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Apple Safari

Apple Safari

Browse the Web with speed and an elegant interface.

Version:  4.0.4

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100 steps forward and 1 backward

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Michele Balistreri Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 01:37 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

I'm excited by the new features of Safari (both those in the beta and the announced ones). But they did one major mistake.

Now when you have to close a multitab window it ask you if you are really sure of that. Does it do any good? How often do you mistakenly close a window you didn't want to? And what's the cost of closing a webpage by mistake? Usually not high. This is even more annoying that the same happens when you try to *quit* Safari. Now if you press cmd-Q or go to Safari->Quit chances are that you just want to quit, why do you have to click again?

Also, soon enough clicking OK will become automatic, that probably the one time out of a million that you actually didn't want to close the window, you will click OK anyway and just after say "ouch!".

Me and my girlfriend were extremely annoyed by this behaviour and her comment was "is this becoming Windows?"

If anybody is annoyed by this "feature" please send your feedback to Apple. I'm sure is very important to them especially in this stage.   
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100 steps forward and 1 backward - awoolman

The number of times i've inadevertedly hit cmd+q rather than cmd+w makes me very happy that I do have to confirm that I want to quit. So for me that is a feature.
Sorry to disagree with you.

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Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 02:04 AM PDT


100 steps forward and 1 backward - Michele Balistreri

Apparently there is even an option to turn it off, it is not too easy to find (is in the tabs pane of the preference, where it should probably be a checkbox saying "Never ask again"), so disregard my previous post, I just did a mistake :D

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Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 03:00 AM PDT


100 steps forward and 1 backward - fvdg

>Now when you have to close a multitab window it ask you if you are really sure of that. Does it do any good

You can turn this on/off in the Tab preference!

However, Safari is not localised, only English

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Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 04:37 AM PDT