Brain Drippings

I’ve been using Safari off and on since it first came out in parallel or in place of Firefox. I used it exclusively for quite some time because Firefox did not support the OS X keychain, but now I have 1Password, so that is not an issue.

Well, the 4.0 version of Safari has finally been released and it features a lot of improvements. In fact, with the addition of Glims and Adblock and ClicktoFlash it is a worthy replacement for Firefox in nearly every regard. However, there is one thing that I really hate in Safari, and that is how it handles typing in the address field.

In Firefox if I start typing ‘post’ I get a drop down listing all the URLs in Firefox’s hostory that contain ‘post’ in them. Anywhere in them. If I do that same in Safari, it only tells me URLs where ‘post’ is in the domain name. i have to pull up the history and type post into the search field before I can see all the URLs that have post elsewhere.

I have a lot of webpages that I access on my own server, and this is nearly impossible in Safari and absolutely trivial in Firefox. You can’t even set the ‘search’ bubble in Safari to do a history search, you have to open a new tab/window, wait for top sites to load, and then click the search bubble or you have to select “Show All history”  (with no menu shortcut) from the History menu and then click on the search bubble… which is in an entirely different place that on the top sites page. Either solution is annoying and takes too much time.