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Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by apple4ever »

There are things to complain about Safari, but these don't feel that big of a deal. Some of my issues:

1. Massive memory consumption if left running to long 2. Randomly says "you are trying to close two tabs!" when you only have highlighted one 3. Randomly just stops loading a tab, and you have to literally close that tab and open a new one 4. Randomly opens a new tab in a random window when clicking, and you have to hunt for it 5. Hardcoded search engines

That's just off the top of my head.

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by mgarfias »

dwaite wrote: post #56
mgarfias wrote: post #52

I've seen under the apple skirt, and the incentive structure there is such that these issues are inevitable. You get more RSUs and promotions when you make something new, and not when you make something simpler and more robust.

This is a problem I've heard from most large tech companies, most notably Google. Do you have an example of a company which has been successful with an alternative incentive structure that doesn't have these issues, perhaps one that pushes for more siloed products and rewards employees based on ongoing financial success?

I don’t. I’m only applying my “inside” knowledge of the org I was at there in the orchard. It I can extrapolate to the rest of the greater orgs and company as a whole due to the nature of the internal propaganda and the clear financial signals.

The best incentive I’ve ever had wasn’t financial. It was having an incredible boss whom I DID NOT WANT TO DISAPPOINT.

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by chatmasta »

jumpadvance wrote: post #32
chatmasta wrote: post #20

It’s inexcusable that the only choices for default search engine are Google, or 4 companies which are reskinned versions of the Bing API. It should be possible to set the default search engine to any URL with a ?q= parameter.

Interesting what search engines would you recommend

That's not really any of your business... for all you care, I could choose localhost:9090?q=%s

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

dijit wrote: post #16
5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #11

safari dev tools suck ass. and they have done for at least 5 years if not more. i'd say they've gotten worse even. and expecting me to create an Apple ID and then download 30GB of xcode crap just to port my 5kb chrome extension to safari. yea right.

Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store? I’m not sure how it would work without such an account, and if you do then it seems like a weird hill to die on… surely you’d be expected to have one for another store. Is XCode really 30GB?!

> Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store?

i don't know. i'm just talking about the simple act of porting an existing chrome js file to work in safari.

it takes 2 minutes to port to firefox and you dont need to dowlonad gigs of proprietary junk on your machine and create an account.

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by dijit »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #64
dijit wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store? I’m not sure how it would work without such an account, and if you do then it seems like a weird hill to die on… surely you’d be expected to have one for another store. Is XCode really 30GB?!

> Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store? i don't know. i'm just talking about the simple act of porting an existing chrome js file to work in safari. it takes 2 minutes to port to firefox and you dont need to dowlonad gigs of proprietary junk on your machine and create an account.

Firefox requires you to create a developer account. And, obviously, install firefox.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/submitti...

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

dijit wrote: post #65
5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store? i don't know. i'm just talking about the simple act of porting an existing chrome js file to work in safari. it takes 2 minutes to port to firefox and you dont need to dowlonad gigs of proprietary junk on your machine and create an account.

Firefox requires you to create a developer account. And, obviously, install firefox. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/submitti...

> "Go to Add-ons Developer Hub and click Submit Your First Add-on or Submit a New Add-on. You reach the following page:"

that's for publishing. i'm just talking about the simple act of porting an extension and running it locally.

you cannot do that at all in safari without xcode and an account to sign,

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by ColinHayhurst »

chatmasta wrote: post #20

It’s inexcusable that the only choices for default search engine are Google, or 4 companies which are reskinned versions of the Bing API. It should be possible to set the default search engine to any URL with a ?q= parameter.

Yes: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...

Re: Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

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Post by chatmasta »

ColinHayhurst wrote: post #68
chatmasta wrote: post #20

It’s inexcusable that the only choices for default search engine are Google, or 4 companies which are reskinned versions of the Bing API. It should be possible to set the default search engine to any URL with a ?q= parameter.

Yes: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...

I couldn't agree more. It's such low hanging fruit for regulators, I'm shocked that such breathtakingly brazen monopolist behavior has been tolerated for this long.
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