Safari User Interface RE-improvement Ping!
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I also disliked the resizing of the tabs as you added tabs... returning to the previous method solved that as well.
Seeking out the rotating activity circle at the end of the URL address space to indicate loading time was also a problem... it is hard to find. So I returned to the blue barometer bar as well. Much better. I still get the phenomenal speed of Safari 4 but the better, not new and improved, User Interface of Safari 3.
One thing that is still lacking, though is the reload, stop loading button that had been moved to the URL address field... it is not available to be added to the Tool Bar. RATS.
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I like the new tabs feature with them on top. I hope they keep it in the release
Mandriva or bust.
i agree... and had already implemented the Terminal commands necessary to return to a more coherent Tab system where the tabs are not divorced from the Window they are related to be such a distance as when they are put on the title bar. The quarter inch of screen acreage is not as important as maintaining that immediate connection.
I also disliked the resizing of the tabs as you added tabs... returning to the previous method solved that as well.
Seeking out the rotating activity circle at the end of the URL address space to indicate loading time was also a problem... it is hard to find. So I returned to the blue barometer bar as well. Much better. I still get the phenomenal speed of Safari 4 but the better, not new and improved, User Interface of Safari 3.
I also think that the relocation of the tabs is not an improvement.I seem to have gotten used to the fact that the spell, preview, and post buttons grow with zoom, tho - and wouldn't change it. Even if you did tell me how to do so . . .
I think that at some point it would be good to revert back to Safari 3.x and remind myself exactly what the differences are, and how the speed is affected by the switch.
Ok Sword, how do I make the necessary changes from a Windows machine? I know that Macs have Terminal.app but what can I use to fix things with Windows?
I will never touch a beta.
Do you know of a means to block ads in Safari on a windows box?
I have heard mixed comments on Safari 4. Some really like it, while others hate it. This is the norm when any major interface change comes down the pike.
I don’t have the guts to install it yet... When I did the Safari 3 beta, it hosed a couple of programs - including one pretty important one. That cost me. It’s the whole updated rootkit that causes the problem.
I like the rendering speed of Safari 4It makes my 1Ghz PowerBook running Leopard, Blaze !
I do however miss the blue thermometer.
To me, it seems like Apple had heard that 'Chrome has tabs on top,' but instead of just being honest and admitting that Google got it right, they set a goal for themselves to make as many arbitrary and useless changes as possible so they could still claim they were innovating.They hire away some programmers from MS? ;')
There, the tabs are the titlebar, leading to a rather schizophrenic UI widget: it has to act as a titlebar and a tab bar, and consequently, does neither of the two very well.
As soon as I saw those tabs, I closed Safari 4 and said "bye-bye".
My only UI problem with Safari 4 is that they removed the blue progress bar from the URL and replaced it with the spinning gear. The tabs are fine, and are actually more coherent from a UI point of view than previous incarnations: given the top-down hierarchy of computer UI design, the way widgets are stacked is important.
Putting the tabs on top means that the URL bar and screen area display below are associated with that tab, borrowing the paradigm of a binder tab system. It makes more sense than putting tabs below the URL bar, even if we’ve had tabs below the URL bar for 20 years.
I downloaded the tweak menu and it works well. I like the new interface, but then I’m a Mac fanboy. So, I’m waiting for my next marching orders from Apple.
I like Google’s implementation of the top tabs a lot better. With Apple’s implementation, there is no area to click on at the top of the window that is not a tab. So if you try to raise a browser window you might accidentally raise to the top another tab that wasn’t the one you intended to look at.
Compared to my other browsers Safari 4 is by far the fastest.