Existing users, 
While this version works well enough for viewing sites, Safari still gets sluggish when going to view the bookmarks list. It would be good to have the option of disabling the little site previews since they do seem to slow down getting to the bookmarks.
There is also absolutely no flexibility for viewing HTML of selected parts of the page, as in Firefox, thus viewing the source code for the entire page is tedious. Safari cries out for third-party hacks just to offer the user more options than what Apple has coded.
I'm also finding that, as of the current build of Firefox 3.5, Safari loads the same pages slower than Firefox too (10.4.11 PPC) which is odd since I have add-ons in Firefox.
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Still inflexible . . .
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: hkim Thursday, July 09 2009 @ 06:00 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
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Not quite . . . - hkim
The activity window does not allow one to selectively view source HTML code. You are incorrect there.While suggesting closing the part of the bookmarks window is not a bad idea, you can hardly make that accusation that one does not know how to use the software.
Save your vitrol for your mom.
Thursday, July 09 2009 @ 10:11 AM PDT
Still inflexible . . . - Bob Wish
Previews slow in bookmarks, and can't be turned off? Just drag the preview window up until it is closed! =PThursday, July 09 2009 @ 11:08 AM PDT
Nope, just learn how to use it. - DavidRavenMoon
If you view your bookmarks as a list, and not with CoverFlow, then it's as fast as can be. Why view site thumbnails? Just turn that part off if its too slow on your computer. Just slide the upper window closed. That's what I do on my 8 year old G4, and it works fine.Also Safari has the Activity window, which lets you view elements of a website, as well as the Inspect Element contextual menu, so al the things you say are not there or broken, are there. And they are more advanced than with Firefox.
You need to learn to use software before criticizing it.
I use both Safari and Firefox, but Safari is my default browser. There are more add-ons for Firefox, but it needs some of those for things that Safari does automatically, like viewing PDF files.
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Thursday, July 09 2009 @ 06:40 AM PDT