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Can I survive one week using Safari instead of Chrome?

I'm a diehard Chrome user, in large part because of its wide selection of extensions. As a Chrome user, I decided that it would be an interesting experiment to see if I could move to Safari, or at least survive a week.

In large part, this is a question of whether I can live with desktop Safari's very limited library of extensions. Yes, Safari has extensions. When Safari is open, click on Safari in the Menu bar on the top left, then hit Safari Extensions. That will take you to the Mac App Store where you can download and install extensions. They're there, but they're extremely limited both in quantity and capability.

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When Big Sur comes out, Apple expects to change that with their WebExtensions API . This API is meant to open up desktop Safari's access to extensions, providing an opportunity for far more extensions to be made available.

What's particularly interesting is that although Apple has announced that MacOS 11, the upcoming Big Sur release, will not support older Macs, the upcoming Safari release with WebExtensions will run on Mojave and Catalina , making the enhanced Safari available to older machines.

I wanted to conduct an experiment to see how much the addition of WebExtensions benefits productivity. To do that, I'm converting to Safari for a week, prior to the upcoming Safari release. I'm going to see whether I can live with the meager set of extensions available now. Then, a few months after the new Safari is released, I'm going to repeat the experiment to see how (or if) my productivity improves with the added extension selection.

Sunday morning

Okay. Here's the big step. I just went into System Preferences->General and changed my default browser from Chrome to Safari. And may the Lord have mercy on my soul.

My first stop was Safari Extensions on the Mac App Store. I went down the entire list (it's not very long) and chose those very few extensions that exist in both Chrome and Safari: Pocket, my password manager, Todoist, Evernote Web Clipper... and that was it. None of my other Chrome extensions (or extensions that do what my other Chrome extensions do) exist in Safari.

I jump between three or four Macs constantly, so it's important that all my bookmarks, launchers, and settings sync up. When I first launched Safari, I found that the couch Mac mini and my development machine had a completely different set of bookmarks.

This is fixable, fortunately. All it takes is a quick visit to System Preferences on each Mac. If you're using Mojave or earlier, go to the iCloud icon. If you're using Catalina, click the Apple ID icon. Then, just turn on the Safari sync option. Safari does sync, but as I discovered later, it doesn't sync everything. Not by a long shot.

The first real casualty of this test was Speed Dial 2 . While it works for Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, it doesn't support Safari. Fortunately, Safari's built in Favorites screen does pretty much the same thing. So I copied over links to all my most-used web apps and marked them as favorites in Safari.

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Tabs initially proved disconcerting in Safari. There were no favicons to separate and make the tabs easily identifiable. Fortunately, this feature was added in Safari for Mojave, so all it took was a visit to Safari Preferences->Tabs and clicking Show website options in tabs. Whew!

Ugh. Favorites sync between machines, but toolbar buttons, preferences, and extensions do not. I have to do the same setup process on Every. Single. Machine. Individually. Why?

It's later in the day now, and I've survived my first few hours in Safari without mishap. Today, I've mostly been using Gmail and YouTube. My only complaint is that the X that closes tabs is very difficult to see, with very low contrast, both in dark and light mode. It's much better in Chrome.

I just ran into a disappointing complication: there's a favorites bar, but no bookmarks bar. In Chrome I use the bookmarks bar for dropdown menus of all my actively used sites. I use the new tab page for quick-launches to my most used web applications. 

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But in Safari, you can only have a favorites bar. This does work the same as the Bookmarks bar in Chrome, even to the point of folders turning into drop-down menus. But, if you use favorites to create a quick-launch page for new tabs in Safari to compensate for the lack of new tab extensions, having a bunch of folders makes the new tab launcher much messier. 

On the other hand, I was able to easily use Safari to access the WordPress dashboard and support my open source users. It worked fine with my custom web search settings in Alfred . And my Shortcut Bar app, which I use for quick access to test sites, worked just fine, as did TextExpander .

My morning reading worked out fine in Safari. I did find a few annoyances because some of the Chrome extensions I rely on don't have equivalents on Safari.

Context Menu Search doesn't exist in Safari. This is an add-on I use multiple times a day to select a phrase, right click, and have it search Wikipedia or Amazon or YouTube or eBay or another of about 50 sites. I was reading a news article, and reflexively right-clicked on the name of someone I wanted to check out on Wikipedia, and the option wasn't there.

