The best spot is near the location field, because that tends to be where your eyes are when a page starts loading. It’s important to know whether a page has finished loading yet, and so a browser’s progress indicator deserves a prominent spot. The truth is that page loading is the slowest and most unpleasant aspect of using a web browser. I was wrong, and whoever designed this for Safari was right.
Over time, the feature has not just grown on me, but I’ve come to appreciate the cleverness of its design. Back in January 2003 when Apple released the first public beta of Safari 1.0, I described this feature as follows: 1 Page Load Progress Indicator - Every time I dally withĪnother browser, I immediately miss Safari’s Whereas in Firefox you’ve got to open the History window. You can get more done right from the menu in Safari, What Safari does is list the 20 most recently loaded URLs,įollowed by sub-menus for each of the last seven days.įirefox only lists the 10 most recent URLs in the History History - I like Safari’s hierarchical History menu. This means you can type “foo” to match the URL “/foo/”. For example, when matching what you’ve typed against the URLs in your bookmarks and history, it looks anywhere within the URLs, not just at the beginning as Safari does. In Firefox’s favor, its new location field does some very cool things
In Safari Tab moves the focus to the Search field, as it should. Also, in Firefox, during auto-completion, the Tab key acts like Down Arrow - it selects the next suggestion in the auto-completion list. It might just be habit, but it feels to me like Safari’s auto-completion works a little better. In Safari you can just use Return to accept the first suggestion. Place, double-click to select - just like any other textĪuto-completion in Firefox requires the use of the Down Arrow key to select something from the list of suggestions. Wanted to select the entire URL, I’d double-click. Mouse in the middle of a URL, I just want to place the Location Field - The new Firefox 3 location field, the Related tabs together in their own window. Know, but I use this feature in Safari every day to group Within a window, and drag tabs between windows, but itĭoesn’t let you drag a tab out of a window to create a new Tabs - Firefox 3 does let you drag to reorder tabs Safari does, and I use this all the time for invoking textįilters I’ve made using ThisService, and for sending theĬurrent text selection to LaunchBar as input. Services - Firefox doesn’t support the Services menu. The mouse over any word and use Command-Control-D (byĭefault) to display the definition of that word right there In Safari (and most other apps), you can hover Move the insertion point to the beginning and end of theĭictionary - Firefox doesn’t support the system-wideĭictionary. In a one-line text field, the Up and Down Arrow keys should
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Text Editing Shortcuts - Firefox 3 still doesn’t supportĬertain standard Mac text editing key bindings. “active” look even when in the background.
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That ugly thing? - was that its windows barely changedĪppearance when switching from active to inactive.)įirefox 3 doesn’t do this. Regarding the late brushed metal theme - Christ, remember The idea is that with several windows visibleĪt once, giving the active one a darker look makes it easier Medium gray color while all other windows have a lighter,įlatter look. Rule: the frontmost window of the current application gets a Standard application windows follow a simple, consistent The main issues that drove me back to Safari:īackground Window Appearance - Starting with Leopard, Firefox 3’s shortcomings as a Mac app are behavioral, too. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like.Īnd that’s just it.
Handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we People think it’s this veneer - that the designers are “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks Steve Jobs, in a 2003 New York Times magazine interview, said: The Safari-style “GrApple” Firefox themes I linked to last month makes Firefox 3 look even better, albeit mostly by mimicking Safari.īut cosmetic appeal is just the surface. The new default theme for Firefox theme looks pretty good, especially when you switch the toolbar icons to the small size. Unsurprisingly, it’s the interface that drove me back.īut I’m not talking about cosmetic issues - or at least not only about cosmetic issues. Safari 3 Saturday, 5 April 2008Īfter a few weeks in the arms of Firefox 3 betas, I’ve returned to Safari as my daily browser.
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