Getting to grips with Safari

Having been a Mac owner for the last 3 years, strangely I'm just using Safari for almost the first time since I bought my mac. I must say I'm finding the interface quite hard work...

The tabbing in particular is an uphill struggle. Being an avid Firefox user I tend to open a lot of tabs these days, but what I'm struggling with is the way the tabs disappear off the end when you've got loads open. And how on earth do I close a tab???

I can't work out how to reload the page either I can never remember the key combo on all the different platforms.

I love the coverflow style new tab page though - that's awesome, and I can see how it would be truly useful after you'd been using the browser for a while.

What's everyone else think of Safari? What's your favourite browser?

Cat

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Hi Cat,

You can access the "off the end" tabs wit the wee "double arrow" (>>) icon, and close them by mousing over and hitting the "X" (or just hit Cmd-W).

Reload by hitting the curved arrow on the right of the location bar, or hit Cmd-R.

Fave feature - Coverflow in History!

Fave browser is still Safari. I hate the interface and load times/style of FF3. Opera10 is also good.

Si xx

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I like Safari in theory - looks great, nice to use, super fast, integrates well with the Mac. However I can't wean myself off all the Firefox plugins I use (Web Developer, Firebug, Tab Mix Plus, Live HTTP Headers, Flashblock...).

Also I love the way you can quit Firefox with 20 tabs open, then relaunch it and it reopens the 20 tabs exactly as you left them. I've become so used to that now that it annoys the hell out of me when I relaunch Safari and it's lost all my tabs!

Ha! And 1 minute after writing the above I've discovered "History > Reopen All Windows From Last Session" in Safari. Still prefer the way Firefox does it though...

So how do you browse your history in coverflow mode??

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Oooh oooh ooh, that coverflow history is lovely! Is Safari any better now with javascript debugging? It used to be absolutely hopeless.

I'm a huge fan of Firefox - Type Ahead Find is the killer feature. I love the fact that I can just type some link text instead of reaching for the RSI-inducing mouse. I love my web developer extension and validation extensions mean I actually validate my HTML instead of forgetting all about it. My only FF complaint would be slow start-up time.

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@matt - browsing history in coverflow mode: Click the bookmarks icon in the toolbar, then click on History in the left pane. That should do it - it's the default setting.

Simon

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@cat: I love type-ahead find too!

@simon: D'oh! I'd fired up Safari 3 for some reason. Ooh yes, great use of CoverFlow!

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