Sure, I can easily just search Google and drill on down, but it adds to the clicks and time spent, reducing flow and productivity.

I also find myself missing the StyleBot and Send from Gmail extensions. All the various website customizations and annoyances I removed in Chrome are back again in Safari, but there's nothing like StyleBot in Safari.

I regularly send articles I'm reading to associates. The lack of the Send from Gmail extension is adding more clicks. It's a minor productivity loss.

It turns out that if you right-click on the new tab page background, you can turn toggle favorites, most-visited sites, and Siri suggestions. I like a very predictable and personally-configured launch page, so I turned off the most-visited sites and Siri suggestions.

And, of course, I had to make that change on each machine since iCloud didn't sync those settings.

I totally miss the Copy Link Name extension , which copies the link text instead of the link itself. I use that constantly in my daily work. While there's a Copy Link option on the right-click menu, and a Copy option on the Edit menu, neither will just copy plain text.

Gmail seems ever-so-slightly more responsive in Safari. I haven't noticed any other big speed or performance gains from the switch.

Getting more used to Safari. Having more of my setup in place made it possible for me to just get started this morning without too much pain.

I did notice that there's no Close Tabs to the Right option. You can Close Other Tabs, but it's another minor productivity feature I find lacking. Ah, actually, there's a Close Tabs to Right in Catalina, but not the earlier Mojave. I'm running both OSs on my different machines.

I really miss Reopen Closed Tab . In Safari, if you close a tab, you can undo it. But if you wait a while or do other actions, you can't get your older tab back as easily. I wound up resorting to History to get back closed tabs.

Today I ran into a real productivity gotcha. Our corporate CMS is not running properly in Safari.

Some of you might say it's not fair to count a custom corporate app, since nobody outside the company is going to use it. But while my experience is unlikely to be shared by anyone not using ZDNet's CMS, if there's a compatibility issue for one application, there may well be issues for others.

So here's what's happening. Every time I make an edit in an article, the scroll position changes, bouncing up and down the page. I constantly lose my place and have to find it again. I've used this CMS every day for the past decade, so I'm pretty used to its behavior, and it's never done this in Chrome. Just to be sure this wasn't a bug introduced in the CMS in the last few days, I did open Chrome to test. Nope. Only in Safari.

Again, it's not a deal killer, but it's very annoying. My most recent edit took me more than twice as long in Safari than it normally does in Chrome. For a daily activity, that's a concern. 

Today's big win is that PHP debugging with PhpStorm works flawlessly in Safari. I can't say that I'm surprised, given how many coders prefer using Macs -- and all of them can't be using Chrome.

Okay, I can see it. The Safari development console is a definite win. I'm not going to go into the gory details because it would extend this article far too much, but suffice it to say that Safari has a rich selection of web development resources, a complete Developer menu, and some timeline diagnostic tools that are very helpful.

In fact, I can definitely see opening up Safari just to work with it when doing JavaScript and DOM development and debugging. Very nice tool.

Not much new to report except for the previously-mentioned insufferable page bouncing that occurs in Safari while trying to post articles in the company CMS. I actually launched Chrome to post my articles because I just don't hate myself enough to force myself to use Safari for that process. 

Interestingly, the page bouncing behavior seen in the CMS occurs on two separate Macs, and in both Mojave and Catalina.

To be fair, so far it's really the only unusable aspect I've found in Safari. Other behaviors and feature lacks are a bit annoying, but nothing else has proven to be unusable.

I've used Safari's Reader Mode on and off throughout the years when faced with a page that either wouldn't print right or was so full of junk it was unreadable. But if you're a Pocket user, you don't really ever need to use Reader Mode because Pocket does a great job of cleaning up articles and presenting them for offline reading.

Chrome does have some Reader Mode extensions. There's even a partially complete Reader Mode option you can turn on, but I do have to admit that Safari's implementation is the superior version.

Other than that, Friday has proven to be uneventful. I'm looking forward to ending my week tomorrow and coming to some final conclusions that I can share with you.

After a week, I've developed some level of muscle memory with Safari. I'm used to the tab close button being on the left of the tab instead of the right. I'm used to hitting undo to reopen a closed tab. And I'm generally used to the behavior of the browser.

