Safari Beta 2 Available 374
pldms writes "Safari Beta 2 is available via Software Update or from the Safari page. This is build 73, for those who've had 'exclusive' access to previous development versions since beta 1 ;-) The blurb: 'Safari Beta 2 introduces tabbed browsing to conveniently see and switch between multiple web pages in a single window, and AutoFill to instantly fill out web forms and password fields. This update also features increased standards compatibility and improved application stability.'" I had to set Lax Certificate Checks in the Debug menu to use it with Slashdot ... and its secure cookie check is still quite broken (either saves secure cookies without the secure flag, or sends out secure cookies to insecure sites, which would violate
RFC 2965
where it says "no less than the same level of security").
Can't Wait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can't Wait (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Can't Wait (Score:2)
[crush:~] iw% sudo softwareupdate "SafariUpdate-1.0 Beta 2 (v73)"
Password:
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002 Apple Computer, Inc.
Downloading "Safari Update"... 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%2003-04-14 08:11:27.739 softwareupdate[1880] File verification succeeded
Unarchiving "Safari Update"... 50%
[snip]
Installing "Safari Update"... 99% 99% 99% 99% 99% 99% done.
Hmm...can't feel much difference :) (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't seem to be that much different from the previously leaked v67
Re:Hmm...can't feel much difference :) (Score:5, Informative)
Not that anyone using
Re:Hmm...can't feel much difference :) (Score:4, Informative)
I've been trying to make 73 crash by hiding, in the last few minutes to no avail.
Also, the auto fill feature button is different (I know your wanting functional improvments).
Another new feature is the "Reset Safari" found under the Safari menu. It appears to empty your cache, delete cookies, history, etc. Nice if you don't want your boss/wife finding all that porn you've been looking at.
There are more options when you right click on somethign (ctrl-click).
Some pdf don't automatically launch for me though after downloading them, I had this problem with 67, but not with 60.
There appears to be more options in the preferences too.
Re:Hmm...can't feel much difference :) (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks for that - I have the most wonderfully funny picture of a mac-geek hiding from his computer
"......"
*jumps up*
"BOO"
*safari crashes*
Re:Hmm...can't feel much difference :) (Score:2)
And it still screws up sending text messages from this AT&T page [att.net]. Type text into the sender and subject box and it only shows 1 character at a time. Type into the message box and i
Mmmmm, nice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mmmmm, nice... (Score:2)
Re:Mmmmm, nice... (Score:2)
I do think Safari needs to be threaded, it seems to pause when loading tabs in the background, just as the older mozilla 1.0 did. On mozilla I'd open a bug report, not sure where to report problems with Safari.
Re:Mmmmm, nice... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mmmmm, nice... (Score:3, Insightful)
Just like Safari, it does some nice things and has great speed compared to other Mac Browsers but it doesn't even have the basic threading abilities that IE had back in 1998. Apple should be more on the ball and this should have been a part of the original design specifications and not something they will add.
Ju
yes, of course (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if you're a troll or just someone who likes to sounds clever?
Most Windows installers maximize their window, whereas all common Mac installers just use a regular window.
How many Windows users do actually minimize the installer screen though? How many just sit watching its pretty blue bar?
Oh! Now in this paragraph we can all see you're not talking about installers on the Mac after all, you're talking about you're talking about the Quicktime for Windows installer. The fact you cannot minimize it sounds annoying, true. However, as you point out you can always press Windows-M to get rid of it. Or Alt-Tab one assumes...?
So infact the set of users who are effected by this issue comes down to those people who
In other words, its a tiny annoyance in Apple's Windows installer which, while it should be corrected, has almost no effect on anyone...
Have you actually any examples, beyond vague suggestions that the Mac "File Manager" wasn't multi-threaded enough in Mac OS X 10.0 ? I mean, I wouldn't claim its perfect even in 10.2, but then I've used Windows NT and its "File Manager" for over half a decade now, and you know, it has a few threading issues too. I don't want to be rude, but other than your poorly constructed installer rant, you don't actually seem to have any examples.
