[drissa]

Hi

On the whole, I'm over the moon about Panther - I upgraded from 10.1 so you can imagine what a huge difference it has made to my machine.

However, I've noticed a frustrating problem in Safari. When I search in this forum, choose a thread from the search results, then attempt to skip back to the list, Safari reloads the search (after displaying an alert box), seeming to forget about the results page inbetween.

This makes searching rather frustrating. Any thoughts?

[philzilla]

Originally posted by drissa:
Any thoughts?

yes: it annoys me too.

that, and the way it sometimes decides you don't really need to navigate back a few pages, and greys out the back button for you. how kind.

[DamnDJ]

Originally posted by philzilla:
yes: it annoys me too.

that, and the way it sometimes decides you don't really need to navigate back a few pages, and greys out the back button for you. how kind.

Yes, I've had this problem with Safari and these forums forever. Quite annoying, but I work around it by right clicking on a search result and selecting "Open in New Tab/Window" and navigate that way. When I am done reading a message thread, I can just close that window and still have the search results listed.

[RabidClwn]

Use Safari's somewhat undocumented Snap Back feature.

Mark the page that you are going to want to view again by typing cmd-opt-k to mark it for snap back.

View your article and when you're done, type cmd-opt-p to snap back to the page you marked.

This only works within the same site - you can't mark the discusion and then go visit apple.com and snap back to the forum list at macnn.com.

You can, however, snap back to Google search results from anywhere - cmd-opt-s and URLs that you manually enter are automatically marked for snap-back.

I think this feature is cool as hell and I had a hard time finding out how to use it as the Safari Help menu didnt list it.

Apples Safari site glosses over the feature without much detail.

SnapBack to it
Safari delivers the attention to detail you expect from Apple. Take the space-saving progress bar integrated directly in the address field, for instance. Or the innovative SnapBack technology. SnapBack works like a breadcrumb trail to lead you back to where you started. The very nature of the Web leads you from one page to the next and before you know it, you’ve wandered far afield. The SnapBack button returns you to the point where you last typed a URL or selected a bookmark.