RSS and Tabbed Browsing in Safari, Firefox, and Camino
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Alternatively, instead of viewing the live bookmarks through the Bookmarks Manager, you can display all the bookmarks in the sidebar by going to View -> Sidebar -> Bookmarks. You can now navigate the news feed with ease (see Figure 9).
Figure 9. Displaying the bookmarks in the sidebar
Tabbed Browsing in Safari and Camino
Unknown to some, Safari already supports tabbed browsing--you simply need to enable it in the Preferences option (see Figure 10).
Figure 10. Enabling tabbed browsing in Safari
Once tabbed browsing is enabled, you should see the Open in Tabs item in bookmark groups such as News (see Figure 11).
Figure 11. Using tabs in Safari
You can view all items in tabbed pages either by selecting Open in Tabs, or right-clicking on News and then selecting Open in Tabs (see Figure 12).
Figure 12. Displaying pages in multiple tabs
Like Firefox, Camino is another popular browser for Mac OS X. You can download the current version (0.8.2) from www.mozilla.org/projects/camino.
Camino supports a new bookmark feature called Tab Group. Figure 13 shows the iPod News tab group containing a list of bookmarks.
Figure 13. Viewing the tab group
As in Safari, you can display all the pages in tabbed pages by selecting the "Open in tabs" item. (To view the list of items, you need to click and hold onto the tab group.) However, unlike Safari, single-clicking on the tab group in Camino will display all the pages (within that tab group) in tabbed pages (see Figure 14). This feature is very useful when you need to view several pages at a time and want to save some clicking.
Figure 14. Displaying all items in the tab group in tabbed pages
As in Firefox, you can organize the tab groups into folders. You can create a new folder in Bookmarks Manager (see Figure 15) and then drag and drop the relevant tab groups into the new folder.
Figure 15. Creating a new bookmark folder
The tab groups are now organized into folders (see Figure 16).
Figure 16. Organizing tab groups in a folder
Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft MVP) http://weimenglee.blogspot.com is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies.
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List of RSS apps for OS X
2005-01-19 08:32:21 Saddino [Reply | View]
Can be found at pure-mac. It'll be interesting to see whether RSS-enabled web browsers diminish the need for all these apps.
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OmniWeb
2005-01-14 21:30:38 heliosnorf [Reply | View]
I'm sorry to see that this article failed to mention OmniWeb which features RSS and very unique tabbed browsing which is different (and in many ways more useful) than that of other browsers.
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NetNewsWire 2.0
2005-01-11 23:12:07 igbrown [Reply | View]
Can't recommend NetNewsWire strongly enough for RSS feed browsing. The 2.0 release has an integrated browser component (Safari/KHTML based, and brings up each news item in a new tab). I no longer switch between news/RSS reader and browser, staying, for the most part in NetNewsWire for most of my web viewing. Itll be interesting to see how well Apple attacks this problem coming from the browser end of things, but based on the usability of Firefox's feed integration, I think the NewsReader adding browser functionality is the way to go, rather than tacking on RSS support to the browser.
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Safari trick
2005-01-11 16:57:28 justcurious [Reply | View]
"However, unlike Safari, single-clicking on the tab group in Camino will display all the pages (within that tab group) in tabbed pages (see Figure 14). "
You can do this in Safari as well by doing the following:
bookmarks>>show all bookmarks
Then tick the "auto-tab" box
After doing this, the folder (mine is on my menu bar) will have a little square next to it rather than a triangle. When you single click on the name, all bookmarked pages get opened as tabbed pages.
However, I find that I switch tabs often by clicking with the mouse on the tab. In Safari this often means that I often actually miss the allocated "click-area" and hit the close button and close the tab I wanted to view. Very annoying. The Moz/Ffox single button to the right works a lot better, as I don't click it by mistake and I can close several tabs quickly by clicking on the same place in succession. Try closing five tabs quickly on Safari and you will notice the difference.
Why do I use Safari? Because it syncs my bookmarks to my other Macs real easy. Just fix the tabs. ;)