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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. This looks like a cool hack, but... by BlackBolt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Prepare to be "Cease and Desist"-ed. If Apple's planning on releasing Tabs themselves, they'll shut this down. If not, they'll let it live. They don't like other people "stealing their thunder" and accomplishing something they're working on - kinda kills the Keynote where they announce theming or whatever two years after it's been done by a third party.

    Remember the iPod TV Remote Control addon that Apple requested be killed? It'll be cool when Apple comes out with their version, but they're SO. DAMN. S L O W !

    1. Re:This looks like a cool hack, but... by njitkoff · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I wonder what grounds Apple could use to issue such an order. iCommune was killed because it used there plugin SDK, but Pith is AppleScript/Events and completely separate..... Even so, it is works for the time being.

    2. Re:This looks like a cool hack, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Remember the iPod TV Remote Control addon that Apple requested be killed?

      Yeah, the Griffin PodMate. I'm still pissed. I wanted one, but it was too late. And I think you're giving Apple too much credit - they aren't producing nothing to replace it, ever. They're not "slow", they're just not interested. They don't want the iPod extended to a "paltry" RemoteControl. The rule is, "If it wasn't invented in Cupertino, we don't like it".

      I've been a MacAddict since my old PB520 and system7, and this incident was the same old Apple, killing off a good idea, shooting themselves in the head. All these linux guys will soon learn how Apple really is. I can see they're still all excited over osx, but they'll learn. I hope they stay onboard after they get Steved. And I really hope Apple gets a clue and stops killing good projects.

  2. Tabs? by funkhauser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tabs are nice and all, but what Safari really needs us Keychain utilization and stability fixes.

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    1. Re:Tabs? by Visigothe · · Score: 3, Interesting

      > Tabs are nice and all, but what Safari really
      > needs us Keychain utilization and stability fixes.

      Actually, Safari does utilise the keychain. What it *doesn't* do is auto-fill forms.

      If you go to a site that uses HTTP authentication [as opposed to a web form a la /.], it will read/write to the keychain.

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  3. I don't find tabs that useful by kerteszla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Before Safari came along, I used Mozilla and rarely if ever used the tabs feature. I'd rather open a new window and then close it or minimize it if I didn't need it right away. The mozilla tabs were simply too buggy for me to bother with. I hope Apple works on compatibility issues before it spends time on designing tabs that work. d.

  4. What The World... err, Safari Needs Now is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ** An obvious way to _export_ bookmarks
    - Using Eterm/Terminal/Xterm to cd, cp, grep is a work-around not a way in a GUI program.
    - When I realized this I immeadiately switched to Chimera before I really built up a bunch of bookmarks.
    - In the process I tried to manually maul the bookmark.xml file. Don't even try. It's cluttered with a bunch of other stuff: history, your IP address, blah blah.

    ** A bookmarks file that just has bookmarks. I don't want my IP address and surfing history burned on to a backup that I throw into a corner of my work disastter.

    ** Tabs: I was going through serious withdrawl for the last week.

    ** Nested bookmark folders: How else are you going to keep your pr0n seperate from the mountains in your pics directory? Although if you insist on using it, create a new folder then click on the button bar icon, then drag the folder to the right pane if you want to add a folder to the button bar... Wait! Wait! I'll bet I could use Property List editor to duplicate that stupid button bar entry, rename it and then... oh my god! where did my bookmarks go. What are they doing in history. Ack cough choke. Please, please, please Mr. Jobe, tell me how to move things from history to bookmarks.

    ** Better bookmark control in general. Creating a new folder in the left and _having to_ drag it to the right pane is the only movement choice (the one time you can do it). People are very used to being to drag things on top of things (e.g. a folder or Rendezvous or whatever on the left) and people are very used to having a hierarchical view (e.g. Windows (not internet) Explorer's left column)

  5. What's the big deal? by scrypt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why not just use the Window drop menu to see which pages are open?

  6. Re:Pith is cute, but lacks keyboard control... by njitkoff · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Pith window never receives keypresses, and doesn't usually become the active application. I opted to do that rather than have it absorb them because after clicking the pith window I kept trying to use the Safari command keys and Pith would just beep and look at me like I was stupid. What sort of keyboard navigation do you suggest? I may be able to rig up hotkeys to work.....

  7. I Want This For All Apps by esme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want a Pith for everything -- a taskbar that displays an icon for each window that's open.

    My one big problem with OSX right now is that it's too hard to switch between windows of different apps. Since I often have a bunch of terminals, several Mozilla windows, plus other random stuff open, I need to do this often. Mozilla's tabs make it easier to get the Moz windows, at least. But I'd like it to handle all apps...

    -Esme

  8. OS 9 App Switcher by hnoon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It'a kinda like the old drop-down, tear-off App Switcher in Mac Os 8/9.

    The tab interface still needs significant improvement on all the browsers. Quite often I want to close a tab by clicking on the little x but instinctively move my mouse up an extra inch and close the window instead. There go all them pages I opened up.

    The only reason I still use tabs is because of good old ctrl-t and ctrl-f4.