Posts Tagged ‘toolbar’

Safari is being used by many Windows users nowadays. Since its beta release, Safari has been tested on a different basis to find out whether it can make Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator and some others obsolete or not. Well, so far Safari has proved itself the fastest among all the available web browsers in the cyber market and it is still trying to earn extra points day by day. As the Safari has become quite popular today more and more internet users try it to experience the remarkable web surfing experience. There are a lot of new, unique and exciting features in Safari which instantly arrest the attention of users. But there are some loop holes which are responsible for the negative marking of Safari. One such loop hole is the way the fonts are being displayed on the toolbar.

Just below the address bar, there are different shortcuts which can take you to your favorite web page in no time. This is really a good feature, but some users find it hard to read the names of these shortcuts until and unless they roll their mouse cursor over these shortcuts. The reason behind this is that the background color and the font color of the caption are same. In fact, it seems that the caption does not have its own color, it is merely embossed. This bothers the Safari users, especially those who have poor eyesight. So they want something which is bright and easy to read.

Safari’s shortcuts on the toolbar

No doubt that Apple Safari for Windows is faster than Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, in fact initially this was the only feature which made me to shift from Firefox to Safari, but one thing which disappoints me is its toolbar.

I was expecting its toolbar as more user friendly including a lot of functions on it, but all I got was a messy toolbar which does not have all the basic features even. Seriously, the toolbar needs to be revised. There is no GO button, so one has to press Enter or Reload button to open the typed URL which is not at all convenient. Secondly, the Refresh and Stop button is same which creates a lot of confusion while surfing the web. There should be two different buttons for two different options. Now most disgusting thing of all is that there is no Home button and the back and forward button doesn’t show up the list of currently viewed URLs. I use these functions a lot and thus I am not able to use my Safari conveniently. The drop down list of visited URLs in the Address Bar is also missing. Safari’s tools should be restructured with all the basic features included and some advanced one also in order to get one step ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer.