[Macworld]

Post your comments for Safari 6 a slight but sleek upgrade for Apple's browser here

[Jean-PaulRobertson]

What I miss... is the Orange "Return-to-your-search" button. That was a great button. I guess that was a Plus for having the search bar. You can dig into a site, hit the orange button, and you're back to your search. Guess there are other ways around that... like opening new links in tabs... But that could make the tabs messy. Couldn't they have made an orange button like the Print or Home button? I like the new safari... In Lion. It works for my needs.

[kirkmc]

"it grew teeth-grindingly sluggish when loading or navigating multiple tabs"

I've seen a number of people complain about this, but I've never had problems, with at least a half-dozen tabs, and often a dozen. I've wondered if there were some other issue involved. For example, both my Macs have SSDs; could that speed things up, reading from the disk cache more quickly? Also, I regulary delete Safari's cache; maybe that's a factor.

I'm not denying anyone's speed problems, but I'm wondering what variables make it such that some people had these problems and others didn't.

[redgeminipa]

 kirkmc, on 09 August 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

"it grew teeth-grindingly sluggish when loading or navigating multiple tabs"

I've seen a number of people complain about this, but I've never had problems, with at least a half-dozen tabs, and often a dozen. I've wondered if there were some other issue involved. For example, both my Macs have SSDs; could that speed things up, reading from the disk cache more quickly? Also, I regulary delete Safari's cache; maybe that's a factor.

I'm not denying anyone's speed problems, but I'm wondering what variables make it such that some people had these problems and others didn't.

I can't recall any speed problems on Lion. I've actually had more instances under Mountain Lion in regards to page loading in Safari.

[motley]

Personally, I'm not as overjoyed with this "upgrade" as Mr. Alderman seems to be. I liked having the search bar with it's easy access to my search history separate from the URL bar. I also preferred the more open access to web developer tools in the old Safari and of course the notifications to my RSS feeds like Macworld's. I can tell you that I don't follow my old news feeds nearly as closely as I did a couple of weeks ago. The developer tools and the RSS feed access where two major features that kept me a loyal Safari user. Now that RSS has been removed and I don't have the access to the same developer tools, I'm not sure if there are any advantages for me to use Safari over Chrome or Firefox as my primary browser.

[AntonioOcana]

I own a MacBookPro 13 inches purchased two years ago. I was running Lion and updated to Mountain Lion and since the update my Safari crashes continuously and the experience is very poor as it is also very slow. The crashes are really irritating and happens several times every day.

[nathdeparis]

 motley, on 09 August 2012 - 04:57 AM, said:

Personally, I'm not as overjoyed with this "upgrade" as Mr. Alderman seems to be. I liked having the search bar with it's easy access to my search history separate from the URL bar. I also preferred the more open access to web developer tools in the old Safari and of course the notifications to my RSS feeds like Macworld's. I can tell you that I don't follow my old news feeds nearly as closely as I did a couple of weeks ago. The developer tools and the RSS feed access where two major features that kept me a loyal Safari user. Now that RSS has been removed and I don't have the access to the same developer tools, I'm not sure if there are any advantages for me to use Safari over Chrome or Firefox as my primary browser.

I agree, I really do not like the so called unified toolbar (by the way.... a hack to restaure the good old behaviour would be more than welcome) and I miss the RSS.
I'm going to use Omniweb as my main browser.

[chrismiller262]

"Like Firefox (), Safari has consolidated URLs and searches in a single bar at the top of the screen."

I believe you were referring to Chrome. Firefox still uses separate URL and search boxes.

[fjpoblam]

Unfortunately, my experience with Safari on Mountain Lion hasn't been quite as positive as yours. (FWIW I've checked with friends and they've echoed these, and I've seen them reported various places online, e.g. applediscussions, so they're not fully imaginary.) Lots of bouncing balls and crashes through the day. Consistently, this. At daily startup (after my daily system boot) Safari starts with a blank screen and the prompt "Enter URL or search terms". This is in spite of the fact that I have specified, in Preferences, new windows are to be opened with my "Home" page. Further, at that point, the "Home" icon on the Tool bar must be selected at least three times before a response appears. (Thereafter, once Safari is running, selection of File= = > Open new Safari Window yields the correct response: a new window in which the "Home" URL is pre-loaded.) All this behavior did *not* occur in previous versions of Safari. Also, for us, Safari "feels" slower.

[totaji]

I'm liking it. I have a quick question though.

When you do a Secondary Tap on a link, you are given an option to open the link in a new tab, which is cool. The problem is, if I highlight regular text and then Secondary Tap it, I can copy the term/name/etc. in a new tab search or I can use a Google search in the same tab I am highlighting the text. Is there way to set the Google search to automatically start in a new tab?

[ObiWandreas]

With the old toolbar, I could type in the name of a website and have the "www" and ".com" automatically inserted to take me straight to the website.  Now, it obnoxiously performs a search.  The only saving grace is that I can save a year's worth of history, so this annoyance happens less often.

What really annoys me is the loss of the Activity Viewer window.  It was invaluable for downloading cached videos on webpages so that I could save them or watch them in QuickTime Player 7, instead of having to rely on clunky web interfaces.  Now, it simply takes you to developer tools which do not have the same level of utility in this regard.

Also, I have found Safari 6 to be much less capable of blocking pop-up windows.  Websites that never bugged me before are giving me the dreaded pop-unders left and right since the 'upgrade'.

Add into the mix the PITA of having to configure a separate RSS app, and what we have is simply a program which is much faster at doing things I don't want it to do.

[JohnOg2r0]

GAWDawful

Removing the separate search bar is NIOT an upgrade it is the removal of a function.

[MacTechAspen]

I will add my voice of disent by saying that I HATE the unified search bar. Already it has gotten in the way of trying to type in URLs by auto completing something unrelated. I honestly can not see what the advantage is. Why was having a separate search bar an issue? Sure Firefox did it that way, but if I wanted Firefox, I would use Firefox. Seems like an attempt to fix what ain't broke!

[MacTechAspen]

 Jean-PaulRobertson, on 09 August 2012 - 04:02 AM, said:

What I miss... is the Orange "Return-to-your-search" button. That was a great button. I guess that was a Plus for having the search bar. You can dig into a site, hit the orange button, and you're back to your search. Guess there are other ways around that... like opening new links in tabs... But that could make the tabs messy. Couldn't they have made an orange button like the Print or Home button? I like the new safari... In Lion. It works for my needs.

Yep, I miss that little jump back button too. Especially because the back button now does not always seem to take me back to the search.