Saving Safari tabs
Before I start this mini-rant (rantette?), I should say that I love Appleâs Safari; itâs a quick, elegant andâmost importantlyâstandards-compliant browser, and since they introduced tabbed browsing I have used it as my default browser for all but the most non-IE-phobic of sites. However, there are two (related) flies in the ointment. First, I hate the fact that thereâs no easy way of saving all of the tabs in an open window manually (or even better, automatically). Second, I wish Safari would warn me when Iâm about to close a tab-laden window or quit. Even though I generally sneer at dialogues that ask me if Iâm sure I want to do X, in this case it would be invaluable. When Iâve been a complete muppet and hit quit, I would really love it if some kindly dialogue box came up and said:
Hi there! You seem to have quite a lot of tabs open, but youâre asking me to quit. Now, Iâm sure that you know what youâre doing, but I thought Iâd just ask you if you really want to lose all those links youâve been patiently accumulating over the past few hours. We can just forget all about the whole âQuitâ thing, or I could save those tabs for you and go for it. Anyway, itâs up to you. Sorry to have bugged you, dude.
For some reason, I always imagine my Mac to have a friendlyâbut ultimately very laid backâattitude, possibly as a result of illegal substances; a bit like Dylan the rabbit in The Magic Roundabout.
