Are there any news about Apple programs circumventing most (if not all) Firewall applications?
And potential ways to mitigate that without disabling SIP?
macOS Big Sur
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Re: macOS Big Sur
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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 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.
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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…
In response to point 1, were you able to use History > Reopen All Windows from Last Session?
Nope, it was blank, because the Plist files have nothing in it. And I cant rescue it either. In Firefox they make lastsession.json and lastoeesion.bak where .bak was a backup and could be restored from within UI setting. I think they also had the .bak zipped somewhere in case all things fails, you can manually restore some part of it.
Although the frequency of that zip creation was something like daily so you still lose some part of tabs. There were additional guarantee they put in place so last session will never be overwritten again or blank out. But that was a very long time ago when I was still a heavy Firefox users and follows its development very closely. If I remember correctly those features development and debugging happened on Mozillazine.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#724Earlier 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…
> 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 have normal Tabs or Tabs with Fav Icons, not both. ( This is new in Safari 14 ) FYI, there is a way to get around this annoying new setting. 1. Enable Preferences -> Tabs -> Show website icons. 2. Quit Safari. 3. Enable Safari Debug menu as described in https://yuriy.eu/design/2…
OMG Thank You!.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#725Just 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 pockets too.
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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?
Generally by running selenium tests with BrowserStack or SauceLabs, but that's not cheap.
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#727Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…
It is definitely a big part. Considering there are over 600 million desktop Android emulator install, all thanks to Gaming. If Apple could gain those players that is some massive IAP revenue increase.
80% of the App Store Revenue are Gaming on both iPhone and Android.
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I wonder if any game (or other) developers are going to have major heartburn over this. "Woah, pricing/releasing this game this way was part of our mobile strategy, not our desktop strategy - how dare you run that game on a computer!" I know not all iOS apps target all devices - some are iPad only, etc. Is Apple allowing developers to arbitrarily prevent their apps from running on Macs? Can an app tell it's running o…
I‘m sure audio software developers will love it. FabFilter Pro Q costs 149€ on Mac and 33€ iOS, probably because they assume you can‘t really use it in a studio, which you suddenly could. I‘m sure most developers will opt out soon enough though and who knows if it even works for Audio Units.
The Mac version being a plugin rather than an app makes a lot of difference, enough to make the price difference worth it, IMO.
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#729Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Generally by running selenium tests with BrowserStack or SauceLabs, but that's not cheap.
That is awful! Thank You I think Apple needs to do something about this.
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Exactly the same. 15 Hours Remaining. And I have an 1Gbps Internet connection. I dont understand why. It seems macOS update and iOS update dont share the same CDN infrastructure. Could someone comment on possible reasons why that is the case?
Apple uses Akamai for Apple Music, so I wonder why that doesn't work for macOS updates. I guess they never felt the need to invest in serious CDN infrastructure for Mac updates since it's a smaller user base?
They were on Akamai and Limestone before, but some years ago they began using their CDN for live event streaming and iOS App Downloads. ( They were very late to their own CDN when I was actively following it. ) Not sure if the three are kept intact.
Still no reason not to use their own CDN infrastructure of macOS. And 110M Mac users aren't exactly a small number either.