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It’s a small change that makes it much easier to use the browser as a quick reference tool, since you can (for example) jump straight to the Wikipedia page for a topic you’re interested in directly from the bar. And as you type into the URL/Search Bar, Safari’s not just querying your search engine and bookmarks anymore-it’s also searching Wikipedia, Maps, iTunes, and news-just like in Spotlight. One feature addition that I really do like is the enhancement of the auto-complete options when you’re typing in the URL/Search bar. You can eliminate the middleman by jumping straight to a site’s search engine from the search box.

(Me, I preferred iCloud tabs when they were beneath a button on the toolbar, but that feature has been removed in Yosemite.) The ability to scroll through a long list of tabs in the Tab bar, added in Yosemite, seems like it will appeal to more people than this zoomed-out view. And I’m still not convinced that the new Tab View is going to be used a lot, though the addition of iCloud Tabs will give some people a reason to visit. I never considered the old quick-tab view anything but a nuisance-a mode I got into when I zoomed out of a page too far unintentionally. (This is the replacement for the old iCloud Tabs button.) The new Tab View, accessible via pinching on the trackpad or clicking on the new Tab View button in the toolbar, is a grid of thumbnails of the tabs currently open in that window, supplemented with a list of tabs open on your other devices, synced via iCloud.

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In Mavericks, that view was a series of slightly zoomed-out pages that you could swipe through, one by one.

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Safari’s new Tab view displays the open tabs in a window, plus open tabs on other devices via iCloud.Īnother addition is Tab View, which is actually a redesign of the existing feature that would let you zoom out (by pinching on a trackpad) to see the contents of all your open tabs in one place. It takes some getting used to, but it’s a good idea. Your very favorite sites, and your frequently visited sites, are all arrayed in front of you, represented by simple favicons. But as a replacement for Top Sites or a blank page in a new browser window, it’s actually kind of a good idea. In the menu bar itself, it’s sort of annoying-it just gets in my way when I’m typing a URL.

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In this view, there are large icons for each bookmark in your Favorites folder, and folders full of favorites appear as an icon full of smaller icons. A smaller version also appears as a drop-down when you type Command-L or choose Open Location from the File menu. If you like the Favorites view, you can even set it as the default view when you open a new page or tab. The background to this page is translucent, so it will let in some hints of whatever’s behind the browser window. The demotion of the Bookmarks Bar seems to have happened because there’s a new Favorites view that looks very much like what you see when you tap in the URL/Search Bar in Safari for iOS: The browser window fills with the contents of your Favorites bookmarks, the same collection that populates the Bookmarks Bar. The new Favorites view is similar to the one on iOS, giving you quick access to favorite sites (and even folders full of favorites).īut Apple hasn’t been content to just hide features in Safari for Yosemite: There are also several feature additions, some of which are taken from Safari for iOS. It’s easy to build up muscle memory, knowing exactly where in the browser window you can find your favorite bookmarks-but in Yosemite the Favorites Bar is all shifting sands. The centering of bookmarks in the Favorites Bar is also a mistake, because now when you resize a window or add or remove an item from the bar, every other item in the bar slides around. There is a narrow gray space just to the left and right of the Address/Search Bar, and that’s the only place from which you can drag reliably. Nor can you click on the “stoplight” buttons or any of the other toolbar buttons. The center of the window is now the Address/Search Bar, and you can’t click on that.

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By removing the Title Bar space at the top of the browser window, Safari windows are immediately more difficult to drag around the screen. General crankiness aside, there’s also a major usability problem with this design approach. Unfortunately, the page name doesn’t show up in the menu bar anymore, nor can you opt to see the full webpage URL. The good news is, most of these choices can simply be changed by the judicious use of the View menu, which can restore the Favorites Bar (which, oddly, now centers the bookmarks!) and Status Bar. The way Safari does things in Yosemite is essentially the opposite of the way I use my Web browser.