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Tabs for Safari

Posted by pudge on from the better-than-nothing dept.

hexgrid writes "A dream come true! Blacktree, Inc. has released Pith Beta 2, 'a utility for Safari that tracks the currently open sites and displays them in a window.' It's not exactly tabs as we know them in other browsers, but serves the same purpose with the added bonus of being more 'Mac-like.'"

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  1. Pith != tabs... yet by root+66 · · Score: 5, Informative
    While it's true that Pith is a nice tool, it is not exactly comparable to Mozilla's tabs. Some of Pith's shortcomings may exist due to its beta stage, but I wonder whether it's possible for Pith to fully achieve its goal. One major downside is the performance hit caused by the heavy safari window showing/hiding.

    There is a discussion about Pith on MacSlash.

    In other news, Apple has updated it's iMac product line...

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    1. Re:Pith != tabs... yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      I don't see how everyone can say it's not quite there yet. It's a different implementation but has very interesting features:

      1. You can hide any window (control click the button and choose hide).

      2. If you see a performance problem with hiding, instead use the same window to display all pages. This is very much like tabbed browsing with the advantage that you don't waste as much vertical screen real-estate.

      3. You can organize the buttons by age, name or order; which is an improvement over traditional tabs.

      All in all I think it's a great implementation; even though different.

      Note: to access the preferences click on the PITH icon on the bottom of the floating window.

      AC

  2. Re:I don't find tabs that useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Tabs are useful for many people that have dozens of web pages up at once, on any size screen. I use single window to hold all my news site tabs, a single one to hold all my search site tabs, a single one for any given research project, a single one for the forums sites I read throughout the day, etc.

    And Moz browsers have had "open in background" as an option for about as long as they've had tabs at all. It's even the default on several platforms.

  3. Not a real good idea by rgraham · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple has stated that developing apps for or that include Safari is not recommended since they anticipate a lot will change between now and when they release vesion 1.0.

  4. Re:I Want This For All Apps by Golias · · Score: 2, Informative

    For every app that's running in OS X, the dock icon has a menu of each of the windows handled by that app. So switching between different windows in different apps is actually pretty easy, if you know about that feature.

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  5. Re:I Want This For All Apps by 3-State+Bit · · Score: 3, Informative

    command-tilde switches between open windows of a given app. As long as you only have 3-4 that's okay, but the point is that each of those 3-4 safari windows should be able to hold potentially dozens of tabs.