Tabs for Safari

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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pith balls

[sporty]

Pith is a utility for Safari that tracks the currently open sites and displays them in a window. If Safari crashes, relaunch it, and Pith can recover the windows that were open.

Um.. and if pith crashes, can safari relaunch it?

If there should be tabs for safari, then it should be in the browser somehow, not as a second hand utility. By making it a second hand utility, they become two systems that become dependent on each other. No optimization, no good integration. Look at mplayerosx. It's one app that controls the other. It jsut doesn't feel.. seemless.

Don't be daft

[hobbit]

Whatever Apple could come up with will be better than this, because it would actually be part of Safari. Do you think they built scripting into Mac OS just so that they could sue people who use it?

Fluxbox Tabs

[Anonymous Coward]

I recently started using the fluxbox wm on other *nixes and I must say that I really like the tabs feature. This is applied to all windows and not just web browsers. Since OS X doesn't have virtual desktops, I would find this even more useful to organize the plethora of windows that I have open at any given time. Check it out at fluxbox tabs.

AMD logo

[TQBrady]

What's with the AMD logo on this story?

Re:I Want This For All Apps

[esme]

I should have been more specific -- I want single-click access to every window, like the Gnome taskbar (if you turn off grouping) or the Windows taskbar give you. (I never thought I'd find myself complaining about a usability feature that's present in Windows and Linux, but missing from OSX).

In fact, I started to write my own taskbar, but I was trying to do it in Java (b/c I don't know Obj-C). The Java APIs will get you a lot of stuff, but crucially won't let you talk to the window server to get the open windows. There are some classes that let you register to receive application lifecycle events, but I couldn't get them to work, either. Maybe I should check out Real Basic to see if it can talk to the window server.

-Esme

Re:What The World... err, Safari Needs Now is...

[Sir Holo]

What The World... err, Safari Needs Now is...

The ability to TURN OFF FLASH/SHOCKWAVE! Is anyone else so distracted by animations when they're trying to read text that they have diabled flash/shockwave? Animations are cool, but only when that's what I want to watch, which is less often than I want to read text without some Monkey jumping around waiting to be Punched, or whatever. (GIF animations are off, too.) In my browser, nothing moves, and all is well. Opera, Baby, you are still on top.

Am I the only one?

why tabs?

[euggie]

IMHO tabs is probably one of the biggest UI blunders out there these days. Sure, it's all fun and games if you are running at 1600x1200, but most luser folks run at 1024x768. At that kind of resolution if you have more than handful of tabs in the same window, the tabs are crunched so closed together you can hardly read the title. So what's the point?

I don't see the point of this whole Windows-within-a-window deal. It's not like you can actually read anything besides the active tab anyway. If you have Safari's SnapBack, you're not going to need tabs to help you keep track of where you are.

Besides, if you bothered to read Apple's Safari page at all--or watched the keynote for that matter--you'll know that Safari is built for _speed_. Keep the Netscape/Mozilla-style bloat out.