Things that Apple's Safari Lacks for Perfect Windows Browsing Experience
Apple recently released their Windows based browser Safari this month. I have worked on this Apple's Safari for some time now and I found some limitations or some controls that are missing from Apple's Safari.
- The first thing that I learnt from other websites is that Safari does have some font problem. However, my Apple Safari didn't show any such problem and all the menu and bars were absolutely fine. But, some of the people out there who are facing this problem so I feel that I must mention this here, although it was not my finding.
- Now, this is what I observed while working with Safari. I usually have the habit to write just the name of a dot com domain and press Ctrl+Enter. For those of you, who didn't know about this shortcut just try this.
- Open your Internet Explorer or Firefox, type "BollyBall" in your browser's address bar and then press "Ctrl+Enter". Note: This is a shortcut for visiting addresses with dot com domains without writing the name prefix "www" and suffix ".com".
- So, when I tried to do this in Apple's Safari, it doesn't work. This shortcut for dot com domains does not work with Apple's Safari. I found this a great problem for me as I am very fond of this shortcut.
- Secondly, when I tried to use the shortcut for dot net and dot org domains, they too didn't worked with Safari.
- Next, problem that I found with Safari is with minimization and maximization of Safari browser
- I know that all of you will be saying that it has the minimize and maximize button. But there is a problem with it. I and many of you might be used to minimize and maximize a window by left clicking on the task buttons that shows up on the windows taskbar. Ok, but what I found with Safari on my PC that, when I try to minimize the Safari Browser with ithe click on the taskbar it just doesn't minimizes. In order to minimize the browser, you will have to click on the "Minimize" button provided on the browser.
- Now moving on to the "Maximize" limitation. If your Safari browser is minimized to your Taskbar and you wish to maximize the Safari browser, just notice that it will not go into the "Maximum" mode rather it will go in the "Custom Size" mode inspite of the fact that your browser was in Maximum mode when you previously minimized.
- The fourth problem, which is actually not a problem but a suggestion to the Apple staff, that why the hell you have the close button on the Tabs on the right hand side. Every other browser has it in the left side than why are you changing the conventions followed by those biggies in browser industry. It creates a mess for me as I used to work with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari in a day.
- Next problem is that it does not automatically selects the address in the address bar completely when you click on it. This could be a bit boring when you wish to replace the existing address in the address bar with the address of the site that you wish to open up. This thing is available there in every other browser but not Safari. If you wish to overwrite on the previous address in the address bar than you will have to manually select the complete address instead of the automatic address selection that most browsers like IE and Firefox have. Compare the two images from Safari and Firefox when I clicked on the address in the address bar to change it.
So, these five problems that I currently found with Apple's Safari browser for Window and I hope that they will soon fix the above bugs and might take on my last suggestion in their next version.
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