# Wow, Mac people, I might have to go back to Safari... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312 "2007-07-03T02:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312/21 "2007-07-04T20:09:17Z")
Shiira user here. It’s a webkit browser, like Safari, but it blows Safari out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312/22 "2007-07-04T23:09:22Z")
I tried Shiira 2 for a while and generally liked it but found it to be too buggy. I like the new safari. I have had to change a few habits though. I don’t like the way you can’t middle click anywhere on a tab to close it like in FF, I also don’t like how it handles it when there are too many tabs in a window either. Why doesn’t Safarii have the dropdown arrow for recently typed websites? That’s how I navigate, nevertheless I use bookmarks now. I also wish there was a way to get [del.ico.us](http://del.ico.us) going as a plugin in Safari, but I guess I’ll manage. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312/23 "2007-07-05T02:03:40Z")
I’m not sure what you mean by having [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) as a plugin, but maybe [this page](http://del.icio.us/help/buttons) on their website can help you. When I experimented with the service, I put those bookmarklets in the menu bar so that whenever I wanted to post to [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) it just took a click to do so. If that’s not what you’re looking for, maybe these links will help (I’m assuming you’re using OS X if you used Shiira): [Cocoalicious](http://www.scifihifi.com/cocoalicious/) is a client for [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us). [Tweaks](http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/01/171227) for [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) and Safari. [delicious2safari](http://tuxtina.de/software/) gets bookmarks from the service back into your browser. [Article](http://ask.metafilter.com/18984/Multiple-accounts-in-delicious) on using multiple [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) accounts with Safari. I found that having a folder on my desktop to store .webloc files was more useful than [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us)., which is why I only played with it for a while. My normal bookmark process is just to grab the address bar, drag it to the folder, and drop it in; instant bookmark. If I need tags, I Get Info on the .webloc and enter some keywords for Spotlight indexing. All I have to do is run a Spotlight search for something and either the file name (automatically generated from the title bar shown in the browser) will point to what I want, or one of my keywords will. The drawback is a folder with, at this point, about 2,000 little files in it. The advantage is that it only takes seconds for me to find something, if I’ve stored a bookmark for it. For example, yesterday I was chatting with a buddy, and ancient alcohol-making came up. I remembered something about [Sumerian beer](http://www.arachnyd.com/david/SumerianBeer.html) and [Egyptian wine](http://www.arabworldbooks.com/egyptomania/wine.htm). It took me about 5–10 seconds to find each of those bookmarks and throw them into the chat window. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312/24 "2007-07-05T02:07:16Z")
Shiira 2 is still in beta and not ready for prime time. Shiira 1.2.1 is great though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-mac-people-i-might-have-to-go-back-to-safari/410312.md?page=1)