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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ksec »

mauflows wrote: post #574
jacobolus wrote: post #375

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> consistent rendering issues This is because lazy/incompetent web developers make their sites in Chrome and don’t bother testing other browsers. You could have said the same about any browser that wasn’t IE a decade ago.

Or they just don't own a Mac and have mixed results with virtualization. Maybe instead of blaming them recognize that Safari is extremely inaccessible software for most people

That is so obvious! But For those of us who has a Mac we dont think about these issues as we can test Chrome and Firefox.

How are Windows Dev suppose to test with Safari when they dont have access to it?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ksec »

ssvss wrote: post #635
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #211

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Tabs store context (history, cookies, container, etc, with tree-style tabs also parent & child tab relations) that bookmarks don't. I'm not sure about Safari (since I don't use a Mac) but on Firefox you can set up tab discarding (via extension) that unloads unused tabs. So there's a lot less incentive to use bookmarks when you can just leave a tab open forever. Really the only reason to use bookmarks instead of tabs…

>Firefox you can set up tab discarding (via extension) that unloads unused tabs What Add-on do you use for this.

You can simple exit and reopen your browser. Only the focus Tab will be loaded while all others are unloaded.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by vr46 »

tokamak-teapot wrote: post #692
vr46 wrote: post #514

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It’s great, or it was. Just refuses to work on my Mac now. It runs, but does nothing.

Have you checked Accessibility options? I think lots of software that needs this enabling for it silently fails if it’s not enabled.

Pretty sure I did, but good shout, will try it again.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by thefounder »

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…

Safari is the new IE. Now some people like it...less.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Tepix »

macjohnmcc wrote: post #647

My Early 2013 MacBook Pro 15 just old enough to not get this update.

Once your Apple Silicon Mac is too old to receive an update, you can't just install anything else on it because it's boot process is completely locked down.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ksec »

enriquto wrote: post #183
ksec wrote: post #159

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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 This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?

There are people with thousands of tabs. ( Not all Loaded Of course ). Every time there are HN discussion about browser you will see those mentioning it. Most of them are on Firefox so I guess I might be the few who does that on Safari.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Angostura »

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 to mention that Safari 14 is available on earlier version on MacOS too - I'm running it on Mojave and it works very nicely.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ksec »

AlphaSite wrote: post #340
khazhoux wrote: post #220

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Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks. Myself, I regularly have 100 tabs, easily, across several windows which are minimized. If the browser were to lose all tabs by accident, it wouldn't be a big deal (same as losing bookmarks isn't actually a big deal for some people)

I think if you treat tabs as memory its interesting: - The active tab is short term memory - The tab list is medium term memory - Bookmarks are long term memory (or if you prefer replace short/medium/long with cache/ram/disk)

I think you pretty much nail it. Active Tabs for news, mail, Youtube kind of things. Open Tab List ( That is why I really wish Apple would implement Tab Listing instead of Tab ScreenShots Overview ) For reading list and getting back into, I use Bookmark for something like long term memory. But part of the problem are the links no longer works.

I really like the idea someone on HN purpose sometimes ago. Where all your visited webpage ( excluding images ) are saved on your SSD, and you can basically search it back like your memory.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by jsinai »

laumars wrote: post #687
jkcorrea wrote: post #315

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If you're a stickler for keeping your windows neat and orderly like I am, you may want to check out Yabai (+ skhd): https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai I used to use BetterTouchTool and Stay to do this, but after a co-worker tipped me off on yabai+skhd, I've been extremely pleased and rarely have to think about window placement (took me a while to get the config "just right", of course). I haven't tried it on Big Su…

I hate the fact that this needs to be an additional purchase and not part of the core OS. Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement. It doesn’t feel like macOS has advanced much in that department since it’s initial release in 2000 yet Windows has snapping, easier tiling, less glitchy multi monitor support....and this is coming from someone who hates us…

> Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement.

I don’t understand. Windows has no ability to remember window positioning on screens to the point where I dread undocking my laptop because of the wasted time spent rearranging everything. The same way I dread it when Windows goes to sleep.

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