Thursday, December 17, 2009

Glims for Safari

Firefox was a clear winner this far... the sheer configurability and the usability edge it had over Safari. Being a Mac user , Safari was the natural choice though... the easy integration with OSX (Keychain et al) was indeed convenient. Easily faster and lighter than Firefox , Safari 4 would be the perfect browser what with its slowly but steadily growing list of plugins ...if only Apple could have done away with the usability issues that turn me off in v4.
However, what saved the day is Glims.(Get it here). Here is a quick and dirty list of things that I used to miss the most that make the Safari experience so much better now.

  • Adding and managing search engines. Lets me add shortcuts and keywords like in FF.
  • Undo Close Tab (Command-Z). Big convenience for the clumsy me.
  • Autocomplete in forms
  • Saving tabs from last session
  • Better managed download folders - dated downloads
  • Closes download window by default . Small detail but liked it.
  • Suggested search previews in the search toolbar. Jazzier than FF if not better.
  • Tab navigation using . and ,
None of these are things which make it better than FF but all of them definitely bring it at par with its interface.
Next on my list to improve my Safari window are SafariStand , FLVR (or VideoBox now) and TabExpose

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