Safari Right Click
I finally bought a 12" PowerBook and I have had it for about a week now. I started using Internet explorer but it seemed to run way too slow. So I tried Safari, and IMO, it was better than IE. My only problem with Safari is that it doesn't have a right click menu to open a new window or copy a link etc...
Is there a way to open a new window in Safari without having every link open on a new page?
Or, is there a way to speed up the page loading time of IE? It seems to load the entire page and the images before it renders the page.
Any help or comments are appreciated.
Is there a way to open a new window in Safari without having every link open on a new page?
Or, is there a way to speed up the page loading time of IE? It seems to load the entire page and the images before it renders the page.
Any help or comments are appreciated.
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Try getting the 1.0 (v85) version from the apple website.
This could probably be another topic, however...
Would upgrading to 640MB of RAM make any difference in IE loading times, not connectivity (obviously).
Originally posted by Secret Agent Man
Is there a way to open a new window in Safari without having every link open on a new page?
Typing Command-N would be my best guess.
Originally posted by Secret Agent Man
Is there a way to open a new window in Safari without having every link open on a new page?
if you don't have tabs enabled try holding command (the apple key) when you click on a link. That should open it in a new window... Are you familiar with tabs?
in the screenshot above you will see a small "tab" underneath the bookmark bar. When you enable tabbed browsing (checkout preferences in safari) you can use command clicking to enable new tabs in this small area... some people like this, others do not...
it is up to you if you want to use tabs, but many people find it useful--especially for reading forums like this...
I wish they'd incorporate that.
if you want rich contextual menu support in a browser take a look at camino:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/
Good advice.
Originally posted by mrmister
None of this helps the fact that Safari's contextual menus don't have a "Forward", "Back" and "Reload", making them well-nigh useless for navigation.
I don't know about reload, but cmd-[left arrow] and cmd-[right arrow] go forward and back.
Originally posted by mrmister
Paul, are you talking to me?
hah sorry i didn't look at who was posting heh...
Originally posted by bunge
I don't know about reload, but cmd-[left arrow] and cmd-[right arrow] go forward and back.
cmd-R reloads
best way to go, unless you can get dual-thumb buttons
Originally posted by mrmister
All well and good, but since I use the mouse to navigate on webpages it'd be a lot better, IMO, if those simple commands were in the contextual menu as well.
Well, since you're obviously using a multi-button mouse (otherwise it's no great effort to move your finger from control to command), why not either map some of the buttons to the keyboard commands or use mouse software (like mouseworks) that lets you open a launch menu with a button chord? Code simple applescripts for forward, back, and reload and put them in the launch menu. Or use iKey to attach those applescripts to F-keys and map the buttons to F-keys. I'm sure there's other creative ways you could do this, too.
Also need "Open Image in new Tab" and "Email This Page" while they are in there adding stuff...
Originally posted by johnq
No, Apple should just include Back and Forward in the contextual menu. Period.
Wow!
Apple doesn't like contextual menus because when abused by adding every little thing they become more of a hinderance than a help. Windows users tend to rely on them more, while old school Mac users have been using keyboard commands for almost 20 years.
Originally posted by bunge
Apple doesn't like contextual menus because when abused by adding every little thing they become more of a hinderance than a help. Windows users tend to rely on them more, while old school Mac users have been using keyboard commands for almost 20 years.
Back and Forward (or Previous/Next) are not "every little thing". Navigation is the single most important function in a web browser.
If I were to rank the top 5 most important web browser user-input-related functions:
1. Enter a URL by typing.
2. Clicking links.
3. Scrolling
4. Navigating Back or Forward
5. Copy text
Since 1, 2 and 3 are not contexual menu related (not naturally) that makes Back and Forward pretty integral to a browser's usefulness.
Macintosh is about empowering users not hindering them. Macs have many ways to do the same thing, for the several levels of user experience: novice, intermediate and advanced.
Novice: Clear, intuitive graphical Back and Forward buttons.
Intermediate: The above and Control-Clicking and selecting Back or Forward from the contextual menu.
Advanced: The above and Command-left arrow or Command-right arrow.
(Obviously these can be intermixed depending on the user's abilities or preference. For example my elderly mom actually chooses to use command-arrows, something I rarely see beginners prefer, compared to icons)
If Apple is going to have contextual menus at all, then they must not be half-assed with them. All Safari contextual menus, save the Image one, have like 3 or 4 items. It's not bloat to add 2 more.
Heck, now that Mac OS X has those neat multiple-item-per-line selection lists, we could have Back and Forward be on just one menu line (and have little icons). That would be cool
Apple obviously finds contextual menus useful or else they would not have incorporated them.
I wouldn't want a "Not Invented Here" attitude to limit the Mac user experience.
I could, but that would be both complicated and overkill--despite liking contextual menus for simple webpage navigation, I do not actually relish the thought of using complex mouse button programming.
I would just like Safari to have the same functionallity present in Mozilla, OmniWeb, Firebird, IE and Camino. It's a very noticable omission.
And this would hardly lead to Contextual Menu Abuse--I'm not advocating the REMOVAL of the buttons.