That said, it's clear that I'm somewhat enthusiastically anticipating my return to Chrome. Safari has been tolerable, but that's about the best I can say about it.

My week of Safari experimentation is ending not with a bang, but with a "meh."

My conclusions

My fundamental conclusion is that extensions make the browser. I find Chrome a bit sluggish and annoying from time-to-time, but the rich selection of extensions provides a profound benefit to my productivity.

I expected to conclude that Safari is much faster than Chrome, but that was not the case. Additionally, the lack of extension availability made my Safari experience tedious.

WIth the exception of our homegrown CMS, I found Safari able to handle any website or application I threw at it. It worked fine with my development system. So, from a compatibility point of view, I have no complaints.

But the dearth of extensions was challenging. In my daily diary, I mentioned some extensions whose functionality I couldn't duplicate, but that barely scratches the surface of extension capabilities I missed. 

In Chrome, I'm running 57 extensions with features ranging from sending webpages via text messaging to optimizing my YouTube posting and SEO. Without that entire stable of extensions, some tasks were still doable, but at the cost of time. Other tasks were simply not doable at all, or required adding a whole bunch of steps and jumping between programs. Still other tasks -- especially those that customized behavior based on the contents of a webpage's document object model, were completely unavailable.

It's possible that when Safari implements the WebExtensions API in Big Sur that the selection of extensions will expand. But unless Safari grows the kind of extension library that Chrome has, it will be a poor substitute.

Now that my week of Safari is up, I'm returning back to Chrome. And I'm doing it breathing a sigh of relief. It's good to be back home again.

What about you? Are you running Safari or Chrome as your main daily driver? Have you tried the Chromium version of Edge? Do you think Big Sur's WebExtensions API will make the difference? Let us know in the comments below. 

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Can I have a "Speed Dial" or "Fast Dial" as my home page for Safari?

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Date | Saturday, May 31st, 2014

Improve your Chrome experience with Speed Dial 2

I dislike Google Chrome’s “New Tab Page”. It’s not aesthetically pleasing. Have a look at the image above. Can you see it? That’s Speed Dial 2. It’s by far the best replacement of the ‘New Tab Page”. Speed Dial 2 gives you access to your favorite sites with a gorgeous, customizable user interface. Besides that, you have a plethora of features like themes, recent History and quick Chrome Apps in the side bar and more.

At first, grab Speed Dial 2  from the Chrome Web Store by clicking  here . Once you’ve installed it, follow the short tutorial if you want, but I’ll run you through the steps anyway. Once activated, you have “+” button at the centre which can be used to add a bunch of websites you visit the most .

You can now add your favorite websites by adding the URL, Title, and Image. For some popular sites like Facebook, Gmail, Google etc., you already have a repository of images at your disposal, and Speed Dial 2 will automatically pick that up for you.

Being able to quickly visit your favorite sites upon opening a new tab is the core feature of Speed Dial 2, but there’s more to this beast of an extension. You can also glance through recent History and review Chrome Apps by sliding your cursor on the right hand side . As an example, I’ve demonstrated this below.

Customization and Options

Speed Dial 2 gives you great flexibility in choosing what you like and how you like it. By click on the Options  icon in the top right corner, you can choose from around 100+ themes, control the spacing between the “dials” and even use your own CSS to make things even cooler (applies to advanced users only).

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Accelerate is a Safari extension with powerful, customizable features for controlling video playback and speed. FEATURES • Control playback speed of HTML5 video • Personalize keyboard shortcuts for common media controls, e.g., play/pause, skipping, mute, Picture-in-Picture, etc. • Global shortcuts to control Safari playback while using other apps • Supports Picture-in-Picture and AirPlay • Works with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Twitch, and more CONTROLS By default, you can use the following keys on your keyboard to control video speed: D: Speed Up S: Slow Down R: Toggle Default Speed (1x) A: Toggle 2x Speed V: Show Current Speed P: Enter Picture in Picture You can customize these and create additional shortcuts for the other playback actions available in Accelerate. PRIVACY Accelerate never collects any personal data or identifiable information from you. Safari will show a general warning that the extension can read sensitive info from all webpages. This permission level is required for extensions like Accelerate in order to interact with the web pages you visit. For more details, please see Accelerate's privacy policy. Privacy Policy: https://ritam.me/projects/accelerate/privacy FAQ: https://ritam.me/projects/accelerate/faq/ GitHub: https://github.com/ritamsarmah/accelerate

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I am really enjoying the functionality of the extension. I use this as a medical student to more quickly navigate through lectures. One additional feature that would make this perfect for me would be menu commands to make universal keyboard shortcuts. An example this could be used is during recorded lectures and taking notes. If i miss a particular portion of the lecture audio and I need to skip backwards to get it, without exiting the note taking application, I would be able to do that. I cant tell you how much I am going in and out of applications when I just want to have a global shortcut for pause/play, skip forward and skip backward. Maybe Accelerate can do this and I just missed it. Great applicaiton none the less!

