Comments on: What You Must Know About the New Safari 4 Beta

By: Tycho

Tycho — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:10:28 +0000

I Agree with Jools!

You’d think Web Developers of all people should know these things!

Here guys, have a handy Link to tell you more about the User Agent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

By: Tycho

Tycho — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:55:41 +0000

The Web inspector feature was actually available in Safari 3.2 if anyone remembers that, and yes you could turn the development menu through the preferences. It was available Before Google Chrome was resleased

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:45:28 +0000

I know what you mean… I’d like to move to Safari, but I have a lot of extensions that are just too invaluable. I use Firebug, ColorZilla, MeasureIt, Web Developer, and a few others very frequently.

I wish the WebKit and Mozilla projects would get together and create an open browser extension standard that could work across both…

Oh, and I don’t like that you have to drag tabs by the little “handle” in Safari. I reorder my tabs more than I drag my browser around…

By: Dabbler

Dabbler — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:28:24 +0000

it’s wicked fast. but I can’t figure out how to add a URL to Google Bookmars (no extension, no bookmarklet). And I can’t use Roboform with it to fill in passwords. Until Safari supports and has a following of extensions FireFox is still the top dog.

By: Lord Gabriel

Lord Gabriel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:45:43 +0000

Oh yeah

I can tell you it’s good. I’m being enjoy more the Apple…

Yeah, it’s BETA and has some bugs, but I hope it will be repaired ^^

Well, I loved Safari 4 Beta!

And good article!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:53:15 +0000

For you hack-inclined users, there’s a way to get more control of your Top Sites by editing a .plist file. http://www.mactropolis.com/how-tos/how-to-edit-safari-4-beta-top-sites/

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:30:15 +0000

That’s stange… I didn’t have any problems with GMail. I didn’t try Hotmail, but GMail worked flawlessly for me.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:28:30 +0000

You could get a copy of Codeweavers’ Crossover Mac software. It’s a variant of WinE, and it can run IE6 and IE7 well enough for testing web pages.

Crossover isn’t free, but it’s a lot cheaper than a copy of Windows,

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:59:37 +0000

@redwall_hp

“You can thank Microsoft for things not being that way. We have standards, and most of the browsers follow them, at least close enough to not have major issues. It’s IE that’s really broken.”

Here here!! So true.

By: Steve Apex

Steve Apex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:12:21 +0000

If you set your homepage to “topsites://” it will launch your topsites on launch. I find that to be really handy because I use it as a springboard to my favorite places.