< abdominal ! > NO! abominable !
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > (for mac desktop users) > I got a notice there was a new beta version of Safari from Apple dev, and > thought there wouldn't be a problem trying it out. Usually I will test a > new OS on an isolated drive, just in case. > > "But this is just an app", I thought. I was wrong. > > As soon as I tried to hit the 'enlarge' button on a YouToob video, I > realized I had screwed up by installing it. > > You know that 'Full Screen' mode that some apps have now, where if one has > two monitors, the second is rendered useless and presented with a grey > textured background? > > Well now this extends to the Safari browser, where if one enlarges any > video on any web page, it goes into this $#@$@%$ mode and one can't do > ANYTHING on the second monitor while the other holds the expanded movie. > DUMB-ASS UI MANIPULATION. > UIs are supposed to help people, not cut options. This is BS. > > Safari 6.1 shows us what's in our Mavericks future: More controlling and > more UI changes that annoy. > > I like to have the news full screen on one, and work on the other. There > have been some missing cursor issues, but I could work around that most of > the time. With 6.1, it's impossible. > > Well I would have none of that, so I tried to delete the Safari 6.1 app. > Guess what? A new dialog pops up telling me that Safari is now required > by the Operating System to be there and can't be removed. > > WHAT?? This is supposed to be an app, not a system component. > > I looked in vain on the dev site for an uninstaller, and on a web search I > found references to one, but it didn't exist anywhere. > > The only option was to re-install the entire system, on my machine, a two > hour affair. > What a PIA. Annoying. > > By the way, the new nightly builds of Webkit do the same shtick. > > so beware, I'd suggest NOT getting this version of Safari - at first > glance no real new feature other than Twitter integration (whatever the > hell that means), and this abdominal and irreversible bonding of the OS and > the browser . > > sqb > > -- > > > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
