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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by kjakm »

mortenjorck wrote: post #359
enriquto wrote: post #183

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> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?

As a UX designer, when I see people using something in a way it wasn’t intended (and having a hundred tabs is clearly not how tabs were intended to be used), my question is: how is this UI failing them? I think the problem is that people generally don’t know when they’ll return to a tab, so they leave it open, and that creating a bookmark is asking too much commitment for something potentially ephemeral. A good syste…

> I think the problem is that people generally don’t know when they’ll return to a tab, so they leave it open, and that creating a bookmark is asking too much commitment for something potentially ephemeral.

Safari's reading list is my solution to this. CMD+SHIFT+D adds the current tab to the reading list which is visible on a new tab page or in a side panel. Syncs across devices too. You just right click > delete to remove the item from the list when done.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by spurgu »

InTheArena wrote: post #38
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…

I really need Firefox's container models. The battery life for Firefox is awful, but everything else seems great.

Yeah I love containers and don't think I could go back to any browser without them ever again. On FF now after using Brave for ~2 years (and Chrome for ages before that).

I haven't noticed any more battery drain compared to Chrome, but both are worse than Safari (or so I've heard).

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ellis0n »

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…

Yes, the biggest surreal challenge of the 20th century is screen rotation and a second monitor, because that's not part of the original OS design. I am having similar problems while developing my phone operating system and one audio channel for multiple events in the same time like call ringtone, alarm clock, speakerphone, recorder. Every early version of android / ios did not work properly with sound and it took years until the problem was resolved.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Dylan16807 »

pkamb wrote: post #476
Dylan16807 wrote: post #445

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> 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. Don't give them too much credit. For a very long time, the minimum size for chrome tabs resulted in them hiding the favicon, becoming a completely useless row of triangles. And to add insult to injury, the tabs were still big…

Even when you have a lot of Chrome tabs open, you still mostly always see the favicon. When it stop showing the favicons, that's when you really know you have too many tabs open. It's a bit of a feature, really. The tabs are still completely usable, but not seeing the favicons was just annoying enough that it changed my behavior and would cause me to finally close a bunch of my open tabs.

If you had a small window it could happen with a pretty small number of tabs. It was bad.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by SahAssar »

merb wrote: post #503
SahAssar wrote: post #392

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Unity was replaced 6 years later with Gnome/GTK3. Not saying that it was a failure, but they did eventually go back to using Gnome.

well still unity wasn't such a bad ui and probably better than gnome/gtk3 at the time. unfortunatly it failed because of several issues.

Mind telling me what those several issues where? In my view it was mostly that they got no buy in from the rest of the community and the flagship for unity/mir failed (ubuntu touch/phone). I have no idea if unity/mir had technical superiority or not over the other options, but it really does seem like one of those "canonical things" that never gets buy-in from any other distros.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by [deleted] »

3327 wrote: post #270
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…

Just want to put here the long term consequences of supporting closed ecosystem Apple: -A future of monolithic internet instead of a flourishing forrest. -Technological advances driven by singular forces - i.e ultra thin laptops. -The decimation of small but potentially impactful hardware innovation that my flourish one day. Don’t get me wrong - i write this post on a Mac, for the same reason you all use it. Much of…

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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by spurgu »

dchuk wrote: post #474
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…

I would love to use safari, but I am a big fan of having separate chrome windows for different google accounts (personal vs work) and I don't think safari can handle this.

You should check out Firefox containers. Going back to Chrome and multiple profiles would feel so last century in comparison. In FF you can choose a specific container for each tab. The containers are color coded so you can easily which tab is in which container.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by dekhn »

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…

I have absolutely zero interest in using a browser that is locked to a single platform. I move constantly between Windows and Linux (I don't have any Mac machines right now) and the idea of using a different browser on each platform seems crazy.
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