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I used to be the same - I used Chrome as my "dev" browser, and Firefox as my "actual" browser. But Firefox has gotten worse and worse (hanging, slow response, e
by untog 11y ago
I used to be the same - I used Chrome as my "dev" browser, and Firefox as my "actual" browser. But Firefox has gotten worse and worse (hanging, slow response, etc) for no discernible reason (i.e. I disabled all the extensions and it was still bad).
So I gave Safari a try. And it's actually... fine. Nothing mind-blowing whatsoever, but has all the features I needed in Firefox. My one irritation is the trackpad gestures I don't want. A good few times now I've accidentally gone back by swiping with two fingers, zoomed out to tab selection by some oversensitive pinch gesture, etc etc
- thought_alarm 11y agoSystem Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures > Swipe between pages > Swipe with three fingers
- untog 11y agoThanks! I did look in Safari preferences, I should have known better than to expect Apple to put the option there...
- robinson7d 11y agoI'm in a similar boat. Safari has surprised me lately - particularly its speed. That said, there are a couple things that always frustrate me with stock Safari: 1) You can't reopen an arbitrary number of recently closed tabs. (You can use Command+z to "undo" closing one, but if you've closed two, or three, you're out of luck. I prefer how Chrome handles this. Though perhaps there are good reason to avoid this feature.) 2) Tabs don't have a favicon. They may be ugly sometimes, but with many tabs open favicons really simplify navigation. Of course, this can be fixed via 3rd party SIMBL extensions. Otherwise, using Safari has certainly been better than I expected.