Comments on: Safari 4 Sees Huge Demand, 11 Million Downloads So Far

By: best free software

best free software — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:51:50 +0000

Safari looks great but is still a not very well promoted browser.

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:38:09 +0000

Regarding top tabs, it’s unusual for Apple to suddenly retreat from a change in the user interface. It often takes years of bitter complaint for that, see: BRUSHED METAL. The fact that top tabs was introduced and discarded so quickly suggest to me that there was massive negative feedback, so I think it unlikely you’ll see a return of top tabs.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:40:26 +0000

In my personal experience on my Mac, Firefox is a dog compared to Safari 4 beta, so I’ll stick with Safari for now. I’m enjoying the new features like Top Sites. Unfortunately, I’m also enjoying the tabs on top in the beta, so I WON’T be upgrading to the official Safari 4 release unless they add that feature back.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:24:56 +0000

@Ted – middle click the link – like Firefox – and Safari will open a link in a new tab too.

By: Lara Croft

Lara Croft — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:48:20 +0000

I tried Safari 4 on Vista and while it does seem snappier than FireFox, it also chews up a lot more memory for my 80-tab test, almost 25% more memory. I also noticed that the Safari keeps the CPU busy (some times more than 50% CPU utilization) while FireFox doesn’t. Probably some background task (indexing?) that I haven’t learned about yet. Safari also keeps doing I/O writes when I’m not even surfing (and there isn’t any streaming media on any of the pages, either). I don’t know what it’s doing, but looks strange.

Using my 80-tab test, I see that 14 tabs are displayed, 13 first tabs plus whatever tab you’re viewing that comes after the 13th. So, if I’m viewing the 75th tab, then the tabs shown are #1 … #13 and then #75. Is there a way to set it up so that the tabs can be scrolled like in FireFox?

I’m turning off my Safari 4 now and going back to FireFox, at least until I understand what those I/O writes are.

By: AppleHater

AppleHater — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:46:16 +0000

in reality safari has not been downloaded 11million times. itunes has and because they trick you into piggyback download safari well the numbers are…

By: Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia

Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:15:27 +0000

[...] 4 is popular – it’s been downloaded 11 million times already, with over half of those being Windows [...]

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:20:17 +0000

People are visuals creatures, and for that reason I like Top Sites. I know when my favorite comics update, a few blogs I read, and what the headline picture for a few news sites. I suppose I could put those sites in the BookMark Bar, assuming they have feeds, but then I have to click on the feed to get to the website. I also like see what I’m looking at lately, my own person zeitgeist in 24 websites or less.

By: frd75

frd75 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:42:25 +0000

2 points. Iusing safarito download fire fox, Igot 6+kips. I stopped and tried Camino and got over 600kips.????

Top sites is a just the kind of thing nobody really needs.Why have a special tool bookmark button to show you a sample when you can click a link in the bookmarks bar and see the whole sight.

More eye candy

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:00:53 +0000

Real impressive. They pushed it out as an upgrade.

By: Allister

Allister — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:26:35 +0000

Mike, when you’ve got 40+ tabs open including WordPress blogs you need to post to and you are downloading lots of files and you want control over those, then you’re better off running FF3. It’s no slower than Safari in the real world. After all, just about any browser can render a page faster than your internet connection can download it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:12:11 +0000

Why would anyone run Firefox on a Mac?. It is SO slow that it is almost criminal!. Now the Inspector is activated, Safari is my main dog.

By: vasilis

vasilis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:04:20 +0000

@AJ just press control+tab

By: Allister

Allister — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:52:22 +0000

Would not Software Update be a very big reason for the high number of downloads on the Mac side?

By: Joeypk07

Joeypk07 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:21:51 +0000

Ted, using them Mighty Mouse I like to set the scroll ball button as button 3 under my mouse prefs and that will also accomplish the same thing. That way I can open the link as a new tab with just the mouse. This requires that the (command-click) option be selected under the tabs preference in safari. To that end you can also open the link in a new window by holding down the option key when clicking with the scroll ball. Or if you don’t have a mighty mouse command-option and clicking. I find that I don’t always want something opened in a new window and I don’t always want something in a new tab so you have the option for all without the gyrations that you’re suggesting.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:34:09 +0000

I’d be interested in giving Safari another try, but I’ve gotten hooked on all of the nifty shortcuts I’ve got set up in Firefox — extensions for del.icio.us saves and the like, using keywords to pull up a site, etc. — and I don’t know how to duplicate all of that with Safari.