Posted on Thursday 24 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Last week TUAW asked their visitors “What would you change about Safari?”. This is the result:
- Bookmark sorting
- Easier to use plug-in system, (a la Firefox) especially since PimpMySafari.com is so big
- Allow for different search engines in the search bar
- Windows Media and Real plug-ins pre-installed, so Safari is even more web-friendly
- Much better tab features, such as dragging/re-ordering and session saving
- Better RSS management
- Graphical history browsing (great idea!)
- Better support for rich text editing (open a Blogger.com or Wordpress post window in Firefox to grasp this one)
- Better image/media handling, such as the ability to stop obnoxious gif and Flash animations
- Search-as-you-type, with a text search bar at the bottom of the window, again like Firefox
Most requested features were better tab management and more friendly and robust plug-in architecture a la Firefox … actually, with a few exceptions, people requested a Safarifox, a Safari with all the popular Firefox features. So the obvious question is, why not switch to Firefox? Or in other words, what is holding you back? Are there any Safari exclusive features you don’t want to miss or just brand loyality?
Fredi
