Comments on: Safari 4 Beta Preview: A New Compass

By: car insurance for high risk drivers

car insurance for high risk drivers — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:51:16 +0000

Safari 4 is really good browiser! I like to using it, in my option firefox dominate browisers. I am using firefox since 2008 and work perfect. Safari 4 is my 2nd browiser (don’t ask where I using it, lol).

By: nnoidone

nnoidone — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:02:02 +0000

1 thing I noticed is that Safari 4 beta doesn’t allow me to use Hotmail…clicking on any of the mail icons has no result, so have to use Firefox to access hotmail on the web. I think this was a problem with the beta version os Safari 3, too, but was corrected for final release.

By: Kenny Brett

Kenny Brett — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:05:54 +0000

I found an article about getting returning Safari 4 beta tabs back to normal, but I can’t remember what I type into the url to get into the code? Help!

Thanks,
Kenny

By: Eldon

Eldon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:28:27 +0000

I just got around to testing it now on one of my XP boxes. I’m actually using it at this moment. The interface has improved over Safari 3 and this is definitely the fastest browser out there. It actually feels more like Chrome to me than Safari, which, in my book, is a good thing.

Having said that, it’s clear to me that Safari will never end up as my primary or secondary browser. That’s because the same stupid tab issue that made me dislike Safari 3 is still there. I close tabs by using the scroll wheel button. Using that method, i only need to click anywhere on the tab and it closes, and i can close tabs at a rate of up to 4 per second. I stopped hunting down those tiny x’s years ago and I’m not about to start that again. ALL the other browsers, including Safari’s Webkit cousin Chrome, allow me to make use of the scroll wheel button to close tabs, so what’s with Safari?

There isn’t anything that’s really new about this browser…. the features being promoted as new are just new to Safari. Ultimately, there’s no way that these browser features can ever substitute for the rich working environment that FF enables through its add-ons.

By: Tibor

Tibor — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:28:59 +0000

If you (like me) happen to not like the new tabs, you can revert to the old tabs with a simple terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

To reverse this command, re-enter it with “YES” at the end instead of “NO”.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:42:05 +0000

You can drag tabs from window to window in safari 3.

By: Peter Craddock

Peter Craddock — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:57:30 +0000

@Douglas: it was compatible since the 25th, through a beta upgrade. Now, there's an official upgrade. Works flawlessly.

By: Douglas Ficek

Douglas Ficek — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:07:37 +0000

1Password is not compatible with it yet (not surprisingly), so I am going to wait.

By: no

no — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:53:30 +0000

So Safari 4 is just a few treats that Firefox has been doing for ages? I think I’ll stick to firefox, thanks. Not to mention, all the great extensions for firefox are free. And actually work. And the browser doesn’t feel like it’s clunky and outdated. I wanted to use Safari. I wanted to love Safari. It just made me feel like I had two-by-fours strapped to my arms and legs while trying to write my name.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:18:30 +0000

Yeah, dragging tabs has been around for a while. Glad you found it! It’s a great feature. But what’s different in version 4 is that you can now drag a tab from one window to another. Pretty slick. Haha.

I kind of like the tabs, even though I have to get used to the slight change in clicking behavior (drag only on the corners). Everything else is fine, in terms of tabs, plus, as I said, they added a feature.

What I DON’T like about version 4 is the progress indicator. I think it’s completely stupid to get rid of the progress indicator. If they made all the other changes to the location bar (moved the refresh button, added the fraud protection notifier, showed a whirly progress wheel), that would be fine, BUT they should keep the IN-LINE progress bar. That’s my only real complaint about version 4, so far, besides the fact that it cripples my GrowlMail, for now. LOL.

By: Matt Witmer

Matt Witmer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:30:19 +0000

Thanks Ben. The post has been corrected.

By: Benjamin Dobson

Benjamin Dobson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:16:58 +0000

Dragging tabs off windows was there in Safari 3, too.

By: Matt Witmer

Matt Witmer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:38:31 +0000

Interesting, I have heard a bunch of people talking about how it isn’t rendering sites correctly but I have not had a single problem, even my bank (USAA) renders correctly.

By: Ken Cohen

Ken Cohen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:45:24 +0000

I’d be careful about installing Safari 4 at this early point – it’s an early beta version and will have some glitches. The installation will remove version 3 without your permission. Version 4, I discovered, does not work on certain web sites (banking sites) and so I had to uninstall it and reinstall version 3.