Apple Safari 6.1 issues warning

[stephen barncard]

< abdominal !  >   NO!

 abominable  !




On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at 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
>
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>
>
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
>
> more about sqb  <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar>
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