I primarily use Firefox at my Windows machine but in Mac i use Safari ( why? ) . But there are multiple things i dont like about Safari than Firefox. One of them is how Safari shows popup confirmations to remember passwords . Safari doesn’t let you go past the password page till you decide yes , not now or never in its confirmation popup. I dislike this. I love the way Firefox handles this. In older version of Firefox such popup were there but in latest ones its removed with a pretty good banner at top which appears till some time after you passed the password page. Safari behavior is specially annoying when you ask Safari to remember the password and it happens to be the wrong password. ( so may things so many passwords you know ). The way Google Chrome handles is the advanced one among all the browsers i have seen. Its very intelligent. 

Safari and Internet Explorer match in this case because latest version of both Browsers use similar popups where your input is a must to go to the next page.. Safari and IE friends . Seems unconvincing huh..

What do you do to Open new Tab in Safari . Well most of us use Shortcut key combination Command + T . Or some of us use the File menu and select new Tab menu item . But today i found a third way to open a new Tab in Safari . 

You can double click or right click and select New Tab on the Empty Tab bar and it opens a new tab . I didn’t know this . Today i randomly found it. 

Well my favorite browser is Firefox but in Mac i prefer Safari to Firefox. But i noticed a small usability low in Safari today which irritates me much these day after i actually discovered it. What happens is when i search something using the Google Search bar built in the Safari and i open a new tab i lose the search string i just used. 

Seems the Search string remains in the Google bar only to that tab and is not shared in the Safari windows over all the tabs. People may find it good because they may ask why the hell do you want to search using the same search string which you just performed search with. But in my case i do quite a lot of search modifying my search string and keeping the previous Google search result saved in an open tab . In this scenario i am not pretty happy with this behavior of Safari. And this is not the case when using Firefox .Firefox keeps the search string in Google search box saved for all the tabs until its replaced by other Search string. May be this is the reason i find it irritating in Safari because i am too used to with Firefox in my Windows machine at work

Before using Mac my favorite browser in Windows was Firefox ( not that i hate IE ,  because of Firefox addons features basically i love Firefox) . But when i moved to Apple Mac my favorite browser is Safari though it doesn’t have Addon’s flexibility as compared to Firefox . In Firefox world viewing the saved passwords is really easy . You just need to go to Firefox preferences in Mac ( and tools> options in Windows ) then to Security tab and click on the “Saved Passwords” then “Show Passwords” . Getting the forgotten passwords was , and still is , this easy in Firefox . I keep forgetting my usernames and passwords i use in different sites and personally i used this feature of Firefox many times. Quite sometimes i have also revealed my friends’ saved passwords , like a prank , in their Firefox browser . It is quite fun if your friends are not much aware of these stuffs.

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At my office, i had some HTML things to work with .It was about dropdown combo box with more than 1 visible items ( this means HTML Select tag with size more than 1 like <select name=”macphobia” size=”2″> ) I was playing around with the w3cschools’ tryit editor in different browsers . It was working fine with expected results in IE , Mozilla firefox in my office Windows XP machine but i did the same thing in Safari in Windows the result was not what expected. Safari was not showing the number of visible items in Dropdown to what i had defined the HTML select tag rather it was showing all the elements in the drop down options. This was weird and surprising to me . Below are different results of my tries . It seems that whatever the number of size you give as visible items Safari will always show 4 itmes . Continue reading »