Note: This article is part one of a series I’m starting about various UI annoyances in Safari, OS X’s default browser. Don’t feel ripped off if this series isn’t too long — Safari is a pretty great browser.
Safari has been frustrating me recently. I use it because it’s a better browser than anything else out there, at least for me, but I have some gripes.
I really like how the Safari designers eliminated a need for a progress / loading bar at the bottom of the window. To replace this, they simply merged the Address Bar and the Loading Bar. But there’s another area that hasn’t been eliminated – the Status Bar. It’s necessary if you want to know where a link is going to take you, which I definitely do, so I have to leave the Status Bar on at all times.
But have a solution for this. When I hover over a link, just show me its destination in the Address bar.
I’ll show you what I mean.
When I’m just looking at a page, this is what I see in the address bar:

When I hover over a link, this is what I want to see:

Or, better yet, this:

This is what the whole process would look like:
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