Apple Safari 6.1 issues warning

[Marian Petrides, M.D.]

I wondered about that :-)

On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:48 PM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> < abdominal !  >   NO!
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> abominable  !
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> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, stephen barncard <
> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
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>> (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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>> --
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>> 
>> Stephen Barncard
>> San Francisco Ca. USA
>> 
>> more about sqb  <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar>
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> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
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> more about sqb  <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar>
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