[liquidmetal]

Hmm the reading list is nice, but they missed out on allowing 'cmd+click' link/item in the reading list to auto open it in a new tab. So instead one might have to use Control+click and then select from the drop down.

Not a big deal, but cmd+clicking in the reading list would make it uniform throughout!!

[Matto9z6]

I want to like Safari but there's always something that sends me back to Firefox sooner or later. This time around it's the crazy memory usage that just seems to be going up and up and up and that's with only 3 or 4 tabs open.

[EnziguriX]

Never saw the use for Instapaper or Read It Later but I must admit, I've been using Reading List nonstop since installing Lion.

[ChrisCaines1j7]

Shon, on 21 July 2011 - 09:45 AM, said:

I've noticed it's very snappy... (I think Lion, overall, is very fast!) But, more importantly (at least so far) is the memory leak (or whatever was causing the issue) is gone! I always leave 10-15 tabs open all the time for sites I view constantly. I noticed in Snow Leopard, after time, Safari would consumer upwards of 1.5 GB of RAM... Since installing yesterday, it remains hovered around 258 MB... Huge! Let's hope it stays that way!

That's because it has split it into a separate Safari web content fragment.
That being said, Safari does quit faster now with my 40 tabs.

[simon_w]

Showman, on 21 July 2011 - 08:50 AM, said:

One thing I hate about Safari in iOS and now in Lion is you need to type the .com when entering an address.

Why ???

I thought the idea was to make things easier not harder!

Believe it or not, that are a lot of sites that don't end in .com. I do find Safari adding .com if it can't find a domain and you haven't provided a TLD rather annoying.

jhall1343, on 21 July 2011 - 09:00 AM, said:

snappy os but a few problems with safari, major one in java support.

I had to install a Java runtime (prompted) then enable the Java plugin and restart Safari (again, prompted) and have had Java working fine.

j1h15233, on 21 July 2011 - 10:14 AM, said:

Safari is super glitchy for me. I went back to Firefox even though I can't zoom on anything there anymore.

Also, does anyone know if there's a way to get the old zoom back where you held control and swiped with two fingers? It's not only easier than the pinching motion but it worked on EVERYTHING. This new method does not.

System Preferences–≥Universal Access->Seeing->Zoom Options->Use scroll wheel with modifier key to zoom, just like where it's always been.

AlFeldzamen, on 21 July 2011 - 10:39 AM, said:

What about long-loved apps, like 1-Click Answers, that now will not function under LION? And will Firefox's add-ons, like ANSWERS (again), which gives definitions with a click over a word if the Option key is down, function under LION?

Al Feldzamen

Double tapping on a word with three fingers does that system wide. For other apps that no longer work, you'll need to wait for their developers to release updates.

[Matto9z6]

EnziguriX, on 21 July 2011 - 10:59 AM, said:

Never saw the use for Instapaper or Read It Later but I must admit, I've been using Reading List nonstop since installing Lion.

The real strength of Instapaper is if you have an iPhone/iPad for reading offline content and having it synchronised across your devices. While Reading List is effectively standalone (until iOS5 arrives I guess) then it's not a patch on Instapaper but I will look again once iOS syncing exists.

[kranbollin]

Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard must be the red-haired stepchild. Cannot enable private browsing; an error message is displayed for about 0.1 secs and can't be read. Move a button into the toolbar and you just get a blank space. Site passwords that were stored in 5.05 are no longer present. Some web pages are displayed as white space. I would move to Firefox, but it's import bookmarks function is disabled (#@!). Can't move to Lion until I find a replacement for Quicken 2007.

[johndrake]

kranbollin, on 21 July 2011 - 12:28 PM, said:

Can't move to Lion until I find a replacement for Quicken 2007.

I keep a version of Leopard on an external bootable drive for things like Quicken, among other thing, such as drivers for our scanners that lost support from vendor in Snow Leopard.
I now it sounds a bit clunky but restarting is not such a big deal, usually wait until the list is long so it doesn't happen often plus it gives me time to get an ice tea, or beer depending on the time of day.

This post has been edited by johndrake: 21 July 2011 - 12:42 PM

[j1h15233]

j1h15233, on 21 July 2011 - 10:14 AM, said:

Safari is super glitchy for me. I went back to Firefox even though I can't zoom on anything there anymore.

Also, does anyone know if there's a way to get the old zoom back where you held control and swiped with two fingers? It's not only easier than the pinching motion but it worked on EVERYTHING. This new method does not.

AlFeldzamen, on 21 July 2011 - 10:39 AM, said:

System Preferences–≥Universal Access->Seeing->Zoom Options->Use scroll wheel with modifier key to zoom, just like where it's always been.

The only way this works is to have the zoom box enabled. In Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard, the screen would zoom in on the mouse like if you were magnifying a map on google. That's the zoom I want back.

[j1h15233]

j1h15233, on 21 July 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

j1h15233, on 21 July 2011 - 10:14 AM, said:

Safari is super glitchy for me. I went back to Firefox even though I can't zoom on anything there anymore.

Also, does anyone know if there's a way to get the old zoom back where you held control and swiped with two fingers? It's not only easier than the pinching motion but it worked on EVERYTHING. This new method does not.

AlFeldzamen, on 21 July 2011 - 10:39 AM, said:

System Preferences–≥Universal Access->Seeing->Zoom Options->Use scroll wheel with modifier key to zoom, just like where it's always been.

The only way this works is to have the zoom box enabled. In Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard, the screen would zoom in on the mouse like if you were magnifying a map on google. That's the zoom I want back.

I sort of got it back to the way it was now. I had to enlarge the zoom box to fit the entire screen. Now I can zoom in anywhere like before but it's certainly not as smooth. I guess it'll have to do for now.

[d00d]

AlFeldzamen, on 21 July 2011 - 10:39 AM, said:

What about long-loved apps, like 1-Click Answers, that now will not function under LION? And will Firefox's add-ons, like ANSWERS (again), which gives definitions with a click over a word if the Option key is down, function under LION?

*shrug* I've always used the built-in command-control-d dictionary lookup which works everywhere.

[bvl1]

Not true.
I type cnn and Safari goes right to cnn.com

And it works on an iPad too.

This ability is a function of your ISP's DNS server. If it doesn't work, someone is to blame...but its not Apple.

Showman, on 21 July 2011 - 08:50 AM, said:

One thing I hate about Safari in iOS and now in Lion is you need to type the .com when entering an address.

Why ???

I thought the idea was to make things easier not harder!

[Expobill]

ya figure we would know by the 7th OS that the esc button returns us from full screen....NOPE!

[tobymccannfj8f]

This OS X update has more impact in the shortest amount of time than any other release; I have been using OS X since Panther. Safari is no exception. Part of my enthusiasm for Safari has been Chrome's incompatibilities with Lion since its release. Although I will cut Google some slack, the time spent in Safari since the update has been great. I am looking forward to Apple's iCloud update in the Fall to see if the syncing features already present in Chrome can compare, but so far Safari seems much more fluid, efficient and quicker.