I just noticed that even after a week I haven’t given up on Safari or even considered going back to Firefox. How has your experience compared?
One thing I really enjoy right now is the ability to pull tabs out of the line-up but I could only really like it after I moved the damn tabs under the browser bar and off the top. Safari is definitely faster on my Air which has horrible Internet connectivity in the first place, so that’s nice.
No, I’m sticking to Camino. And flock.
I went back to FF as I kept getting this odd denial when trying to get to Gmail. Happened before Safari 4, however; yet searching turned up no solution. Ah well…
Definitely appreciate the enhanced speed, but I’ve found the tabs to be annoyingly unresponsive. Sometimes I have to click on a tab a couple of times before Safari will switch over to it, and this often results in inadvertently minimizing the entire window.
Still using it and will be for sometime. I’m enjoying the speed boost and though I’ve read about a lot of hate directed towards those tab bars, I don’t really mind them.
Went back to FF. I like the way it handles RSS feed bookmarks, even tho there are probably three million better ways to deal with ‘em. I’m just used to the FF Live Bookmark thing, I guess.
safari 4 is really cool.
I use Safari for managing my blogs. I switched back to v3 because v4 isn’t compatible with Wordpress’s AJAX UI – in particular the darkened overlay & panel window. Those don’t respond and I have had to force quit. I’m sure they’ll be fixed for final release (or WP v2.7.2?)
I agree with Blogger here. Safari 4 doesn’t seem to support Wordpress’ UI. It freezes mid-way between switching from the light to dark feature every time I try to add a hyperlink to text. If it wasn’t for that flaw, Safari 4 would be my default browser.
still using it, as it’s faster on my old iBook G4 PPC, I enjoy FF, but it’s a real mem hog on this machine and does not allow me to multitask very well (being a designer). With Safari 4, I can have at least PS and DW open to design while I surf or research. ;)
I wish chrome would come out for PPC, as it works nice and quick on my PCs at home, so I’d expect/hope it’d work the same on me PPC (quick and light).
Safari 4 is the best browser I have ever used!
safari 4 = nice try…the intentions were there, back using v3
I liked the tabs on top. Gives me more screen area.
Has taken awhile to get accustomed to the little “grab” in the corner of the tabs.
Nope…still too many bugs. Tried using the embed functionality on Vimeo and it broke in Safari 4. I just don’t have time to deal with basic rendering problems like that during a busy day.
It’s a fun distraction but Firefox is definitely the power browser I use on a daily basis.
FoxMarks extension allows me to sync all bookmarks across computers. Developer tools rock. Not sure I’ll ever leave…
” is the ability to pull tabs out of the line-up”
Safari 3 could already do that??? Unless I am misunderstanding what you meant by that?
I went back to firefox, I would still be using it but hotmail never works with beta browsers, at least the ones I tried (Firefox b2, and safari 4)
how’s facebook speed with safari doing?
We’re supposed to value the opinion of someone who uses an Air?
I refuse to use Safari because I can’t force open-new-window links to open in a new tab instead. This is especially an issue when I try to use the “v” keyboard shortcut to open the selected item in a new tab in Google Reader. In Firefox it opens in a new tab (as it should) but in Safari it opens a new window which gets terribly messy when trying to open a bunch of items from Google Reader.
I will never again use a beta anything after having Safari 4 Beta destroy my bookmarks and make me feeling like I’m dealing with the Windows register. Somehow, I managed to get back to Safari 3, which I rather like–maybe 4 will work out the bugs. As for Firefox, no no no no no. It sucks. It makes me long for Internet Explorer. It CRAWLS. You have to get the stupid plugins out of the thing for it to be even bearable.
Hi guys — if you feel the need to back out of Safari 4 beta, then here’s how to do so:
http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-back-out-of-safari-4beta/
Cheers,
Mark
Poll results… Safari still doing well!
I went back to Firefox because Apple removed the option to put the refresh button where *I* want it, which is next to all the other navigation buttons. The position of the refresh button has always been a user option before, so why take it away from the user now? Doesn’t make any sense.