Switching.

Switching.

I’ve switched. I’m now using Safari as my default web browser. And I’m loving it. Safari beta2 released just a few days ago finally opens requests from other applications in new tabs in the open window. Just set “Open links from applications:” to “in the current window” and enable tabs. This feature isn’t documented but it works awesome. Big thanks to Brent of NetNewsWire fame for the heads up.

This little program called Ch2Sf made getting my Chimera/Camino bookmarks into Safari a breeze. Things I like about Safari so far:

• Fast!
• Better use of the Mac OSX Keychain to store site usernames and passwords. (you have to turn this on): Lets you view/remove them from the preferences.
• Intuitive bookmarks manager: Lets you use cut, copy, and paste to move bookmarks around.
• Its really quite fast.
• SnapBack: Lets you mark a page and jump back to it. so you can follow and many links as you’d like and be able to jump right back. Use cmd-option-m to set the SnapBack mark.
• Using cmd-shift-left/right to cycle through tabs wraps around. If you are in the right-most tab, pressing cmd-shift-right will take you to the left-most tab.
• Pop-up blocking toggle and clear cache are both availble in the file menu.
• Spell checking in webpage text areas (it’s in the edit menu).
• Is crazily AppleScriptable. You can even access JavaScript DOM elements via AppleScript. Whee!
• Very much fast.

Now if you’ll excuse me. I have many many bookmarks to finally get around to sorting.

Oh, and congrats to Jon who did the real switch and took back is compaq laptop to get one of these.

Xian 03:38 AM, 04.17.03 - p-link