Bagging Explorer.

eWeek likes Safari. So do I. It's now the default browser on my OS X laptop. A brief wish list:

1. Tabbed browsing
2. Editable (not just purgeable) History
3. Autocomplete form-filling
4. One-click selection of the URL in the location bar (progressively coloring the location window as the page loads ? making it a progress bar? is a clever touch, but it misleads the user into thinking the text there is highlighted when it's not... and when the user would like it to be
5. Image icon generation for images dragged to directories

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Sorry Doc, but I really hope Apple doesn't pay attention to this advice. There are already browsers that have too many features and are too big. Let the Open Source Movements satisfy the "featurities" of some geeks, and let Safari be the browser for the rest of us.
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