Of course, you have links you could share with us to actual profiling results showing comparisons between MacOS, Windows and Linux (et al.). These show conclusively where "responsiveness differences" occur, and then proceed to demonstrate how these are surely caused by the Mach micro kernel and not any other factor like, just for example: hardware or boneheaded programing in the File Manager or GUI?
Please do post such material. It would be very interesting.
Re:Mmmmm, nice... (Score:4, Funny)
That's ok, they don't have any
The writing is on the wall.. (Score:4, Funny)
Apple has Safari.
Safaris are for big, strong dudes.
Acronym for big, strong dudes is "BSD"
BSD is dying.
Apple has a BSDish system under the hood.
ergo: Apple is dying.
Keyboard Implementation (Score:5, Informative)
Apple-Click : Opens a link in a new tab.
Apple-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new tab and selects it.
Apple-Option-Click : Opens a link in a new window behind the other one.
Apple-Option-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new window and selects it.
There is also the check box option to always display the tab bar, plus 'Select new tabs as they are created', which alters the above keyboard setup.
I'm on my iBook at the moment, so I'm not sure how these interface with multi-button mice, but I guess you could configure the buttons to correlate with these modifiers, if you haven't already...
Re:Keyboard Implementation (Score:5, Informative)
Secondly
Apple-Shift-Left or Right : Switches to the previous or next tab in a window, which is nice. It is also circular, so going right when browsing the final tab will bring you back to the first...
Re:Keyboard Implementation (Score:5, Informative)
You can use these features with the right-mouse-button click google.com search. This is where you RMB click a word and one of the options is a google search of that word. Before this new build, it wasn't that useful, as the google search would be done in the same window (i.e. navigating you away for the page you were on).
Safari rocks!
Re:Keyboard Implementation (Score:3, Informative)
Instead of right-click, use (on my iBook):
ctrl-applekey-mouse button on a *highlighted* word, then select 'google search' with just a regular click.
"Search Google" service (Score:3, Informative)
The service lets you search Google with selected text in any app supporting services, not just Safari, with just a cmd-shift-G. It's amazing how useful this is! For example, I'll often select some class name in my code to look for online docs.
True, it doesn't integrate with Safari's tabs in any slick way -- it ju
Re:Keyboard Implementation (Score:3, Informative)
so, modified I get:
Apple-Click : Opens a link in a new tab (and select it)
Apple-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new tab but don't select it.
Apple-Option-Click : Opens a link in a new window and select it.
Apple-Option-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new window behind the other one.
Re:Keyboard Implementation (Score:2)
The perfect browser? (Score:4, Interesting)
The new tabbed interface is VERY well done. I'm very happy with it now. Could be the perfect browser....for me at least.
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:5, Informative)
Then I went to an ftp site.
For those unaware, Safari can't browse ftp. It delegates it to another application. This is curious, yet might be ok if weren't for the fact that the application in question is the finder, which attempts to mount the ftp site as a disk.
Annoying. And it gets worse, because mounting a remote ftp site often seems to threadlock the entire OS: the dreaded spinning wheel of death.
So I'm currently rebooting thanks to Safari.
(posted using Camino)
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:3, Interesting)
You're lucky. Dunno about average.
I've no idea why it occurs, but it's nasty when it does. (Maybe because I'm using NAT? Other clients work. Alignment of the planets?) I doesn't always happen, but it's been regular enough for me to avoid it like the plague.
I guess it breaks down to the following:
1) Why can't safari browse ftp?
2) Why don't Apple provide Internet Config anymore, so I can punt ftp onto so
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:2)
Heh. Why can't Apple just punt you to the command line? Not like you need fancy graphics to ftp.
Why can't Apple fix the kernel?
Multithreading the finder would be a *huge* task. One very much worth doing, but still a huge one. There are some other things they should do too, like rewrite it in Cocoa to take advantage of cocoa-y features and make the system UI more consistent (wrt text-dragging and the like). I would
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:2, Informative)
Heh. Why can't Apple just punt you to the command line? Not like you need fancy graphics to ftp.
