" In Safari, you can tell how many new articles have been added to your feeds, but you have to open the feed to see what's there."

This isn't true. Here's how to use Safari to view RSS feeds.

When you see the RSS symbol on the right of the link field of a site, click it. It will take you to the RSS feed link. Save it in your bookmarks somewhere. After you do this for several sites, go in your bookmark organizing window and create a new folder. I like to put them in the Bookmarks Bar, in folders which show us almost like menus. Take all those RSS feeds (marked with an RSS symbol), and put them all in the folder.

Go out of bookmark management. Find your folder. It will have a number in parentheses (the number of active feeds). When you put your cursor over it, it will open and show all the feeds. At the end of the list, after a horizontal line, it will say "View all RSS Articles". Select that. It will open a new window in which you view all your RSS headlines, and can select to view the first few lines of each article if you want. Also can select how recent, which sources, etc.

Works great once you set it up!

--Dan

I found that I prefer Safari's tabbed browsing to Firefox, which surprised me.

In the morning I have a single list on my Bookmarks Bar of some ~35 web sites that I hit. I have it set up to open all of them with one click.

I set up Firefox the same way as Safari (actually I imported the bookmarks so it was a exact snapshot of how Safari was set up). When I wanted to open my Morning group I had to right click and then select "Open All in Tabs" rather than just clicking, a difference but not a deal breaker. What bothered me was that Firefox wanted to load all pages before drawing the first one. I found myself waiting for some slow page to either finish loading or time out before I could check my home page. With Safari I am able to start looking at the first pages to see if the servers are up or what the TMO headlines are while the later pages are still loading.

Session restore is a good feature! Does Firefox 2 crash less than Firefox 1.x? Safari needs the same thing since it crashes all of the time too. Although Safari took it one step further the other day. It crashed like usual, but managed to also wipe out ALL of my settings. I had never seen that before. It was like running Safari for the first time on a new machine. Awesome. Have any of these developers ever heard of exception handling? Geez. Oh well.

How do you set up Safari to open up 35 sites at once? Sounds sort of cool.

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How do you set up Safari to open up 35 sites at once? Sounds sort of cool.

Click on the manage bookmarks button (the one on the right end of the bookmarks bar that looks kinda' like an open book). Once the managing bookmarks window opens Highlight the Bookmarks bar, then use the Bookmarks pull down menu and select Add Bookmarks Folder. Notice the folder appears in the bookmarks Bar with a little triangle next to it. You can click on the folder and a list of all the URLs in the folder will be displayed. Add the sites you want to open with one click to this folder. Rename the folder as you wish

(you may have known how to do all this but I wanted to cover all bases)

In the manage bookmarks screen notice that next to the folder is a check box called Auto-Click. When you check this box the triangle next to the folder name on the Bookmarks Bar changes to a square. Now if you click on the name in the Bar and all the sites will open in tabs, If you have too many tabs for your screen they will open but you will only be able to see them after you close other tabs. If you want to go to just one of the sites in the list, you just have to click and hold on the name in the Bookmarks Bar and the list will open per normal.

Let's see. So my usual practice of selecting each item from my "daily sites" bookmark menu takes 1 click to open the menu and 1 click to select the bookmark. So, for 35 sites, that gives us 70 clicks. With the auto-open feature, you only have to click once to either close the current tab or select the next one. So thats 35 clicks. Plus the first click to open all 35 tabs. So thats a savings of 34 clicks or 49%. Add an infinite number of bookmarks and you'll reach 50% savings!

The other thing I like about it that all the pages load in the background. If you have some on slower servers or that are graphic intensive this saves time. It really saves time if one or more of the servers are down and it takes a minute or two of spinning before the file not found error comes up. I just run into the dead pages as I go through the windows. I don't end up waiting for each to load.

Firefox 2.0 is considerably slower than v 1.5 on my G4 iMac with 10.4.8. It started off just fine, and was really fast, but then all of a sudden it slowed way down and on a couple of sites (example, TitanTV) it started to freeze completely. So, back to 1.5.0.6.

I would really like to use Safari or maybe Camino, but I have to have a Bookmarks sidebar for my workflow - a feature oddly missing from most browsers.

Inadvertly, thinking that I would aument my capacity in Safari as happened with
Real Player & Flash Player, i installed Fire fox in my computer. This has caused
unknown & irritating problems.Fire fox has taken over from Safari in the management of existing bookmarks & Quick Time Player, pre-empting capacity
to view videos & sidebar info. Please help me remove Fire fox. Thank you for assistance. Jack McKee

Well I think opera is a lot better in every aspect, to the point that it includes pretty much most functionality that it's addons provide, and the download size is even less, and also it's ram usage.

It certainly won't replace safari as my browser of choice, safari's aproach is simple, as it should be for a web app, in order to keep it simple and secure.

Check www.firefoxmyths.com and be enlightened

Oh don't give us that Firefox myths crap - it's just another variation on trolling. And it's all extremely boring and Windows-oriented as well.