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Fix funky default window position in Safari
Authored by: designr on Sep 25, '03 12:01:37PM

This was perhaps the most irritating "feature" of Safari. I often go to pages that list hundreds of links. Instead of clicking forward and back over and over, I prefer to command-click each link which pops open a new window. Then command-w kills the new window leaving my original page in the foreground where I can instantly command-click the next link. Much faster and easier.

Safari used to make each subsequent new window slightly smaller than the last. After ten or fifteen new windows, the new windows are too small to see anything and would have to be manually resized. Then, ten or fifteen new windows after that they would be too small again...

The new Safari (10.2.8) is MUCH better. Windows don't shrink. They offset in a zig-zag pattern.



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Fix funky default window position in Safari
Authored by: stukoch on Sep 25, '03 03:35:11PM

Why not just use tabs? Thats what they are there for...


-Stuart



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Fix funky default window position in Safari
Authored by: designr on Sep 26, '03 11:49:30AM

I hate tabs. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them!

I still have to switch back and forth between pages and I end up with all these tabs hanging around that I'm already done reading.

But, what's really cool AND is finally fixed in Safari 85.5, I can position two browser windows side by side and draganddrop links from window 1 to window 2. If window 1 is a portal page like http://www.macsurfer.com/, I can jump from page to page in window 2 without ever losing focus in window 1.

This is so much faster and easier than tabs. I only ever have two windows open and never have to wait for window 1 to refresh. This also works for Bookmarks. Switch window 1 to your bookmarks and draganddrop them to window 2. I sometimes have three windows open: 1 for bookmarks and 2 for links so I don't have to stop reading while pages load.

Personal preference.



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