatility was more than a bit responsible for creating good user experiences.
Safari has fallen way behind other browsers for the Mac, in particular Chrome. Chrome is a great experience. It is still faster than Safari and far less buggy. I download developer builds of Chrome regularly. The current dev build gives high resolution text for MacBook Pros with Retina, by the way. I look at the apps and extensions that can be added to Chrome and Safari looks more than a bit 2010-ish.
I’m glad they’re working on Safari, but I’m also highly annoyed with the whole iTunes situation. It’s like a morass of confusion.
It needs to be drastically simplified. You start it up, and the first thing you see is a ton of crap from the store that you don’t want to see right off the bat. I want the ability to select the store, then movies, and be completely immersed in movie context, not have crap bleeding all over my search from music, books, TV, etc.
I look at it and I think “Jeeze, Apple seriously needs to hire some UI people.” Apple? UI People?
Homesharing, and AppleTV3rd gen are also buggy as hell.
I have read in more than one place that under the new regime, managers and bureaucrats and supply people are now more important than engineers. When I read that and look at how messy some of this stuff is, and add to that Serlet leaving to work on what sounds like a relatively boring startup, compared to being the guy in charge of OS X, I’m not encouraged.
Glad to hear I’m not alone. It’s about time that Mac users issue Apple the constructive criticism that it deserves when the company screws up (as all companies do).
As you all know, i’m sick and tired of MDN and many of its disciples acting as if Apple can do no wrong and will in the end rule the world. Wrong on both counts, thankfully. Apple is just a computer company that at the moment offers the best user experience. It’s reign is not assured if it stops innovating with efficiency & performance gains that users actually want.
Snow Leopard will remain on our machines until we need new hardware or until Apple actually improves upon it. The features added to OS 10.7 and 10.8 are very uninspired and clearly not taking into account the power users who want maximum efficiency without any consumer-centric ad-driven server-linked fluff.
I use Snow Leopard on my MBP. Lion is on my iMac (came installed). I much prefer Snow Leopard, especially when it comes to file saving and basic UI.
Yet if I want my Address Book to stay in synch across machines, I have to upgrade to Lion or Mountain Lion. That iCloud is not useable on Snow Leopard is a royal PIA. Whose making these genius decisions?
Me, too. I use my Mac to make a living creating content. I use over 50 applications. Most of my projects use at least 6 applications to create that content.
Many of those project folders have over a hundred separate resource files in them, and some of them come from other folders where they originated, either an application folder, or a different project folder.
Based upon a year of experience and thousands of saves, I believe that Lion just is not up to the task of cataloguing all of the version changes that occur. I don’t think Lion knows whether so save the file in its origination folder or in my new project folder. If you let Lion make those choices, at some point IT WILL put the saved content in the wrong folder. And it may cost me hours of time to recreate the changes or find the new version. Truthfully, a lot like how Windows causes you to have to maintain a separate tracking system.
Thankfully, I have two monitors. I maintain an open Finder window with the project file open at all times that I am working on that particular project. That is the only way that I can absolutely confirm that changes to files end up where I intended. I literally make a point of watching the contents of the finder window.
I have also initiated project numbers and every single file name involved in the project begins with the project number. I tried for months to avoid that.
Other things: Lets say I log off for lunch. Whether or not I specify to reopen the previous windows, files, apps when logging back in makes no difference at all. There are times when the system will open windows, websites, etc. that I have not looked at for a week.
So I no longer have absolute trust in Time Machine, or in any backup where I did not create a manual copy of a folder. Sounds like “Save As” doesn’t it.
I think Lion is A Bridge Too Far. It has been suggested that I do another clean install and start over. That would cost me the same two weeks that it took to get it all right when I moved from Snow Leopard. It would make more sense to get another new Mini, and start that process in Snow Leopard.
I don’t blame Apple necessarily, The Law of Unintended Consequences can’t be predicted. I can’t blame the developers who had to try to adapt to this new system, the same problem applies to them. If Apple can’t manage all that spaghetti code, how is a developer supposed to adapt to it.
Am I going elsewhere? No, of course not. But not going to Mountain Lion until I know how it actually works out in the wild.
LOL I live in a city that has mountain lions right on the city streets and in peoples back yards every night, especially in the spring. So forgive me if I am not thrilled about that, they are beautiful animals, but…….. I am luck not to have met one personally, but know people who have. Not fun.
I highly highly highly doubt you have a situation where an app is saving a file in a different place than you told it to.
If you really can reproduce this, write up a bug at bugreport.apple.com
Unless you tell it where to save a file, Lion may very well save files in a very different place than you expected. Especially if you are working on large projects with many apps, folders, and files involved.
Go over to the long standing discussion Re: Lion Experiences on Macintouch. Dont have time to spell it out further for you.
It only happens to users like me, not to the 90% that use the Mac like an iPhone or an iPad, not for large project production involving 100’s of files. But I already said all this.
Lame update.