Does anyone use Safari's "Snapback" feature?

[Flowbee]

Steve was pretty excited about this feature when he first introduced Safari, but, while I remember to use it every once in a while, it hasn't worked it's way into my regular browsing habits. And now that tabbed browsing's here, I can't really see myself using it regularly. Am I missing something? Does anyone find "snapback" useful?

 

[000111one111000]

I use it all the time. Especially when I'm on Google or Amazon.com or sites similar to that.

But, I do use it less, now that Safari has tabs.


enoch

 

[MacBandit]

I agree it works great when you are using google or any other page where you are going off on to links from a main page and you want a way back quickly after you have delved into 8 or 9 sidelinks. One click and your back at your search page or main page.

 

[melchior]

my habbit tends to be with say a search. new window. perform search. open links i want check out in new tab. snap back doesn't work because i keep the google tab right there.

 

[Zaid]

Somewhat unrelated i know, but here goes anyway.

Say I want to submit a bug, thats not related to a web-page but to safari itself. how do i do that? Also how do you submit a feature request.

The bug in question is that Safari doesnt properly display RTL Unicode text in the Bookmark bar. (it does display it correctly in the bookmarks orginisational area.)

The feature request would be to have an option in the preferences to prompt user for a download destination rather than automatically downloading all files to a single directory.
e.g. in the drop-down box for download destination, have an option called 'prompt user'.

Anyway if you could let me know where i can submit these i'd appreciate it.

Cheers

 

[Mal]

You can just submit a bug report without the page address filled in for either of those, I'm not sure if they have a feature request page. Just send it in as a bug.

JW

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by skywalker
You can just submit a bug report without the page address filled in for either of those, I'm not sure if they have a feature request page. Just send it in as a bug.

JW

That's what I have done and everyone else here did when Safari was first released. Just use the bug button to make suggestions and to report bugs. As stated don't put in the webpage if it isn't a webpage related item. If you know a page that isn't displaying correctly do to the RTL Unicode problem you are having then submit that page so they know what they are working with.

 

[KershMan]

I use it often. I miss it when I am at work and have to use IE. I navigate several news sites sometimes fairly deep and it is really nice to snap back up to the headlines.

I use it quite a bit for Google as well.

 

[baby duck monge]

i am with 000 on this. tabs make snapback less important. but it is still nice to have if, say, you're looking up multiple things in the same place. pretend you are looking up cds on amazon to get the cover art. when you click on the art so you can have a nice large copy, it comes up in the same window. there is no "search" option in that window. you could use snapback to get to the main amazon page instead of having to use the back arrow and then scroll to the "search" field again.

 

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by baby duck monge
tabs make snapback less important.

Exactly. Now I open a lot of things in a new tab when I am searching on Google, which doesn't create a situation where snapback it important. But it is pretty cool.

 

[mactastic]

I use it all the time, its one of the best things about safari IMHO. I just wish the key commands for it didn't involve 3 buttons, it should just be a command-key combo, not option-command-key.