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F041 wrote:

DeaconMac, can you add the AutoFill button (from View -> Customize Toolbar…) so that you just have to click it to fill everything in?

Thanks for the reply. AutoFill isn't smart enough to fill in all -- or even most -- forms correctly. Often, it just puts up an alert indicating that it can't figure out what the form is asking for. Other times, it fills in some of the fields, but not all of them. And it requires either remembering and using an awkward control key combination or taking one's hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, all of which slows things down considerably.

DeaconMac wrote:

NAG wrote:

It is nice that they included Safari 3.

Not so nice for me. Safari 3.0.4 has removed two key features, the loss of which will result in more than doubling the hours it takes me to get my work done.

Tabs are now the default. That's fine for those who use them, but I don't. I open more than 1,000 web pages every day. Can you image having hundreds of tabs? I use a database application that opens a new URL with each click. It's always opened them in the same, single Safari window, but Safari no longer allows that. Now it's either open a new window or open in a new tab, neither of which makes any sense for me.

Safari 3.0.4 also broke the way AutoFill works to fill in forms. With earlier versions, all I had to do was type the first letter in the first field of a form and nearly all other fields (except birthdate drop boxes) would be filled in automatically. Now typing the first letter in a form field only completes the contents of that field; I have to tab from field to field, typing the first letter in each one, to fill out form. Not much of a concern if you fill out 1 form a day. I fill out over 400 forms every day and this is going to increase the time required by more than half.

Why is it that Apple can't simply improve software? Why do they have to keep breaking it, too?

cmd-shift-A

I don't use any sort of wifi so that specific issue doesn't affect me. But it is in the general realm of problems I hope to avoid - stuff that just shouldn't happen but does and probably will never get fixed.

I notice no difference at all whatsoever...

Graphic Autist wrote:

I notice no difference at all whatsoever...

It killed Shiira.

I believe this update is required for the recent Final Cut Studio updates, maybe others too.

Spaceman wrote:

Grrr, they made this bad so I'd go buy leopard.

Maybe that's the point.

I don't know if it's OS X 10.4.11, or Safari 3.0.4 that did it. But the OS and/or Safari, is better than ever.

I've got a dual 800 G4, and going by the forums, it's my machine and not this update. Will be getting a new desktop as soon as Apple releases them.

Looks like I'm having to buy diskwarrior for this hard disk though.

In the past couple of days I've switched from Safari to Firefox and back again as default browser.
I'm not noticing any improvements over 10.4.10, so I'd stick with that if it works. I'll be going back to it soon.

I updated and I like it. I also miss PithHelmet.