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.'"

Comments

Pith != tabs... yet

[root 66]

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...

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.

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

[Anonymous Coward]

** 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)

Re:This looks like a cool hack, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.