Safari is often treated harshly, especially by developers working on websites. I also can’t recall if anyone ever said or wrote that he likes it as a user.

I personally am using it on all my devices and I enjoy it simplicity. I dislike the fact that there are very few good extensions for it, but I’m not sure if that’s a problem from developers or from Apple.

So, my question today is: what do you like or hate about Safari, that either made you use it or uninstall?

  • porsche@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No tree style tabs. No Firefox or chrome extension support.

    Basically everything Orion offers.

    • prwnr@programming.devOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I only recently heard about Orion. Is is that good? How the Mac app compares to Arc if you know? cause Arc is the other trending browser on MacOS that I heard and tried.

      • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Arc is good. There’s plenty to like, and has lasting potential.

        That being said, here’s some recent copy pasta from another comment I wrote. It highlights reasons I’ve started looking back at FF (or Safari).

        —— I’ve been using Arc for a couple of months now. But lately I’ve been toying with the idea of going back. Why?

        • Extensions. I really, really, really wish I could see my password manager in plain view. Arc has a problem of limited screen real estate; instead of showing extensions, they choose to show buttons for spaces (and big buttons for “Favorites”).
        • Tab sync. It’s not super confusing, but it’s a little confusing, having pinned tabs sync but other tabs not sync. Especially when Arc is going to auto-archive tabs for me. It creates a chaotic experience.

        Things I’ll miss if I go back!

        • Little Arc. I love it. It’s quick and what I need often times, for both in-page links and .webloc files I have in various places. The only problem Little Arc has is it is single-instanced; that makes it hard to use as my solution for PWA shortcuts on the desktop.
        • Mobile Arc. It’s a neat way to implement mobile. I dig it.

        Things that didn’t matter too much, but I’ll call out:

        • I miss having a downloads button easily view- and click-able. Why? I like to see progress % and speed at a glance.
        • The window borders are thicc. I used to change Windows registry settings to have thin window borders.
        • The “add split” buttons at the top right are too easy to click on, and accidentally splitting a window can kill your progress in a web form.
        • Settings don’t sync between instances. This sucks for me because I manually remap Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab to sequential switching rather than “last used”, and I have to manually remap that on all my Arc installs. [Same with Bitwarden’s field-fill shortcut.]