Comments on: Leopard wish list – Part one: Safari

By: john

john — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:14:51 +0000

Missing Safari features:

1. THE BIGGEST GRIPE – no option to leave PRivate Browsing on permanently – WHY!!!!!!! (and don’t give me the ‘conscious decision’ rubbish – I want to make a conscious decision to leave private browsing on.
2. No ability to change the proxy settings independently of the underlying OS (unlike every other browser). Again – why.
3. Bonjour!!!!!
4. No full-screen/Kiosk mode. I use a netbook and wnat to browse using the whole page (with no title bars at all). Is a real full-screen option too hard to give me

Unfortunately, even though Safari is the nicest browser to use, I will have to stick with Firefox (or even Opera) instead.

PS. If Apple think the private browser setting is a minority requirement they should do a search to see how many times people ask how to do it (and the only option seems to be scripts!)

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:52:22 +0000

Nathan: Wow. I've never seen that – thanks for bringing it out. This seems like a huge UI problem to me. Again, thanks.

By: Safari 3 on Leopard is almost as good as Camino | Colin Devroe

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By: Colin’s MacWorld 2007 wishes on The uber geeks

Colin’s MacWorld 2007 wishes on The uber geeks — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:26:28 +0000

[...] Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” will hopefully have some of the changes that I documented as my wishes for Leopard. Namely the changes I asked for in Safari, Mail, iChat, and the Finder. [...]

By: Daniel Nicolas

Daniel Nicolas — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:31:31 +0000

Colin: I think their small-ish userbase for Camino lets them think, “Oh we’ll just release it when it’s ready” sort of deals.

They’re always tinkering away at it of course. The nightlybuilds are hugely improved. =)

Anywho, nice list of things there.

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Colin D. Devroe » Leopard wish list - Part four: Finder — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:01:24 +0000

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By: Wish List di Leopard « Mac Blog

Wish List di Leopard « Mac Blog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:13:48 +0000

[...] Inizio con Safari il quale, secondo Colin, dovrebbe avere una nuova funzione, chiamata Bookmark keywords, per permettere di aggiungere parole chiave (tipo dei Tags) ai propri preferiti e un’altra, Searchable history, per permettere di effettuare ricerche all’interno della Cronologia. Le funzioni che invece, sempre secondo Colin, andrebbero migliorate sono l’icona degli Rss (a lui infatti non piace che rimanga sempre blu e presenti la scritta RSS anche quando magari Ã¨ stato rilevato un Atom), la possibilitÃ di settarlo come browser predefinito e Multiple feeds detection, vale a dire una opzione che dovrebbe permettere di rilevare nello stesso sito web tutti i Feed disponibili invece di uno solo. L’articolo su Safari termina con un’altra speranza, vale a dire quella di poter utilizzare gli editor WYSIWYG (presenti nella maggior parte delle applicazioni Web, come, per esempio, Wordpress) anche con questo browser che, molto spesso (l’avevo notato anche io) non li supporta. [...]

By: Colin D. Devroe » Leopard wish list - Part three: iChat

Colin D. Devroe » Leopard wish list - Part three: iChat — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:11:43 +0000

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By: Colin D. Devroe » Leopard wish list - Part two: Mail

Colin D. Devroe » Leopard wish list - Part two: Mail — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:43:59 +0000

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By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:48:12 +0000

Hey Sarah – about time you commented! Lurker! Yeah, I was happy to find that feature as well. I’m almost ready to jump back out of Firefox I think. Maybe. I think. Maybe.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:20:26 +0000

Wow, I hadn’t seen that history search function – I must remember that one … says she who visits, oh I don’t know, a gadzillion pages every day.

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Leopard wish list - Part one: Safari on The uber geeks — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:34:24 +0000

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By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:03:07 +0000

Nathan: Wow. I’ve never seen that – thanks for bringing it out. This seems like a huge UI problem to me. Again, thanks.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:12:17 +0000

I agree with all, but it is possible to search the history in the current release. You just goto the bookmarks screen and click on history. There is a search box at the bottom. It’s not intuitive, which is the bug.

By: josue

josue — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:30:48 +0000

Well said.

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:01:38 +0000

Shaun: Having tried Camino in the past I still can’t get myself to use it. Perhaps its the “update every year” mentality or – the fact that it doesn’t support extensions.

A small note about extensions in Firefox. I find it slightly ironic that I use Firefox extensions to help it bring Firefox’s features in accord with Safari’s. The features I require literally are so small, that I should just switch back if for nothing than the space and speed improvements. Something to think about.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:54:01 +0000

Wow, nice list. I am a Camino user myself. However, I do like Safari but wish it did not lack the features you listed above. Hopefully with the upgrade I’ll be able to use it once more.

Camino allows the Bookmark Keywords as well. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I just added some keywords to my favorite sites. Saves a bit of time there.

Also, Safari does not allow for the Gmail Chat which I use constantly. Firefox supports Gmail Chat as well, but it does not look too pretty.
So, for right now its Camino for me…