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this is my all-time favorite hint
Authored by: snoozer on Aug 26, '06 09:17:24AM

I have been wanting to use Safari as my main browser for a long time, but the stupid overly sensitive auto-scrolling drove me nuts. Yes, I use Command-click or Command-Shift-click, as well as the contextual menu, to create new tabs. But sometimes I want to drag a link to the tab bar of a different window. Or I want to drag a link to some other browser because I've found Safari doesn't support it. Or I want to drag a link to the Finder as a way of saving it, or to an email message or a text editor. Or I'm doing a drag of *anything* (not just a URL) from some *other* application and my drag happens to cross the boundaries of a Safari window.

I submitted a complaint about this to Apple, and they said it was a known issue, but didn't suggest this workaround. Thanks to MacOSXHints for posting this sanity-saver. Now Safari is back in contention as my main browser. I can now enjoy the following benefits of Safari:

* snappier performance than Firefox,
* emacs keys for text navigation (handiest when editing blog or wiki posts),
* window saving between launches (thanks to Saft -- the lack of this feature ruled out Camino, which I otherwise love), and
* rich-text copy-paste.

I think there was something else that drove me nuts about Safari, but until I remember what that was, Safari is tentatively my main browser again.

Oh, and the ability to tweak scrolling sensitivity for *any* app is a nice bonus.



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