Safari 4 Beta

Regular Visitor From : Florida OS : XP Pro

Available here

http://apple.com/safari/download

Im not liking the new look sad

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 24th 2009, 4:02 pm

won't download for now... Firefox FTW ... :p

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

I love the new look!

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On macs angry

The new windows look really doesn't go and the tabs at the top don't work with visual styles/windowblinds. I really want to use it, 'cause the new features are awesome (if a little slow in my little laptop), but it's just so ugly... *le sigh* sad

Subscriber From : Brazil OS : Windows 7

I liked the new look on windows...
and the tabs at the top remembers me google chrome tongue

Regular Visitor From : Florida OS : XP Pro

One thing I must say, it is fast and feels a bit more responsive than the previous version, Im on XP btw.

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 24th 2009, 8:40 pm

I'm using it right now on mac, and it seems to be faster and more responsive.
I also think the addition of coverflow and top sites is very cool happy

Regular Visitor

Didn't quite like the tabs at the top, since visual styles don't play nice with it, works well with aero tho. Too chrome-ish to me, doesn't look 'apple' enough I feel anymore. But putting appearance behind, its a fast, and talented browser. Its taken the place of Firefox as default browser for the time being tongue

Senior Member From : England OS : XP/Ubuntu

Apple overuse coverflow WAY too much angry

I've tried it, but i still wouldn't switch from Firefox

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

BOyOfWONDEr wrote:: Apple overuse coverflow WAY too much

Why all the hate for CoverFlow? Admittedly, it's pointless in Finder, but at least it actually has a use in Safari tongue

(and iTunes - yay for shinies happy

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Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 25th 2009, 8:46 pm

Bah, I'm not a big fan of firefox for mac so I've sticked to safari tongue

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I do think though, that the tabs at the top are VERY annoying since they can get VERY large and are right next to the window buttons. I think they should have actually followed chromes example, and made the tabs smaller even with 2 windows, also move the away a bit from the buttons on the window tongue

Still have yet to try it on windows, im gonna go ahead and download right now

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 26th 2009, 6:32 pm

their cover flow crap is just a piclens plugin that looks like its been jizzed on... its a totaly rip of chromium and i wouldnt be surprised if apple didnt steal a little ideas from xD. most visited sites AND top bars? come on apple. lets be a little creative ^_^

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i wish i could move the tabs to the bottom, but otherwise i lik it

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 26th 2009, 8:10 pm

Lbroskee wrote:: i wish i could move the tabs to the bottom, but otherwise i lik it

Me too, they don't work well on the top unlike chromes

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta February 27th 2009, 6:58 pm

meh... its a nice attempt at saving space i guess but with aero it just looks horrible... from the screenshots of OS X it looks like crap too xD but no worries. we should be seeing some greasekit scripts soon to fix this idiocy xD

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta March 6th 2009, 7:25 am

in safari 4 = to open external links in tabs rather than windows:

Code:: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

and to have the old safari 3 look with the tabs at the bottom:

Code:: defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE

enter these in terminal in OS X. sorry windows people.

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta March 6th 2009, 8:00 pm

PrekeshC wrote:

in safari 4 = to open external links in tabs rather than windows:

Code:: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

and to have the old safari 3 look with the tabs at the bottom:

Code:: defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE

enter these in terminal in OS X. sorry windows people.

Nice tips

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I applied the tabs mod some time ago, it's so much better. I don't understand why it isn't like that by default..

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

YAY bottom tabs again!!! THANK U!!

Senior Member From : England OS : XP/Ubuntu

Thanks! Might actually try it now happy

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta March 8th 2009, 7:11 pm

I hated the tabs at the top SO much, I hope they scrap that idea before the final release.. or at least make it nicer tongue

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ya i agree, i was getting sick of every time i clicked a tab my whole window ended up moving

Moderator OS : Vista

Bring on firefox 3.5 smile

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ok so i found u can add items to top sites from machints.com, the only problem is my safari doesnt save the changes if i quit. what is going on? o btw it started randomly quitting on me alot today idk y

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta March 19th 2009, 8:07 pm

just use the not beta :/

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

the not beta? u mean safari 3?

Subject: Re: Safari 4 Beta March 19th 2009, 8:13 pm

yeah

sorry. but just for kicks go ahead and run safari and when it crashes copy the console message wink

(run the console application after it crashes and post the last 20 or so lines.)