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You're in Charge: What would you change about Safari?

Safari logo QuestionHere comes another "You're in Charge" boys and girls. We've covered Mail and iChat so far, and this time around we want your thoughts on Safari. It's an excellent browser, and even more appealing if you have a .Mac account. While Firefox claims the extensibility crown, Safari is certainly no stranger to add-ons and plug-ins, as PimpMySafari.com can attest to.

But even with the tools available, and Safari's graduation from the Acid2 test with 10.4.3, I'm sure you all still have wishes, dreams and requests for Safari's abilities, and we'd like to hear them. With the healthy community of plug-in developers out there, chances are someone with skillz might be listening too. So have at it, TUAW readers: you're in charge - what would you change about Safari?
 

Here comes another "You're in Charge" boys and girls. We've covered Mail and iChat so far, and this time around we want your...
 

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macorian

Security/ privacy are the keyworks. At the very least, there should be decent cookie management. Being able to block content from certain server would be a welcome additional feature.

December 15 2005 at 5:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aebhric

Simple one: Option in Safari Preferences that allows you to turn off automatic loading of PDF pages in Safari window.

November 23 2005 at 6:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas Deliduka

It's probably too late but I want the ability to control popup windows per site like SafariStand does.

November 23 2005 at 6:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dennis

I'd like to be able to switch tabs while the other tab is loading. Also minimizing safari while a webpage is loading is hardly possible. Have to wait till the page is there, and then the command executes.

November 17 2005 at 3:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robert

Would like to see, that editing postings in Serendipity (s9y) Weblog is possible. Its the only thing which not work with Safari and this Blog Engine.

November 17 2005 at 3:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tom stovall

XHTML support!!!! many of my apps do not work.

November 17 2005 at 7:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Neil

Safari does not play nicely with myspace.com - the 8th most visited website according to alexa. This is completely unacceptable, the top 10 sites should be accessible from all browsers with no compatibility problems.

November 16 2005 at 11:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ian Adams

"I am soooooo tired of having to search through history to find all my open tabs after my wife has been surfing and quit out of Safari!" Why not set up a separate user account for her and use Fast User Switching? "Ctrl-Shift-~ should cycle through tabs." Well, I think more they should just change it back to ??Tab. I changed mine back to that when they first changed the keyboard shortcut, although I don't remember how I did that any more. As an aside, why doesn't TUAW use Unicode for it's charset? We are, after all, all using Macs...

November 16 2005 at 10:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

Limeybloke: I think others have mentioned this, but I couldn't agree more. The IE scrapbook rocked. There's a plug-in at PimpMySafari.com called Concierge that adds a sidebar/drawer to Safari that offers something like it. I think the plug-in is shareware but there's a trial period.

November 16 2005 at 9:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Limeybloke

Look, I'm probably going to get flamed for saying this but IE did get one thing right. No really. Why cant I save a page in a 'scrapbook'? I don't want a folder full of documents to browse and open, I want to access saved pages from within Safari and I want all the page downloaded please. Safari's 'save' command is improved but unbelievably still not as user - friendly as IE's mac version. To go beyond IE I want a library - like sortable scrapbook of preserved pages that opens up like the bookmarks library does.

November 16 2005 at 7:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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