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Re: macOS Big Sur

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And now we only can only hope for the next iteration to take over: KHTML → WebKit → Blink → Edge

Unlikely, given how Edge just migrated to Blink itself.

I think the point your parent comment is making is that Microsoft may break away from Blink just like Google broke away from Webkit.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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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…

As much as I love Safari, I found that Zoom is not working properly on Safari

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Either that or “Alcatraz”

They’ve had almost as many California places as they had big cats, so it might be time for a new theme soon.

One of the reasons given for the change to the California theme was that they wouldn’t be running out of names any time soon. So this will keep going for the foreseeable future.

Re: macOS Big Sur

#745

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.

32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.

64-bits have been around for few years. This means developer did not have sustainable income or is not compatible due to missing API (old Carbon times). Sooner or later you will need to move on. I am also on Mojave but booting to Big Sur to build for M1 with Xcode 12 is pain in a.

Re: macOS Big Sur

#746

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…

- Privacy seems to be top-notch It's baffling at best that you imply you believe this. It's proprietary software (so you can't prove it already at this point) from one of the most user-hostile companies in history, and one that at the bare minimum "was" involved in mass data gathering programs (example: PRISM), but everything points to "still is" and "will be" - not only for arbitrary governments but for its own pock…

Completely unfounded speculation on your part does not make other’s beliefs baffling.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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post #547

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I think you misunderstand that some people treat tabs as bookmarks. Let's be honest - bookmark management is tedious in all browsers, so I would rather have tabs open with stuff that I want to browse later.

This is pretty funny because you're saying it's working as intended, but also saying the problem is that bookmark management is tedious. So fixing bookmark management would fix the tab problem.

I think many of us are also aware that saving a bookmark, whether in the browser or to something like pinboard.in, is an invitation to lose it in a back hole. Whereas if it's at least theoretically in "working memory" we want to keep it as a tab. But AFAIK there isn't a really good tool--and certainly not native to a browser as far as I can tell--that lets me quickly and easily rationalize all my tabs into coherent working sets. e.g. Project X, Project Y, email/calendar/etc., to read, and so forth.

Re: macOS Big Sur

#748
"Use font smoothing when available" is no longer available in System Preferences / General. Text looks blurry and kinda bold on my 27" 2560x1440 screen. Especially in Safari. Anyone has a magic command line?

Re: macOS Big Sur

#749

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 absolutely quit on Chrome a couple years ago. It was SUCH a pig, and at the end of the day I wasn't happy using a Google browser, so I don't have it on anything.

My main browser is Safari, and I'm very happy with it, but I do also run Firefox for some things. I enjoy some of its plugins more (eg, ForgetMeNot), but overall it's pretty clunky compared to Safari.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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> when I see people using something in a way it wasn’t intended (...), my question is: how is this UI failing them? This is a legitimate question, but not the only one in that situation. Another view, more in line with the unix philosophy, is that "using something in the intended way" is a meaningless concept. A tool must work always, no matter how it is used and abused. Thus, instead of asking "how is this UI failin…

As a non-programmer, this seems like an odd philosophy. If I use the claw side of a hammer to strike a nail, I’d expect that it is t going to work well. It seems like there’s a limit on “make the tool work regardless of the use case.”

A better comparison would be: Hammers are designed for striking nails, but some customers have figured out they work well for cracking walnuts, so as a hammer manufacturer we should avoid using toxic ingredients such as lead.
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