24 Hours of Leopard: Safari 3

Okay I know I'm in the minority... but I like Safari, and I like to open new links in a window not a tab.

BUT... the new vers is driving me crazy because unless I'm missing something, if I apple click on a link (as I did in previous versions) it does open a new window, however it's behind the one I'm currently in (why anyone would want that is beyond me). Yes, I can shift-apple-click and get it to open in the front, but my fingers have a strong sense memory and I find it a real pain.

Is there is no way to customize and get back the old way? I've looked, but maybe you are all much smarter.

How many people have issues with Safari crashing at various web pages, mainly youtube?

I haven't used Safari for a while in favour of Camino - there's somrthing about the feel and features of Camino I like. Anyway recently Safari, pre and post Leopard, has been slow starting up. I think it's from when I tried the first 3 beta, and had to roll back to 2 because it didn't launch so well.

URL for the InputManager blog post was stripped; maybe this'll work:

macromates.com/blog/2007/inputmanagers-on-leopard/

Re: The feature that allow Safari to remember tabs that were open and offer to open then on relaunch would be invaluable.

If Safari 3's "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" isn't good enough an alternative is the SafariStand plug-in's "Restore Last Workspace" visual version. I don't have Leopard yet so I'm not sure how well SS works with Safari 3 but it and PithHelmet are my two must-have plug-ins for Safari 2. I'd used Saft before SafariStand got to the point of being a good enough replacement for it. Saft seemed to make Safari more unstable, maybe related to problems it's had co-existing with PithHelmet.

Re: PDF viewing. It's weak in Safari 2, e.g. most documents are unreadably small and there are no keyboard shortcuts for zooming. First impression is that it'll be more usable in Safari 3 though I only opened one document during my Leopard testing on Friday.

Re: InputManagers. This summarizes it well:

TextMate Blog » InputManagers on Leopard

Re: Firefox. For me it still qualifies as a poor OS X citizen; I'll have to see if it improves with FF3. Getting FF to integrate with other OS apps as well as Safari is often difficult or impossible, which is more of a priority to me than other browser features.

"it can remember what tabs you had open and offer to reopen them when you relaunch Safari"
Camino already has this feature.

Integrated PDF tools (so you no longer need to download a PDF and open it in Preview)
Can already get this feature.

Plus, Camino and Firefox open new tabs behind the current tab.

Are there any new features on Safari that Camino and/or Firefox do not have?

abovethelies: Totally agreed, but Firefox makes it loads easier to find and install extensions than Safari. Apple needs to place more emphasis on Safari's expandability (and that includes making changes to Safari itself to make it friendlier in that regard) if they want plugins to take off. Also, I understand they've killed off Input Manager in Leopard, which puts a great many useful Safari plugins (i.e. Inquisitor) out of business.

Scott: I'm surprised nobody called this one yet, but Safari has been able to view PDF documents right in the browser since Tiger's introduction; that's not new to Safari 3. It certainly still counts as one of those "how-did-I-ever-live-without-this" features, though. :)

safari does not auto finish the URL anything when i type in the name and press enter without the .com... that was my favorite lazy boy feature of safari.

Ok, it's release day. What about Input Managers and Saft?

Why won't the latest Yahoo Mail work with Safari? It's been out for ages, and many people use and depend on Yahoo Mail. Does the fault lie with Yahoo or Apple? And does anyone know if anything is being done about it?