The thing that makes Safari great is the combination of fast and sleek capabilities as well as the significant number of features that makes the browser unique when compared to others available.
In previous articles we’ve discussed a number of unique features that help you enhance your Safari experience. Additionally, Safari syncs great with Apple mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch by sharing your favorite bookmarks.
While Firefox has the capabilities to restore a browsing session, it lacks the capability of re-opening websites on browser windows that you’ve just closed.
Safari on the other hand makes this is. In fact, Safari allows you to open the last window closed as well as all the windows from your last browsing session.
Both options are located under History on the menu bar. Select History, and then either “Reopen Last Closed Window” or “Reopen All Windows From Last Session”
I often utilize these features when I jump around within Safari windows. I close windows to often only to realize later there was more information I needed to gather from the website I was viewing. These Safari features make my browsing experience that more enjoyable.
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May 7, 2008
Dan, you have a great blog here, but this article sort of implies that there’s no way to get back a window you’ve closed in Firefox. Thing is, Firefox can do just about anything you want if you use the right add-ons (formerly known as extensions). Anyone who runs Firefox without using any add-ons might just as well run Safari - it’s the add-ons that give Firefox its major abilities. For example, I use an add-on called Tab Mix Plus, and i have it set to open all links in new tab (and to never open a new Firefox window, just a new tab). Should I inadvertently close a tab, all I need to do is right click on an unused section of the tab area and a menu will appear, and among my choices is to “Undo Close Tab” or to view the “Close Tab List”. The latter shows me a list of the last N tabs I have closed (where N is a number I can define in the options) and lets me retun to any of them.
In addition, I’m currently running Firefox 3 beta 5, which has a History function that has its own Recently Closed Tabs list, so Firefox 3 users apparently have a built-in way to access closed tabs even if they don’t use Tab Mix Plus.
Safari would be perfect if it could use Firefox add-ons (or, if it had its own library of add-ons that was similar to those available in Firefox). But I do think that if you are going to run Firefox without using any add-ons then there’s really no point to running Firefox at all (on a Mac, anyway) - you might just as well use Safari. But personally, I use several add-ons and there’s no way I could get the same functionality in Safari.
May 8, 2008
BigCrab, All your points are true in that Firefox’s features are endless with the plug-in capabilities. Firefox is my browser of choice anytime I’m running on Windows machines (Safari on Windows just doesn’t feel right yet).
But at the same time I’ve found for core browsing capabilities that I prefer Safari. I haven’t used Firefox 3 betas much yet, but I hear they have improved the core browser significantly. Additionally, I hope that the memory issues and lets face it, the previous releases of Firefox for Mac have been the Firefox versions that have received the least amount of attention. I hope that this will have changed when Firefox 3 officially comes out of beta.
Thanks for the tip on the Tab Mix Plus.