Wednesday, November 2, 2016

When You Bitch About the Paltry Number of Tabs the Safari Browser Supports

In collecting resources for that which may come into play in writing for Ithaka, the number of tabs open in Safari, Apple's Web browser, may be enormous.  They get progressively more unmanageable as the number increases because there's nothing provided in the browser such as the ability to start a second row of tabs or something of that nature.

As soon as you utter a word on the matter, you can start the ten-second countdown until some nong nong says, "You have too many tabs open."

Well, thanks, you simple-minded, knuckle-dragging clot, for responding in that superfluous way to the question rather than the problem (i.e. how to manage a large number of tabs).

That type of question probably comes from the iPhone contingent which likely only has one tab open and can't understand why more could be necessary.

Easy.  My tabs are not usually about me, ducks.


This is a generic plea for information anything which approaches a tab manager in Safari although my own searches have not revealed one in Apple's Extensions.

Another browser is possibly a solution but the only one which is anything like as sprightly as Safari is Firefox and, to my knowledge, it doesn't do much of a job of managing a large number of tabs either.

Here at the Rockhouse, Google's Chrome isn't considered a browser so much as a punishment when it's so damn slow and clunky.  It's software to choose for a Mac when you really miss Microsoft's love.


We can even squeeze into this a self-pityingly lament for myself and many cowboy programmers since there was a time when we saw problems and would write whatever was necessary to obtain the capability we wanted.  That type of programming is long gone and it's one of the reasons I couldn't be bothered to write code anymore even when I did rather enjoy it at times.

Ed:  you're not going to write a tab manager for Safari?

Nope, no chance.  My preference is writing hauntingly beautiful and stunningly perceptive articles here on Ithaka to continue assaulting your sensibilities.

Ed:  when will you start?

Far from being wounded, I ask instead whether you have considered the idea your sense of the lack of such articles is due to your inability to perceive them.

Ed:  that's right.  When you don't get your way then attack the innocent, blameless audience.

Rules of the game, mate.  If you don't throw down on a heckler, you might as well go straight back to Honest Abe's Carpet Barn because you just love to sell carpet.

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