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Bleeding ass Christ, I *hate* Safari!

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The Take Out Bandit

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Come on Apple, were you just using IE as the standard with which to design your browser?!

I hate not being able to drag and drop image links, right clicking to Copy image location as, etc.

It wouldn't be so bad if Firefox's latest builds weren't total rubbish on OSX. Now suddenly, even Firefox 1.0 wants to be a dumb shit. I also love how Firefox 1.3/1.4 lose their ability to search for text in a page, or respond to keyboard commands at random. Hiding windows has also been an issue.

It's enough to make me go in search of another browser that doesn't blow immense amounts of ass.

Apple haters go suck a mungy dong. Give me a PM when Linux has native support for Photoshop, then I'll give PC's the time of day again. :mad:
 
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Killthee

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The Take Out Bandit said:
Come on Apple, were you just using IE as the standard with which to design your browser?!

I hate not being able to drag and drop image links, right clicking to Copy image location as, etc.

It wouldn't be so bad if Firefox's latest builds weren't total rubbish on OSX. Now suddenly, even Firefox 1.0 wants to be a dumb shit. I also love how Firefox 1.3/1.4 lose their ability to search for text in a page, or respond to keyboard commands at random. Hiding windows has also been an issue.

It's enough to make me go in search of another browser that doesn't blow immense amounts of ass.

Apple haters go suck a mungy dong. Give me a PM when Linux has native support for Photoshop, then I'll give PC's the time of day again. :mad:
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I believe find as you type is disabled by default. Go to tools > options > advanced > accesibility > and check the Begin finding as you type box to turn it on.
 
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Macam

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I know you'll (understandably) object to paying for added functionality when it comes to browsers, but I use Saft: http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/. It effectively adds in a number of Opera/FireFox elements as well as some new ones and offers a good degree of customization, and given that I flat out prefer Safari on my Mac since FireFox is sluggish as hell just to launch, I went ahead and paid for it and haven't turned back.
 
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The Take Out Bandit

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Do you really have Ninja Scooter on ignore?
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WHO?! :p

Saft sounds neat, but you nailed me with that description. I expect certain base features from a web browser these days, or else it's needles to the eyeballs of the Steve Jobs voodoo doll!

edit: I'll give Shiira a try again. I think you may have suggested it in the past, but I didn't take to it for some reason. Could have been spotty support back then. Can't recall.

Using Camino to post this. Interesting thus far - are there any extensions for this? I can't live without AdBlock. :(
 
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Macam

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Yeah, I sympathize. I really don't understand some of Safari's shortcomings like the aforementioned lack of "Copy Image Address", since by default, you effectively have to select open in new tab and then copy the URL from there, which is two steps too many. But then again, this is the same Apple that still hasn't implemented tabbed windows in iChat AV3 and still has Finder choke any time you attempt to connect to a network device hangs (although that seems to a be a problem w/Windows too).
 
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The Take Out Bandit

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Is Safari 2.0 part of Tiger, Tiger burning bright?

I'm holding off on upgrading to Tiger since I'm poor, and I'm not looking forward to potential compatibility issues with some of my devices. Wacom tablet, scanner, etc.

Also - I totally fuckin' forgot how to back up my address book and iCal data. :p
 
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Macam

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The Take Out Bandit said:
Is Safari 2.0 part of Tiger, Tiger burning bright?

I'm holding off on upgrading to Tiger since I'm poor, and I'm not looking forward to potential compatibility issues with some of my devices. Wacom tablet, scanner, etc.

Also - I totally fuckin' forgot how to back up my address book and iCal data. :p
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Yes, Safari 2.0 is part of Tiger. 10.4.1 fixed a lot of things for me save for that my PowerBook doesn't automatically reconnect to a network upon booting up or waking from sleep (and the Network preferences pane only has the option "Connect to a specific network" now). Barring that though, I've had no qualms with La Tigre.

As for iCal and Address Book, if you had Tiger and a .Mac account it's painfully easy. Barring that however, I believe for Address Book you just go to ~/user_name/Library/Application_Support/Address_Book/ and back that up. For iCal you need to back up the .ics folders, which after doing a quick Spotlight search, I dug up under ~/user_name/Library/Application_Support/iCal/Sources/ . There are subfolders there using some sort of hexadecimal names and ending with '.calendar' which is where the .ics files lie. However, I think if you just backed up ~/user_name/Library/Application_Support/iCal/ you'd be fine. And of course, I'd recommend backing up the com.apple.AddressBook.plist and com.apple.iCal.plist (there are 4 files here) files as well which are under ~/user_name/Library/Preferences/ . I'd also double-check other sources since I'm just going by what I fiddled with, although I had no problems bringing either my AB or iCal stuff over by copying those folders over.
 
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The Take Out Bandit

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Sorry to bump something so terribly old, but I managed to secure some back-up media, have filed and sorted all of my porn, and am ready to start backing up as soon as this episode of Into the West finishes.

Would you suggest just going ahead and backing up my entire User directory, and Library directory? I'm not overly concerned with wasting space on a DVD. I'll be cool with a big fat ugly back-up that retains all my important data.
 
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The Take Out Bandit

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Yeah, I experimented with Camino for a bit and it was nice; but not as full featured as I'd like by default and even with Camino Extended Prefs installed. A good alternative to Firefox though for folks who want more than Safari has to offer, but without some of the hassle associated with Firefox.

Shiira is just lost on me. So what - it's a more Tinker Toy friendly version of Safari? I like a lot of control over my browser and software in general, within reason. Shiira seems to lean too far to the geek side of the equation for me. :/
 
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dkeane

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The Take Out Bandit said:
Is Safari 2.0 part of Tiger, Tiger burning bright?

I'm holding off on upgrading to Tiger since I'm poor, and I'm not looking forward to potential compatibility issues with some of my devices. Wacom tablet, scanner, etc.

Also - I totally fuckin' forgot how to back up my address book and iCal data. :p
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To backup the address book and iCal just go to File > Back up address book/iCal Easy. This may only be in the 10.4 versions though. I can't remember.
 
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