Well, I was thinking of Transmit or somesuch. btw, I wasn't clear originally. You can use IE to set the URL handler for a give URL scheme (like Internet Config could). All apps seem to respect it. Weird that IE has a use
Multithreading the finder would be a *huge* task.
It's not the Finder's fault. When this fault arise
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:2)
Changing protocol helpers (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The perfect browser? (Score:5, Informative)
Interesting - this locked up your entire system? On dial-up, I've seen it cause Finder to lock up and need a Force Quit, but never lock the entire OS. I've just followed mbkkelsey's advice [slashdot.org] and used Vince [monkeyfood.com] to change the ftp 'helper' application. In my quick test, I used Transmit [panic.com] and it worked flawlessly.
Of course, it would still be a whole lot nicer if Safari could handle the FTP itself, just like virtually every other modern browser...
You had me there for a second (Score:4, Funny)
New: "Open in Tabs" item in Bookmarks Bar menus (Score:5, Informative)
Re:New: "Open in Tabs" item in Bookmarks Bar menus (Score:2)
Re:New: "Open in Tabs" item in Bookmarks Bar menus (Score:3, Informative)
The "open in tabs" feature is somewhat buggy. Any existing tabs disappear; and the "back" button after all of the new tabs show up takes the browser back to the previous tabs. (ie, if Slashdot and Yahoo are in two tabs; selecting "open in tabs" of my "Apple" bookmark folder would replace
Something else worth mentioning is that if you close all of the tabs, you can't open a U
Re:New: "Open in Tabs" item in Bookmarks Bar menus (Score:5, Interesting)
I think this is actually the desired behavior. It allows you to treat a collection of links as a single "location" you can go to, instead of treating each separate tab as a wholly separate instance. While it might take some getting used to, I kinda like it. I can open up my 'News' pages in a single click and, after browsing all the tabs, return back to whatever I was doing beforehand with another single click.
That's something I always appreciate about Apple -- their willingness to push a UI feature to its limits....
Right-mouse button Google feature (Score:2, Interesting)
fh
Re:Right-mouse button Google feature (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Right-mouse button Google feature (Score:3, Informative)
Maybe a hierachial (sp?) menu feature here would be a slicker solution though...
Satan Holds Snowball Fight (Score:5, Funny)
An EDITOR that actually READS Slashdot?!? Can this truly be real?
Re:Satan Holds Snowball Fight (Score:3, Funny)
Ummm... (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:Ummm... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ummm... (Score:2)
perhaps i should rtfm next time.
Re:Ummm... (Score:2)
Serious question (Score:3, Interesting)
I have some friends now that recently switched to the apple side of computing, and I can't help but laugh at them on some of the stuff they applaud Apple for. This browser is one of them.
They claim it is faster, but I just don't see how that is possible. The bottleneck in most all browsing I do is the network. Have they simply found a way to make it seem faster? Have other browsers on the Mac been slow in the past? I don't get it.
As a reference. I use IE at work, and Phoenix (or should that be the browser formerly known as Phoenix) at home. While I do appreciate some of the benefits of Phoenix over IE, I honestly think it is a toss up between them.
I think most of my problems nowdays are with sites that are just ugly. However, I can't tell the difference -- or maybe I just don't care -- between the way any browsers handle fonts and whatnot. I also can't notice most of the differences between how sites render. I do appreciate the fact that most sites appear stable in all browsers now.
So... what is so great about Safari?
Re:Serious question (Score:5, Interesting)
I think it's a case of just an efficient rendering algorithm versus the retarded code inside Internet Explorer for the Mac (or the PC for that matter). It renders much faster, so with a fast site it feels faster overall.
Yeah, with a slow site Safari is slow, but that's not what people are talking about. We know the bottleneck is ultimately the network- that's not a newsflash. Safari makes the user end as quick as possible.
