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With one “update” it lost everything. Preferences, bookmarks, extensions. And I know what the hell I’m doing!
So, I alternate Safari with Firefox. ON THE DESKTOP
Firefox has more exensions (since Apple doesn’t police them)
And Firefox lets me drag URL’s from the URL bar. Safari makes me click to do it, offering the certificate instead, which I have used zero times, ever. I am all about reducing clicks.
Safari Reader is very nice, but I notice that when I ask Firefox to “print” (that is, print to PDF) it does so very cleanly, better than the “Redability” extension.
And better yet, Firefox lets me select “PDF” as my default printer, so I can say “print” and only have to click RETURN to save the page as PDF. Safari won’t let me default to “print to pdf” and all the wonderful safari extensions that did this are kaput.
ONE MORE THING.
Autopager works with Firefox, saving me hundreds of clicks on “next page”. I can’t get anytihing llike it on safari.
Just my two cents’ worth. I use them interchangeably, Both work with ghost text on the desktop, which is the greatest thing since sliced cheese. Look it up. It mirrors your typing in a text box (this one) to a text editor, which NEVER loses its text when the network hiccups and wipes out all your typing when you “resubmit” the page for preview or posting.
YET ANOTHER THING!
Safari "prints a web page" to PDF, consisting of one page only, whereas "Export to PDF" gets the entire web "page" even if it spans many pages. I was not expecting this (Apple is full of F-U surprises)
Preview and perhaps others give you the entire content (like a whole book's worth) gratis, when you print to pdf.
Firefox not only lets you set print-to-pdf as a default printer, but seems to ALWAYS print the entire content, ,amy pages long, unless you specify a range (IIRC)
It's easy to get mixed up when switching back and forth.
HTH
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