[robg adds: Hmm, guilty of overlooking the obvious here as well -- never tried that, and I'd wanted to have a slightly larger Google box in Safari!]
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This is one of those obvious tricks I stumbled upon by accident: if you click on the dot between the URL entry box and the search box, you can drag and resize both of those fields.
[robg adds: Hmm, guilty of overlooking the obvious here as well -- never tried that, and I'd wanted to have a slightly larger Google box in Safari!]
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Erm...
...It's exactly the same resize dot that's used in iTunes. And Address Book. And iPhoto. And just about every other metal app!
Was this tip really unobvious enough to be worth mentioning? ---
Erm...
Yes.
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no it wasn't.
Sorry, but ...
... can't win them all. Piss some people off one day, make others happy the next, repeat ad infinitum: the life of a webmaster.
Sorry, but ...
Seriously, this is a great hint--I never noticed that widget, and I'm usually good with "obvious" things like this. Thank you for posting it!
hint should have been more general
Yes, it definitely was worth mentioning as a hint. I had never noticed that dot in Safari.
Resize the Google search box in Safari
...try this: if you click the red button on the left corner the window closes... the yellow... and the green... ;)
Resize the Google search box in Safari
If you have demetallifized the application with Unsanity's free demetallifizer, the dot changes to a vertical resize widget of two parallel lines. Hacking Safari directly in Interface Builder does the same thing.
Resize the Google search box in Safari
This one is painfully obvious.
Even when you hover the mouse over the dot, the arrow changes to a resize gesture, thus implying that it is resizable.
Resize the Google search box in Safari
Thanks for posting this small but illuminating hint. |
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