I just wish some browser maker would do better caching. I'm so tired on clicking "Back" and the browsers sits and spins for a long time. It's in the freaking cache, you dimwit pile of crap! It's only one page back! I've seen this stupid behavior in every browser on Macs, PCs and Suns regardless of user settings.
Re:Serious question (Score:2)
I have the opposite problem with Opera 7. If I hit back, it will get the page from the cache, which can be annoying when it's a page I'm working on, and I know it's changed since I last loaded it.
Re:Serious question (Score:2)
IIRC OmniWeb used to cache the rendered page when moving down through a web site. This gave it lightning fast drawing when moving back. However it did use a shed load of memory and could be problem
It's not that much better, it's just handy (Score:5, Insightful)
Safari is not the greatest thing since penicillin. It won't save the world. It's not even a full release version.
What it is: a relatively svelte, quick-feeling (and yes that's partly just render speed), nicely spare browser that feels fine to use. Look at a page in Safari next to, say, Opera. The leanness of Safari stands out in several senses: render speed, clean layout, just the speed with which the program loads.
It's like a tool that feels good in your hand. Apple has a way of producing stuff like that. That's what your friends mean.
(And when your friends start claiming iCal as one of Apple's triumphs, then you can suspect them. There's a program in serious need of practical work, and much more of a beta than Safari. Slow as molasses, too.)
Re:It's not that much better, it's just handy (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Opera's for a different set of tastes (Score:3, Interesting)
But in general, Opera is cluttered by comparison with IE, leave alone Safari. It has a modest measure of feature creep -- mail client, a "Contacts" list as part of my browser? Between the two Opera versions I can see without standing up, here, it seems not to particularly respect the API of the OS. (One version is treating non-modal "Transfers" dialogs so that I can't drag them outside the program's overall frame. Dang it
Re:Serious question (Score:4, Insightful)
Mac users can be a bit silly with these things, it's true. But as a non-Mac user you probably take some things for granted - like having a fast web browser. One that is highly optimized for your OS. We've never really had that and it does make a difference, network bottlenecks notwithstanding.
Re:Serious question (Score:2)
Damn sexy. (Score:5, Informative)
Ok, updated Safari. Tabbed browsing support means Safari is now my default browser.
But I want to transfer the bookmarks from the bookmark bar in Camino to Safari. Seems like a lot of trouble. Because, well, it couldn't... or, it's OS X but yet... could bookmarks be drag-n-droppable? Between browsers from two entirely different places? They couldn't...
But they are. And that's damn sexy.
It just works.
Re:Damn sexy. (Score:5, Informative)
I was about to post my usual mention of Safari Enhancer [versiontracker.com] when I realized what you were saying. Safari recognizes URL drags into the bookmarks bar from pretty much any source, including .webloc files and text selections. Definitely cool. Makes me wonder why other browsers don't do the same.
Please mod parent up.Re:Damn sexy. (Score:2)
Best of both worlds (Score:4, Informative)
Finally! Tabbed browsing... the one feature I missed from Camino!
From the fifteen minutes I've used it so far, Safari now "acts" a lot like Camino
Now I get the speed of Safari with the features of Camino!
Camino has been quite crashy for me (as others posting have mentioned as well) so I'll hold off the final verdict to see if Safari crashes less (though, I will state that it crashed less anyway... it just didn't have tabs!) :)
-A
Tabs could be trouble at work (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.debka.com/
DEBKAfile, Political Anal
Not something I'd want my boss seeing.
Any news on bookmark searching? (Score:4, Interesting)
I would really like to see it added in someway to Safari as now it is my main browser my bookmarks, despite attempted organisation are beginning to get out of control.
Swapping the Google search panel for a bookmark search interface (when you flick the bookmark switch, which checked titles and URLs) would be cool, and as a 'power' feature if you could searched cached versions of the bookmark's pages as well it would be excellent (please inform me if another browser already has that functionality)...
Safari tabs brain damages (Score:2)
Open a new window. Open a new tab. Close the entire window by clicking on the gumdrop.
Voila! Now your default window size is huge!
