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Taboo Saves You From Yourself

Taboo, from Obsessive Compulsive Development, is the hack many of us have been waiting for. It does two things...  it provides a warning before quitting or closing a Safari window that has multiple tabs open and it lets you disable those annoying warning messages that Safari now presents when downloading a file which contains an application. Those of you afraid of wanton widgets won't want to do that, but I'm a brave soul.

It works great for me in Tiger. I haven't tested it in Panther, so proceed there at your own risk.

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Cyberwhore

SiPod, I am on broadband but I will have a poke around in there anyway and see what I can find. Thanks for the tip, I didn't think to look there.

May 13 2005 at 3:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hobbster

"...how do you disable the highly annoying popup that is generated by internect connect (I think) asking you if you wish to stay connected to the internet? Whoever comes up with a fix for this should get 5 stars." Cyberwhore, assuming you're on a modem, go to Apple Menu : System Preferences : Network : "Show" Internal Modem : "PPP" tab : "PPP Options..." button. There you'll find peace and contentment.

May 12 2005 at 10:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ralex

ugh.. please don't say 'me likey'. Please

May 12 2005 at 12:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pedro

Why doesn't apple give us the best of both worlds? A window that states 'you have x tabs open, do you wish to close' and THEN have a check box stating "do not show this again" that way the people who don't like it can make it go away, and the people who do like it don't have to download an extra program for it! Now about the fact that Safari gives no sort of feedback whenever it blocks a window...

May 12 2005 at 9:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
D Jones

"Nice fix, but how do you disable the highly annoying popup that is generated by internect connect (I think) asking you if you wish to stay connected to the internet? " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_internet *ducks* :P

May 12 2005 at 6:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Small Paul

I gotta say, I prefer Saft, which can be set to remember all your open tabs even after you've quit, and re-load them all when you re-start. It does add a fair number of options to your Safari menus though, so if you only want the warning, it's probably not worth all the cruft. But it does also allow you to re-order tabs by dragging them. Which is kinda cool.

May 12 2005 at 4:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cyberwhore

Nice fix, but how do you disable the highly annoying popup that is generated by internect connect (I think) asking you if you wish to stay connected to the internet? Whoever comes up with a fix for this should get 5 stars.

May 12 2005 at 4:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mountain/\Ash

"I haven't tested it in Panther, so proceed there at your own risk." I have. Works fine on Safari 1.3 (v312). Risk minimised.

May 12 2005 at 12:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

Wow, this is just what I was looking for. I hate when I accidentally close tabs and don't mean to, so annoying. Finally something to help with it! SWEET! Thanks for the great find!

May 12 2005 at 12:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurie

"Quite to the contrary, I am a hardcore key-command shortcut user, but CMD+W closes only your open tab, not the window. For that I believe you need (arrow up)+CMD+W" Actually, I /meant/ CMD-Q'ing ;) CNTRL-EJECT isn't that difficult to do by accident on a cluttered desk, trust me :)

May 11 2005 at 11:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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