Its good for being one of the only fast forwards for safari

Im still a little confused sometimes on how to use it but the creator sent me to an faq page that helped me out. Im getting used to it, but it could still be a little clearer with instrcutions. though, it does what its supposed to do so it should get 5 stars. I also still dont like that it wans you that it could be steaking passwords, but the creator also explained that, and i guess ill just have to trust him if i want to watch netflix faster lol

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Hi userjlv, I promise that Accelerate doesn't collect any personal info whatsoever, and you can see an explanation for the warning in my privacy policy, since it's a common concern with many Safari extensions. If you need help with getting the extension to work, there is an FAQ available on the Accelerate website with troubleshooting instructions. (https://ritam.me/projects/accelerate/faq) If you have other questions, feel free to email me and I'd be glad to answer them.

MacOS ver.: VGood, iOS ver.: Default Settings only

Again, great implementation on MacOS, but since I started using the iDevice variant, a) every input setting on the General app tab refuses to acknowledge changes to the playback speed multipliers or increment; on the Shortcuts app tab b) every created shortcut ignores user input and reverts to DEFAULT settings, and c) every Standard shortcut that is edited either resists editing entirely or replaces the Standard shortcut with the Default values from a newly created shortcut (in order to preserve the Standard shortcuts, the app must be clean re-installed). If the speed notification corner or the Keyboard shorts in the Standard shortcuts were in conflict with our workflow, I'd have to find another solution. Thankfully, the Standard shortcuts and General settings are tolerable. thx

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How to speed dial on iPhone (8 ways)

On old feature phones and some Android phones, you can configure the numbers on the Phone keypad (like 2, 3, 4, up to 9) to speed dial a contact. This specific feature isn’t supported by the iPhone, but for folks who want to use something similar, you’re in luck.

Here are eight ways to speed dial on iPhone. And by speed dial here, we mean to call a friend or family member quickly without digging through your lengthy contacts list.

Use the Favorites as iPhone speed dial

The first method is to add some of your family members and friends to Favorites. From there, you can call them quickly.

Here’s how to add a person to Favorites and speed dial them:

1) Go to your iPhone contacts list in the Phone app.

2) Tap the person’s name.

3) Tap Add to Favorites > Call and tap the phone number .

4) Tap Favorites from the bottom left to access your favorite contacts. From here, just tap their name to call.

Like standard calls, you can also add FaceTime calls, iMessage, SMS, Mail, and third-party calls (like WhatsApp) to the Favorites. Choose these accordingly in step 3 above.

Alternatively, you can add favorite contacts by tapping the plus icon on the Favorites screen. And tap Edit to remove a person from Favorites or change the order (move a favorite contact up or down).

Ask Siri to fast dial

Another way to call someone quickly is to invoke Siri and ask it to do that for you. For example, say, “ Call Sebastien ” or “ FaceTime Sebastien .” In addition to your iPhone, you can also use Siri on your Apple Watch and AirPods to fast dial a person.

To make things easier, you can set up “ Hey Siri ” to call the voice assistant without touching your iPhone. After that, you can say, “ Hey Siri, call Sebastien .”

Related: How to teach Siri your family and friends relationships

Add speed dial to iPhone Home Screen

You can speed dial a person in just a single tap by adding a contact to your iPhone Home Screen using the iOS Shortcuts app. After that, you can instantly reach them by tapping their name or photo from the Home Screen. Out of all the methods listed here, this one is the quickest to speed dial someone on the iPhone. Here’s how to add a contact to your iPhone Home Screen and call them in one tap .

Add the contact to Today View

Today View is the screen you see when you swipe right on the first Home Screen page or the Lock Screen.

