Comments on: Relaunch 1.3.4 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134 Mac & Technology Writings by Daniel Jalkut Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John Muir http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134/comment-page-1#comment-20681 John Muir Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:37:41 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134#comment-20681 The Safari tab retention thing is why I'm giving Firefox 2 a chance just now, after years away from any browser besides beloved Safari. My return is thanks to plug-ins like <a HREF="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/" rel="nofollow">Google Browser Sync</a>, which is just plain essential the way I keep tabs around! If Apple opens up Safari to plug-ins someday, I'll be pleased to see it as some things are just better in Safari. But I reckon Google will get Sync running on it before any hell freezing over scenario such as that, via SIMBL and the kind of inventiveness on show in everyone's favourite Safari add-on: <a HREF="http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php" rel="nofollow"> Pith Helmet</a>. With a few extensions and a good skin, I have Firefox looking and behaving much more Mac-like than its default, and with less RAM consumption on my machine than Safari. But I know where "home" is... The Safari tab retention thing is why I’m giving Firefox 2 a chance just now, after years away from any browser besides beloved Safari. My return is thanks to plug-ins like Google Browser Sync, which is just plain essential the way I keep tabs around!

If Apple opens up Safari to plug-ins someday, I’ll be pleased to see it as some things are just better in Safari. But I reckon Google will get Sync running on it before any hell freezing over scenario such as that, via SIMBL and the kind of inventiveness on show in everyone’s favourite Safari add-on: Pith Helmet.

With a few extensions and a good skin, I have Firefox looking and behaving much more Mac-like than its default, and with less RAM consumption on my machine than Safari. But I know where “home” is…

]]> By: Richy http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134/comment-page-1#comment-19863 Richy Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:58:51 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134#comment-19863 Hi AJ, I'd love to be able to get Safari (and Camino) to do that, I just can't at the moment figure out how to do it through AppleScript. Well, one way involves simulating option-t and flipping through the tags, but that's clunky, unreliable and just looks plain weird (and annoying) from a UI perspective. I'm still looking for a way and should I find one it'll be included ASAP :) Oh, and by way of clarification the AutoSnapshot feature, takes a kind of running snapshot every couple of minutes or so, the idea being that should your mac reboot for whatever reason, or there's a power cut it'll start you back up where you left off. Hi AJ, I’d love to be able to get Safari (and Camino) to do that, I just can’t at the moment figure out how to do it through AppleScript. Well, one way involves simulating option-t and flipping through the tags, but that’s clunky, unreliable and just looks plain weird (and annoying) from a UI perspective. I’m still looking for a way and should I find one it’ll be included ASAP :)

Oh, and by way of clarification the AutoSnapshot feature, takes a kind of running snapshot every couple of minutes or so, the idea being that should your mac reboot for whatever reason, or there’s a power cut it’ll start you back up where you left off.

]]> By: AJ http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134/comment-page-1#comment-19822 AJ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:52:29 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/217/relaunch-134#comment-19822 Well if they can find a way to remember all the open tabs in Safari and it takes snapshots, that will be great for the occasions when Safari crashes and I can't remember all the links I had open, which had not yet been bookmarked. Well if they can find a way to remember all the open tabs in Safari and it takes snapshots, that will be great for the occasions when Safari crashes and I can’t remember all the links I had open, which had not yet been bookmarked.

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