Still rocking a late 2014 13" MBP, so I'll wait and let the eager beavers try it out first. Don't really want to take a performance hit.
macOS Big Sur
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Re: macOS Big Sur
#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
> resize to cover all the area between dock and menu That is usually not what people want; they want it to cover the screen.
What I'm describing as the "opt" behavior is the classic maximizing behavior on both Mac and Windows (except Windows doesn't have a top bar). If you don't hide the dock/start bar it maxes to its limit, if you hide it goes to the bottom. Maybe it was unclear when I didn't mention it'll max side to side too if the bar is on the bottom. If bar is on the side it'll leave a gutter on the side. TL;DR it's a normal maximize…
I just did that on the Safari window I was using to type the comment and it just went tall. That is not what I would call "maximize".
Re: macOS Big Sur
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
try Adguard. It's the best one for this Apple interface for adblocking.
…which requires an Electron app to constantly be running for it to really work. Not great.
why does it work like this in macos? (meaning - it seems to be running an outside process to block ads, unlike in Chrome where the process is internal to the browser, is this correct?
as a windows user i was puzzled by this when installing adguard
Re: macOS Big Sur
#404Earlier 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…
"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…
I agree that it should be easier to get a simple list, but I want to note that backing up the firefox tab data is one file, and it makes its own backup whenever you update.
Chrome on the other hand will deliberately reject and wipe your profile if you copy it to another computer.
Also "bookmark all tabs" serves roughly the same purpose as a dumb URL list for backup purposes, even if it's awkward to edit.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#405If anyone is having trouble downloading the installer, check out this tool: https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS It's command line driven and will download a full installer.
I tried downloading with wget and still had the same issues, so I think it's because Apple's CDN is having trouble. https://developer.apple.com is also down.
Edit: here's my wget command line:
wget --continue http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/50/49/001-79699-A_93OMDU5KFG/dkjnjkq9eax1n2wpf8rik5agns2z43ikqu/InstallAssistant.pkgRe: macOS Big Sur
#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…
> The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??) Speaking as a non-web-dev who looks at web inspector once in a blue moon, this took me about 5 seconds. I looked at the Network tab, selected a resource, noticed the information in the detail pane had headers but not payload, and then right-clicked the resource and selected "Reveal in Sources Tab" which revealed the payload there.
Clearly not an old-school mac user. Right click?!
Re: macOS Big Sur
#407Just 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…
You know, I waffle on this. I don't think Apple is big enough in computing (as opposed to mobile) to be such a scary monolithic force.
I've been off Apple laptops for a few years, but I might go back soon. The new M1 is basically in the direction that I think computing should have gone a decade ago (RISC, increased integration into processor package, heterogeneous processing). Intel didn't succeed in taking us to such a great place, so I'm hoping Apple pushes things along.
And, of course, AMD silicon is flourishing too, which is nice.
Apple's been a far better steward of the internet and of computing than Intel had been-- perhaps mostly because of Apple's limited market share here.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#408Re: macOS Big Sur
#409Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.
I'm still on Mojave and it's okay honestly. It does everything I need my OS to do. I see no benefit in upgrading to Catalina, especially with it not supporting 32-bit apps and introducing new annoyances under the guise of "security", and Big Sur doesn't (officially) run on my computer at all.
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#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
uBlock Origin is glorious. Safari 14 has resolved an inconsistent, tedious bug I kept experiencing (most often on reddit): changing the URL query parameters in the address bar and hitting return immediately resulted in the page merely being reloaded. Had to wait a solid second or so before hitting return to have a decent chance of getting the correct page. But I've grown much, much too fond of this "No Javascript unl…
> Safari 14 has resolved an inconsistent, tedious bug I kept experiencing (most often on reddit): changing the URL query parameters in the address bar and hitting return immediately resulted in the page merely being reloaded. Had to wait a solid second or so before hitting return to have a decent chance of getting the correct page. I've experienced something similar before Safari 14: when opening Safari for the first…
Ah, shucks. I never managed to find a conclusive "acknowledgment" of my issue, so once Safari 14 rolled around, I only checked whether I can make my issue reoccur and shrugged it off as resolved. Guess I was wrong, because your description feels eerily familiar. Maybe we're using it too fast.
Agreed about the user experience. Really unpleasant to work around some indiscernible and apparently unfixable problems. I feel like in a "death by a thousand papercuts" scenario with Apple software, but I suppose that is a topic unto itself.
With Firefox I sometimes notice oddities with how fonts are rendered, and it generally feels "less native", but at least I don't run into miscellaneous issues like that anymore.