Apparently Apple was content to get professional UI design for only the first beta. Other things that should be present, such as drag-and-drop tab rearrangement, also aren't present. (From a UI perspective, there's no com
Bugzilla users beware :( (Score:4, Informative)
I currently recommend a nightly build of Camino [mozilla.org] instead for these users. It now has a pretty nifty & flexible Google search bar finally (obligatory screenshot [toadstool.sh]). I do miss the spell-as-you-type feature in Safari however.
Two more bugs, one fixed, one still there (Score:2)
STILL THERE: That horrible scrollbug!
Bookmark menu 'Open in Tabs' button (Score:5, Informative)
It opens every bookmark in that menu in it's own tab. Woot. talk about a lotta web pages
Re: Bookmark menu 'Open in Tabs' button (Score:2)
> OK, for the record, when looking in your bookmarks and seeing the 'Open in Tabs' button when you think 'what does this do?' ... It opens every bookmark in that menu in it's own tab.
FWIW, this feature is in Galeon [sourceforge.net] too. I don't know how long it has been there; I never knew it existed until I read this thread and thought to look at the bookmarks menu to see whether it did this too.
> talk about a lotta web pages
Yeah, tabs will change your browsing habits. Right now I have 28 browser windows open
so far, so good. (Score:2, Interesting)
tab switching is kind of slow at times, even with only 2 or 3 tabs open.
i'm still waiting for them to get the 'check spelling as you type' pref to stick between sessions.
other than that, this browser is truly amazing. loads pages lightning quick,looks great, and the feature set is starting to set it at par with the other big time browsers for mac.
Secret fascinations (Score:2)
Hmm, that's not the only thing that people browsing the web have secret fascinations with...
Stuff That's Been Fixed (Score:4, Insightful)
2) Cookies are finally working on PHP nuke sites: previous versions would lose preferences right after signing in.
3) I can finally login to my university's registration system. It uses this [sct.com] software; I'm guessing other schools rely on it too.
Anything else?
Arabic language support is still not quire right (certain letters in words are being displayed too small). A Windows Media Player plugin might be nice, but that probably is on the shoulders of M$ more-so than Apple. Other than that everything is perfect; tabs were something I was expecting anyway, and the right-click Google search was a surprise bonus.
Re:Stuff That's Been Fixed (Score:3, Insightful)
On the plus side, I can finally log into my bank's internet banking service, which previously locked me out. So now I can figure out how much money I owe the school, but I can't check my grades. =)
Get Your Helmet On (Score:3, Informative)
Make sure you upgrade your version of PithHelmet [hiredgoons.com].
If you don't have it and run Safari, I strongly recommend it. It's a flexible way of filtering ads.
It rocks.
Wither Camino/Chimera? (Score:5, Insightful)
I have used and loved Chimera for many months for many reasons. As other have found, the renamed Camino is crash-prone, strange in the very last nightly build of Chimera before the trademark-conflict name change (which you can find easily by anonymous FTP to their server) is great. I downgraded to Build 2003030408 and am content.
Now comes Safari, also great, except the lack of tabbed browsing and that awful brushed metal stuff. OK, tabbed browsing is now checked off on the feature list. Safari shares a startling number of other features, and then some. Eventually Safari will be indistinguishable from Camino/Chimera. Congratulations Apple, what a coup.... (Hey guys, add keywords for bookmarks so I can continue to google with "g keyword keyword" and I'll switch.)
So what's the deal for independent software efforts? Bust yourself to develop and demonstrate new UI and core technologies to have them lifted by a large for-profit computer maker? Granted the open source Camino is intended to create new work without profit, but at some point it will also lose the "profit" of public attention, and wither away, and cease to produce new things.
At the least I'd like to see Safari give a nod to Chimera. At the best I'd like an answer from Apple how they're not doing the Internet Explorer thing in miniature, and how non-Apple developers will continue to inspire and be inspired when they face having their work negated in a mere twitch of the tail of the whale.
I'm a Mac person, and back to the years before the Mac (the Apple ][+ is in a box). I think Apple has often done the right thing and will continue to (often) do the right thing. But there is something disturbing in their generous production of free software, similar in effect if not (I hope) intent to what Redmond has done. Be careful, Apple.
