One feature I'd like in Safari

[steviem]

I'd love to see three or four finger swipe in safari to move between tabs.

A tab bar would take up too much space, so a gesture would be perfect for this situation...

 

[Julien]

Of course Safari would first need tabs. I guess it could be implemented to change between windows.

 

[Baracus]

Or just use Atomic! I much prefer it to Safari now
So much more flexibility and it feels like a proper desktop browser.

 

[gigaguy]

Safari is poor compared to atomic good w/.gestures, ICab is better w/tabs.
Safari needs to step up big time. Much better web experience with atomic and iCab.

 

[lionheartednyhc]

Download BetterTouchTool.

Best utility ever. It allows you to set custom gestures to specific apps, or system wide.

So you could set a gesture to activate apple + shift + [ to switch tabs.

I also have it set that when I rotate my fingers in safari (like you can do with photos) it refreshes the page.

 

[Kobra]

BetterTouch is cool on your MacBook... But as this is a iPad forum that info is irrelevant I hope Apple adds two finger swipe to Safari in iPhone OS 4

 

[JulianL]

Safari is poor compared to atomic good w/.gestures, ICab is better w/tabs.
Safari needs to step up big time. Much better web experience with atomic and iCab.

I agree. Someone here pointed me towards iCabmobile and it's streets ahead of Safari. It also seems to handle having lots of tabs open at the same time much better than Safari does. After 2 or 3 tabs Safari keeps reloading them when switching between open pages but iCabmobile seems to be much cleverer at keeping stuff cached in memory or on flash storage.

- Julian

 

[lionheartednyhc]

BetterTouch is cool on your MacBook... But as this is a iPad forum that info is irrelevant I hope Apple adds two finger swipe to Safari in iPhone OS 4

haha oops!

 

[spiralynth]

Definitely more sex.

 

[JBazz]

I would be happy with an ad blocker program for safari. I got spoiled with firefox. Ads are too intrusive and cause too many hang ups.

 

[wyneken]

I would be happy with an ad blocker program for safari. I got spoiled with firefox. Ads are too intrusive and cause too many hang ups.

Daniel Eran Dilger has some interesting comments about this in Roughly Drafted.

 

[Batt]

Safari is poor compared to atomic good w/.gestures, ICab is better w/tabs.
Safari needs to step up big time. Much better web experience with atomic and iCab.

I've seen a fair amount of complaining in these forums about these two browsers eating battery life. I'll wait for Apple's fix.

 

[calderone]

Before that, how about "Find in Page." Without Javascript bookmarklets or $1.99 apps.