I really wanted to like Safari 4.0. Honest. I gave it a couple of weeks, using it every day. But I really couldn't get used to the tabs on top. Yeah, it saves a bit of window real estate, but I missed being able to read full page titles. Sorry, Apple, but just seeing the first few words are not enough. And with today's big screens, most people don't miss a few more pixels on top anyway. I also definitely did not like the way the tabs kept changing width. Half and one-third window tabs just don't look right. And while I like Top Sites, even though it hasn't been terribly useful yet, I hated the way pages were grayed out for a few seconds when you select a site there.

With Safari 4 Buddy, a few clicks and all's fine again. Thank you! I hope either Apple learns their lesson and gives us the old options again, or at least doesn't block apps like S4 Buddy. There's a little bit of promise there. At least Apple finally got rid of SnapBack (except for search results, where it actually is useful). In years of using Safari, I used SnapBack maybe three times. So Apple isn't completely off in its own world.