Re:Wither Camino/Chimera? (Score:3, Interesting)
Autofill coolness... (Score:4, Informative)
Ok, so it is minor. Still cool.
If software update doesn't work (Score:3, Informative)
Moving Windows! (Score:2, Informative)
Can't wait for KDE 3.2 (Score:4, Insightful)
Thanks Apple!
Debug menu (Score:3, Informative)
and then relaunch Safari. A new menu entitled "Debug" should be available.
Actually, the RFC says... (Score:3, Informative)
Pi
What about MIME-types Configuration? (Score:3, Interesting)
I ran into this when I realized that I couldn't tell it how to handle Bit Torrent but had no problems with Mozilla. You know, some way of teaching Safari how to handle a new type?
Does anyone know how this is supposed to be done?
--Richard
How to make Safari smaller (Score:4, Informative)
Removing French, German and Japanese brought the file size down to 7.6 meg.
Re:Camino (Score:2)
camino is all well and good, but there's no need to diss safari.
Re:Software update? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What the heck is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What the heck is... (Score:2, Funny)
To be honest, I noticed both. The word "Apple" did provide some indication that this was going to be Mac-related, and at the same time I started to wonder why the "X" looked so different from when I had last seen it on the XFree86 home page. All of this sent my mind into a "I-know-there's-something-fishy-going-on-here" mode, which lasted for about thirty second
Re:What the heck is... (Score:2, Informative)
In fairness, the phrases "tabbed browsing" and "multiple web pages" should have provided a hint...
Re:mmmm, Safari (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, now *there's* a bellwether for you! Who needs Gallup Polls and sophisticated statistical sampling when an AC will share abstracts from his homepage's usage log with us, eh?
Re:mmmm, Safari (Score:2)
Almost as good is Opera in schitophrenic IE mode, where it claims to be both IE and Opera, and some versions of IE6.x which claim to be IE6, IE 5.5 and IE5.0 all at the same time, often with two different versions of the .NET CLR installed.
Re:Opera? (Score:2)
I do use Opera on my Zaurus. Recently though, I've been using Konq instead of it though.
Re:Opera? (Score:3, Interesting)
There's a major font size issue and something mildly wonky with margins.
Re:Opera? (Score:2)
Re:Opera? (Score:3, Informative)
Learn to use
Example entry in
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I see no ads from that server anymore.
For more info, check out http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
However, to enable this file, you must enable "BSD Configuration Files" with/in
-/-
Mikey-San
Re:Opera? (Score:3, Insightful)
Opera to Apple: "Use our rendering engine or we'll have to rethink our product's availability on the Mac."
Apple to Opera: "HAhhahhsgkjlasdhlglasfasjklroflroflroflololodgja l sdgljhahdgahhhdajsklgfasdgsafjsahetfiasjkd37895&*( ^QW%QWE.
Camino is definitely cool in my book, though. I figure, the Mac has Camino and Safari
Re:mac problem (Score:2)
Glad to help.
Re:mouseover a link ? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:mouseover a link ? (Score:2)
Safari is pretty nice looking, but It doesnt seem to be fully threaded on loading tabs in the background. I can hang it when loading 3-4 tabs, it freezes like mozilla 1.0 did before the fixed it.
BTW, I know there are key combos to open new tabs in Safari, the point is, you shouldnt need two hands to surf with a webbrowser (no porn jokes please.)
Re:mouseover a link ? (Score:2)
For me middle clicking opens links in new tabs in both Camino and Safari.
Bush using a Dell? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sad (Score:4, Insightful)
which is nicer to see when you right click on the background of a webpage, this:
mind you, i see all that crap EVERY time i rightclick on the background in konqueror. why do i see create data cd? why do i see open in new tab? i'm not even right clicking on a link!
If browser makers reduced half this clutter it wouldn't even be nearly as useful and powerful as safari.
Might I suggest... (Score:3, Insightful)