How do Mac OS X browsers handle three essential features (on top of the requisite standards compliance): Tabs, crash or quit protection, and print preview?
Browser
New tab
Move from tab to tab
Close tab and you go…
Save browser state?
Print preview?
Camino
Command-T
Option-Command- leftarrow/-rightarrow
To next tab
No
No
Firefox, Mozilla
Command-T
Ctrl- PgUp/-PgDn (along with Fn key on PowerBooks)
To next tab
No
No
IE5
No tabs
No
Yes
OmniWeb
Command-T
Command- uparrow/-downarrow
To next tab
Yes
No
Opera
Command-N
(Shift-)F6
To previous tab
Yes
Yes
Safari
Command-T
Shift-Command- leftarrow/-rightarrow
To next tab
No
No
Shiira
Command-T
Shift-Command- leftarrow/-rightarrow
To previous selected tab
No
No
Evidently, then, no single browser gives me everything I want. If Opera fixes its keystroke and tab behaviour, among other defects, it may win out.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.13 16:30. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: http://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/13/browsers/
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