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The Secrets of Safari 3

macosxtips.co.uk — A selection of tips for Safari 3 beta aimed at the average Safari user as well as more experienced users. Includes undocumented features that can be enabled through the Terminal such as the Web Inspector and the pie chart progress indicator. Also explains some more well known features such as merging windows and bookmarking all open tabs.

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  • totorototoro, on 10/17/2007, -2/+14Here's one secret: The RSS feeder on Safari 3.02 Beta for Windows is completely ***** up.
    Works fine on the Mac version, however.
    • KAMiKAZOW, on 10/17/2007, -3/+4The current build for Windows is 3.0.4 (not public -- available on connect.apple.com or demonoid)
    • h2d2, on 10/18/2007, -1/+4Sorry, I forgot Safari was available for Windows... just like I forgot there was an "Apple TV"...
      • nonokiaboy, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2So I guess you really forgot about the Apple HiFi Stereo
    • newAccount, on 10/19/2007, -7/+0we have a webserver at work that I manage, and every log entry with safari as the agent errors out trying to fetch "picsofdicks.html". Is that all you mac users look for?
  • WiseWeasel, on 10/19/2007, -12/+8Don't spam my shouts please, mattswain123. Buried!

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    • maverickeye, on 10/17/2007, -2/+5nice
    • Markpdotcom, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3I'm guess you're getting dug down by people who haven't seen the bright yellow New Shouts icon at the top of the page, or they have no friends. I have to say that I am sick of them already. No, I don't want to digg your ***** spam story, go away!
  • frozenpxl, on 10/17/2007, -2/+3Oh yeah, I heard about this! 6 months ago.
  • christianjb, on 10/21/2007, -3/+13Whoop de doop.

    Safari 3 was out months ago. By now I think we've all realized we can move the tabs around.
  • JohnnyKdiggs, on 10/19/2007, -15/+5The number one secret: It can only load pages approved by Apple. We're still waiting for a jailbreak.
  • tony23, on 10/17/2007, -7/+3down @ 67
  • omnivector, on 10/21/2007, -1/+9The #1 "hidden" feature of Safari 3, in my opinion, is the new "Restore All Windows From Last Session" menu item under the History menu. This will restore all opened windows/tabs for you if your browser crashes. VERY useful!
    • grouchyman, on 10/21/2007, -6/+5Same with Firefox.
      • ravage86, on 10/21/2007, -2/+5What's Firefox? You're confused, this is a thread about Safari.
      • BinaryFragger, on 10/21/2007, -3/+6So does Opera.
        Neat feature but seems like every browser has it (except IE, of course).
    • sexybobo, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1I love that feature does it fill in all the forms you previously had filled in b4 your browser froze like Firefox does? That has saved me many times when i spend 15 minutes writing an email and then laptop turns off from low battery.
    • M4cb0y, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1If you use the SafariStand extension it'll automatically restore them for you too.
  • rheaume, on 10/21/2007, -1/+32Take lots of pictures, don't get out of the car when lions are around, etc
  • HenkPoley, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2Already bogged down, better use the Coral cache: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk.nyud.net/index_files/t ...
  • nicku, on 10/17/2007, -13/+7Just install Firefox, its not worth it.
    • fowleryo, on 10/17/2007, -3/+3i'd rather have safari with all it's problems than use firefox. camino on the other hand...
    • ravage86, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5Firefox is slow as ***** on a mac. I love firefox on Windows, but it's the worst program I've ever put on my mac.
      • spectre_25gt, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1I agree with you. If it wasn't for all of the extensions I use, I'd be using Safari without question.
    • beerbarron, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Safari renders pages much much faster, although I dont like how safari handles bookmarks :( I wish they developed the google toolbar for safari :D
  • fowleryo, on 10/18/2007, -7/+5my favorite feature of both safari and mail.app (in leopard) is that Apple disabled all third party plugins.
    thanks Apple!
  • lickmyback, on 10/18/2007, -10/+5But first you have to teach the Mac user to use a terminal. Buried as unfeasible.
    • sexybobo, on 10/17/2007, -1/+1I thought the reason people hated linux was you had to copy and past thing in to the command line some times. Then i see this i am so confused.
      • spectre_25gt, on 10/18/2007, -2/+2Anything that requires you to get into the terminal in OS X is either focused towards administrators only or is not a finished feature.
  • wdhow, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2web inspector feature is pretty cool, but needs a bit more flexibility to steer me away from firefox/firebug.

    can't wait, because i'm not a big fan of firefox due to system spec contraints.
    • billydisaster, on 10/18/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I'm into that web inspector thing. Is there a tool which will tell you which CSS rules are being applied to your elements (divs etc)? That would save a whole load of time debugging CSS.
      • parsap, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2That's what the inspector does.
        • billydisaster, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1I can see it tells you which properties are applied after all rules have been processed, like it tells you the margin, padding, etc. but does it tell you which specific lines of css code are being applied to each element?
          • billydisaster, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1I'm gonna answer my own question. The Web Developer Toolbar does exactly what I need. From the CSS menu. I've been using it for ages and never realised it could do that. Smacks head.
  • joerod, on 10/18/2007, -2/+4how about letting me search different search engines from the search bar, and opening it up for more 3rd party apps. oh wait, that would make it firefox
    • zongamin, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1How about you install Inquisitor or Acid Search that let you do exactly that???
  • FredFredrickson, on 10/19/2007, -8/+2The next big thing for Safari: Implementing ActiveX!
  • secretmode, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Best Mac news in a while. Rest are all news that mac fans knew already.
  • stutimandal, on 10/18/2007, -4/+1The best feature of Safari ...

    * Start Safari on Windows XP (service packed 2) with one more browser in quick succession. And wait. Wow it hangs and you are forced to do an end-program.
    • spectre_25gt, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4Best feature of annoying wannabe geeks:

      * Use beta software until it breaks on you. Bitch on public boards and annoy anyone that has a clue.
  • BillyK, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2http://www.culater.net/thc/index.php?category=/Dev ...
    Pith Helmet for Safari 3.0. Don't surf without it.
  • iNunchuk, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Until Safari allows full integration w/ all the google apps, I hate it.
    What kind of company has a Google Director sitting on its BOD and yet not push Google to do anything about the state of its apps in Webkit?
  • macgecko, on 10/18/2007, -1/+0Too bad you have to use Terminal to turn some of those options on. OMG is all I have to say to FredFredrickson what are you thinking ActiveX so your Mac can experience all the problems of Windows users? No thanks!
  • Nitroadict, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1Safari for windows is a death trap; however, this newer browser called Swift is making some steady progress & a 1.0 release is almost ready:

    http://www.swift.ws/index.php
    • northernmunky, on 10/20/2007, -1/+1NO NO NO SERIOUSLY NO! I took one look at that website and it looks like it designed by monkeys... the site is unprofessional, the screenshots are on some WindowsXP machine with all their geek crap behind it and the browser looks like what IE would have looked like the day the internet was spawned.

      That and one of their main links goes to a login page for the film 'A Bugs Life'!

      Compare that with my current browser of choice: http://www.flock.com
      See a difference?
      • Nitroadict, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Yeah uh the guy who made the site (and browser) is *autistic*; also, Swift hasn't been launched offically yet, I highly doubt it'll look lilke that when release comes (besides the page is on his personal site anyways). And btw, Flock is web2.0 nonsense, there is little difference between Flock's & Firefox's rendering engines. Swift utilizes the QtWebkit, making it a better alternative to Safari (security wise) & and a better alternative for a KHTML like browser for css nuts to test in :p.
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