The first thing that I noticed immediately after firing up the browser on installation was the rendering. If you have stared at a computer screen running Windows or Linux for ages, chances are you wouldn’t like the way things look on Safari. The fonts look fuzzy and funny! No wonder this was debated so hotly.
Using it a little more, I couldn’t help but fall in love with Firefox all over again. Firefox has these subtle nuances that I have begun to notice after using Safari. And clearly, Safari is not made for someone who depends less on the mouse. Here are a few annoyances that I picked in half an hour of Safari use…
- The entire URL is not selected when you click the address bar which makes you select the entire text to overwrite or delete.
- If multiple tabs are open, Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs doesn’t work.
- The position of the cursor esp in the text box isn’t remembered when I switch between windows.
- The browser window rendering is slow when you resize it (see image). Realized the CPU usage is 100% when this is done!
- It still crashes intermittently and doesn’t restore back the sessions. Mine is version 3.0.2 (522.13.1) and it crashed twice during the course of this entry!!
- Can’t resize the text size with Ctrl-mouse scroll wheel.
- Backspace and Shift-Backspace to go back/forward doesn’t work.
- Ctrl/Shift-Enter to complete the URL’s doesn’t work.
- No add-ons!
Here’s a bigger list of annoyances with a nice debate at the end. And yes, the folks at Apple seem to be tracking annoyances and more and fixing them in their nightly‘s.
