Dear Steve, Fix Safari
This is the first in a series of posts in which we, your friendly neighborhood TUAWers, pen little missives to his Steveness asking him to cast aside his mercurial nature and listen to some common sense (which, of course we here at TUAW are known for). The item we wish to bring to Steve's attention could be a feature request, a gripe about an Apple policy, or some new vegan milk substitute. Here's the first:Dear Steve,
I really enjoy using Safari, in fact it has been my browser of choice since the day it first became available. When I am using a Windows machine, I long for the metal window of Safari, its simple and clear bookmark management system, and the nifty progress bar.
However, all is not right in Safari land. Let me paint you a picture: imagine you have just spent several hours surfing the web looking for tasty morsels for your blog (you are blogging, right?). You have them all lined up like good little soldiers in Safari tabs. Suddenly you need to get an item on your desktop, so you minimize Safari. Well, you meant to minimize Safari but instead you closed the window. Gone are all 87 tabs! With nary a warning to let you know of what you do!
This makes little to no sense. Safari, in cases like these, should warn you that you have several tabs open, and do you REALLY want to close the window? I shouldn't have to plunk down my hard earned cash for Saft (which is a wonderful little application) to give Safari such basic funtionality.
For crying out loud, Safari RSS doesn't seem to have a problem warning me that every .dmg I download is an application (duh!) and am I sure that I want to continue downloading?
This is a no brainer, Steve. Heck, even Firefox does it!
You Brother in Macness,
Scott
P.S. Do they sell those black turtlenecks in XXXL?
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Does anybody know how to delete specific items i have visited from the history pull down window in Safari without having to clear the whole week out? Is there some sorta shortcut that i am missing?
June 23 2005 at 9:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOkay, if you want that feature--fine, but make sure there's a preference to choose whether or not to ask. I realize I'm not the norm, but I often have several tabs open that I'm flipping between do accomplish something, then I'm done and am ready to close them all. I'd go nuts if I had to dismiss an "are you sure" box for every tab, or even just one confirmation box.
May 04 2005 at 5:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFolks, thanks for all the work around ideas, but this post is all about the fact that I don't think a work around should be needed for this. This is an oversight on Apple's part plain and simple! And Jorge, the same thing happens to me with Hotmail in Safari. I just using Firefox for Hotmail related activities. :)
May 04 2005 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've had a problem with Safari and hotmail since Panther, and it's still there in Safari 2.0 in Tiger, has anyone experienced something like this? 1. I can't empty my junk mail folder, I click OK in the pop up window and nothing happens 2. yesterday I was trying to download an attachment and every time I clicked the link it took me to the hotmail log-in screen. (I didn't log-out, or leaved hotmail even for a second) I tried the exact same attachment in firefox and no problem at all, went back to safari and same thing happened. In case anyone wonders, my prefered mail now is gmail, bt unfortunatelly I still have to check my hotmail while all the people update my email address.
May 04 2005 at 12:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow.. some of you missed my comment above.. The browser should remember its state when it's closed (or crashes) and restore it when it's launched. Opera does this out of the box. Firefox does it with the addition of the ReloadEvery extension.
May 04 2005 at 11:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyConsider adding Windowshade to your system. It collapses the browser window to a nice tidy titlebar and you need go nowhere near the close button to activate it. I've always hated collapsing a window to the dock, the icons just get smaller and smaller making the whole thing hard to use. . .
May 04 2005 at 10:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIts not Apple's fault you don't use Expos
May 04 2005 at 9:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd while they're at it, how about an option to "Bookmark all Tabs" like Firefox. This comes in very handy for me when I have several tabs open and need to either restart the browser due to it slowing to a crawl or restart the OS during an update. When I come back I just select the bookmark and open it in tabs. Saft does this, but it really should be built-in.
May 04 2005 at 7:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDon't understand the comment about editing history. Just open the history display and delete URLs you don't want.
May 04 2005 at 6:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi'm sorry guys but i'd hate if closing a window will greet me with one more dialogue and OK clicking ... bad enough that pages that do not load needed OK pressing - as i understand that is gone in Tiger ... but yeah - i'd hate if what you ask would be implemented ... i never ever have closed Safari window full of tabs ... probably because i use keyboard shortcuts and don't mouse around too much ...
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