[TAllenSr]

Wow...you really felt the need to point that out, huh? I listed the primary things that it does zoom, because they are zoom-able by "inserting" CSS for display purposes. That is what Safari is doing...just like with the new developer tools. So yes, Flash, Movies, SilverLight, Uncle Fred's Custom Browser Plug-In, and anything else that is not part of the "HTML/CSS/XHTML" DOM is NOT ZOOMABLE. Happy?
You can now return to picking pepper flakes out of nat poo.

[MacTechAspen]

spinoza2 said:

The Safari pop-up blocker is not as strong as others: go to www.macdailynews.com , and you can see how Safari is not able to stop the blocker there.

Hmm, with or without pop-ups blocked I don't get any there.

I do get the floating ad (again, Ajax and Web 2.0 devices) when hovering over some ad related links. These are not really pop-ups, but I don't disagree that it would be nice if Safari blocked them.

Have any of you ever surfed the web on a Windows machine? In a few minutes you end up with a handful of separate browser pages, usually hidden behind your your main page until you close it. These pop-ups usually are ad related and can add up at an alarming rate.

Safari seems to do a fine job of blocking that sort of behavior. I can't comment on how it compares to other mac browsers though, as I rarely have need to use them anymore.

[AppleHead]

I agree with those who are asking that the SnapBack and progress bar be reinstated. The only advantage I can see with the current progress dial is that if you were loading several pages at once, you'd at least know which had loaded and which had not as there could be more than one progress dial twirling at a time. Maybe each one could have a blue bar over it?

[web]

Haven't put it on my PPC PowerBook with Tiger, but I'm wondering if they improved the AppleScript support. Specifically, is there a busy status indicator for windows that are not done loading?

- web

[montgomery_burns]

Safari is still missing the ability to create a whitelist for alllowing popups on certain sites or domains. Some pages require popups in order to work correctly, and Safari's current all-or-nothing approach is not helpful. The same goes with Javascript. I want the ability to block certain actions such as moving or resizing windows, hiding the toolbar and status bar. But again, Safari requires Javascript to be either completely on or completely off.

[pandian]

I agree about that. I have suffered those absurdities at some times. If you compare Camino on Mac Os with Safari, the story is somewhat different. Camino comes across squeaky clean compared with Safari 4.0. So, Obviously it is feasible!!

[pandian]

I have notices three types of moving boxes as ads. One is a banner across the top of the page with components that move. Second are boxes on either side of the page of interest with items within them moving. These could be as large as half the height of the page with large images moving and fading in and then out. Some of these boxes have images of scantily clad women in unbelievable state physical movement, and other boxes have texts that change size, color and shape. It is obvious why these things move. The final category are with text hypertexts when the cursor goes near produce small pop-up boxes with ads. I have seen all these within Safari 4.0, but not within Camino over the last few iterations.

[Damn_Its_Hot]

Snapback has been moved to the Search dialog and only pops up when you diverge due to a Search (like google). I sort of liked the old ability to add Snapback points along the way (sort of temp bookmarks) but alas they removed them. I think they should add (back) the ability to set a Snapback via menu/key cmd.

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[Steve_S]

Nathan Alderman suggests that Safari is the fastest browser on the Mac. My question is why the "on the Mac" qualifier is used. Is there a PC or Linux only browser that performs better that we should know about? Or, was this just the safest claim to make?
While each browser does offer something unique, overall, I find Safari to be the best. It's now my default on both Windows and the Mac.

[larrybic]

Camino used to be my default browser and it still functions quite well. But now that Safari 3.0.1 seems to one-up Camino on most everything except for app size and app launch speed, one might ask: is there any place for Camino anymore?

[MooseMats]

Sounds like a GREAT idea. How do I do this?

[reevescajr]

Safari 4 failed one test, the USPS' Click-n-Ship, when it tried to display the label using Preview (a PDF servlet). I just downloaded the Take Control book on Safari 4, so hopefully it will give me some things to try. I suspect if it was using Adobe's Acrobat Reader, it might work (it worked in Safari 3), but I had some problems with it in the plug-ins folder, so took it out.

[Kayaker]

You can do this for every multilingual application. In the Finder, Get Info on the application, and from the Languages section select the languages to be deleted and click the button to delete.

If you search on MacUpdate you'll find programs that will do it for you for all applications at once.

[dtarr]

Kayaker said:

You can do this for every multilingual application. In the Finder, Get Info on the application, and from the Languages section select the languages to be deleted and click the button to delete.

If you search on MacUpdate you'll find programs that will do it for you for all applications at once.

Thanks a bunch for this information.