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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pkamb »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

You can still only open about 15 tabs, after which the Safari tab bar turns into a completely unusable horizontally-scrolling list.

Chrome solved this a decade ago... just keep shrinking the tabs down to Favicon size or smaller. Safari just added Favicon images last year, and I don't even think they're visible by default.

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EDIT: Favicon-only compact tabs to have actually been changed/added in Safari 14 for Big Sur!? Which would actually probably push me to switch (and upgrade to Big Sur, even).

> https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/07/macOS...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by spullara »

sefrost wrote: post #178
ksec wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…

In response to point 1, were you able to use History > Reopen All Windows from Last Session?

You can set this as the default as well.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by spenvo »

irq wrote: post #293
spenvo wrote: post #249

PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps' windows are when plugging back into an external display https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/651131?answerId=64... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jt0gjk/big_sur_forge... I've been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there's still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors. If you unplug a…

I've had this problem for all of 10.15 too, but using an eGPU with all my monitors connected to it. Simply putting the display in sleep mode is enough for macOS to forget where all my windows are when I return. You don't even need to disconnect.

That sounds awful. I can say the situation gets more hopeless in 11.0.1. I'm a Mac developer so have tested this behavior side-by-side with Catalina and even Mojave, and Big Sur has unique problems

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by doitLP »

ajb92 wrote: post #288
egypturnash wrote: post #209

Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.

> whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS. My money's on "Sequoia".

Either that or “Alcatraz”

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by rsync »

ksec wrote: post #159
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…

"Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past."

Everyone has a story like this - from all of the browsers.

It seems like FF behaves better in this way now, but I still do silly things like rsync my home directory to a backup before every reboot/update. If I ever need these tab backups, I will have to do silly things like dissect them with JSON tools or monkey around with plists, etc.

Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

Plain text list of all URLs. Dead simple. Just pull up tabs:// and cut and paste. Or select all. Or whatever.

Lose-all-tabs bugs will always be with us - and a fix would be so simple ...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by qz2 »

xodice wrote: post #282
qz2 wrote: post #101

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1Blocker is a rip off. Wipr doesn't work properly. ABP lets a lot of ads through. There is nothing that approaches uBlock at all.

Wipr works outstanding for me on both iOS and macOS.

Still get pop unders on both.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by reaperducer »

talentedcoin wrote: post #291
reaperducer wrote: post #260

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Confetti in Messages? This has been a thing for years. This is for a .. (checks notes) “OS upgrade”? This is for consumers. Average consumers. The people that Apple is targeting. Not the L337 haxxors posturing on HN. Don’t want it, don’t need it. No problem. Don't upgrade. I have a computer still running Snow Leopard. Apple doesn't come to your house and force you to install its newest operating system at gunpoint. G…

Honestly, you’re right, but why should your good experience outweigh my bad one? I want a good developer experience is all. I’ve almost 100% switched back to Windows at this point and will never bother developing on a Mac again if I can help it. EDIT: And to your point about not being forced to upgrade — that’s true, nobody’s forcing anybody to do anything. But you can’t just stay on Snow Leopard forever either ...

why should your good experience outweigh my bad one?

I never said it did. I think your anecdote and my anecdote cancel each other out. But in a larger view of things, are both irrelevant to the conversation.

I’ve almost 100% switched back to Windows at this point and will never bother developing on a Mac again if I can help it.

So why are you even bothering to comment?

But you can’t just stay on Snow Leopard forever either

I can if it's the highest version of the operating system that particular machine can handle.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha »

least wrote: post #297
saagarjha wrote: post #154

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WebKit has a 50K rule limit per extension.

AdGuard gets around this by running a different “extension” for different lists.

It's not a great workaround because then your exclusion rules don't work across lists.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by kd913 »

haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

I am wondering if this marks the death of Safari on the web tbh. That and most OS X apps.

If a user can download and run the Amazon Prime app, why bother supporting Safari? The App version supports detection of VPNs, supports analytics etc...

Same applies with Netflix, Disney+ etc...

Then there are the devs which have OS X and iOS apps. Why would they maintain two code bases when now they can just support the iOS app and work on both? The app itself will be more optimal because it's designed for ARM/mobile so is likely newer with a cleaner architecture.

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