Here’s how to add the Contacts widget to speed dial from the Lock Screen:

1) Unlock your iPhone and swipe left on the first Home Screen.

2) From the bottom of the Today View, tap Edit .

3) Tap the plus button (+) from the top left.

4) Scroll down and tap Contacts .

5) Choose one of the three sizes and tap Add Widget . If you want to add more people (up to six), go with the largest size. Tap Done .

6) The Contacts widget should show you some contacts here. Most likely, they are the ones added to Favorites. To change this, press the Contacts widget and tap Edit Widget .

7) Tap an existing contact and choose a different one.

8) Tap anywhere outside the widget to dismiss the editing screen and save the changes.

9) To call anyone, access the Today View, tap the person’s contact and tap the call button.

Tip: If you want to add more than six people, follow the same steps and add the Contacts widget multiple times. Don’t forget to customize each with different contacts.

Note: The widget may blur out the contact’s picture on the Lock Screen. But the moment you lift your iPhone with Face ID, it should unlock the device and let you see everything properly in the Contacts widget.

In the same way, you can also add the Contacts widget to your iPhone Home Screen.

Speed dial from your Apple Watch face

Here’s how you can quickly get in touch with someone right from your Apple Watch:

1) Make sure your watch face supports complications. If not, you’ll need to  switch to a different watch face .

2) Press the watch face and tap Edit .

3) Swipe left until you reach COMPLICATIONS. From here, tap a complication location.

4) Scroll the list of complications and from under CONTACTS suggestions, pick a person . To select someone else, tap More .

5) Press the Digital Crown to exit the editing screen. You should see the person as a complication on the watch face. Tap it and then tap the call button to make a normal or FaceTime Audio call .

Use third-party speed dial apps

Besides adding the built-in Contacts app widget to the iPhone Home Screen, you can also add third-party widgets to speed dial a person. However, all third-party widgets have the following drawbacks (because of the way iOS is designed):

• It takes at least three taps to call a person from the Home Screen.
• After disconnecting the call, you will see that widget app on the screen, and you will have to exit that. This is one extra after step.

Here are some of the apps you can use to add contacts widgets to the iPhone Home Screen. All offer almost the same function with different visuals.

1) Call Widget Speed Dial Pro : This app lets you add up to four people on the iPhone Home Screen on speed dial. Once you download the app, tap Small or Medium from the bottom to add a widget. Make sure you add the desired contacts and save the widget. Next, follow the standard steps to add an iOS widget to the Home Screen and pick Call Widget.

2) Favorites Widgets Pro : The major highlight of the Favorites Widgets app is that it lets you add up to 20 people for speed dial on the iPhone Home Screen. Configuring the app is easy and the ability to customize the widget with the desired color and font are handy additions.

3) Widget Contacts : This is another suitable app to display your contacts on the iPhone Home Screen and speed dial in just a few taps. Please note that you can only add up to two people as favorites in the free version.

4) Bonus: QuickContact – One Touch Call : This doesn’t offer a Home Screen widget but lets you add several favorite contacts to a screen. For elders, it might be a decent experience to open this app and tap the person’s picture they wish to call. The app has several handy customization options to make it comfortable!

Use Emergency Contacts as iPhone speed dial

It may sound a bit absurd (because it is), but for the sake of information, I thought to put it out here.

You can add your family members or friends as your iPhone Emergency Contacts . After that, you can call these contacts by going to the power off screen > swipe right on Medical ID > tap the person , and it will make a call.

The downside is that it requires a few taps and every time you access your iPhone’s power off screen, Face ID or Touch ID are disabled, and you’ll have to enter your passcode manually the next time you want to unlock the device.

Related: How to set up your Medical ID on iPhone and Apple Watch

Use a jailbreak tweak

Finally, if you’re into jailbreaking your iPhone you can check the following guides and try the mentioned tweaks to add speed dial functionality:

• Get a T9 dialing experience in your iPhone’s Phone app with EasyDialer14
• CallPlus improves the Phone app on jailbroken iPhones
• QuickDial Pro brings 3D Touch-based speed dial to your iPhone
• QuickDial Lite adds speed dial features to your iPhone

iPhone speed dial

These are almost all the workarounds to get the speed dial feature on your iPhone.

In a future iOS version, it would be great if Apple adds one-touch Home Screen calls to the iPhone Home Screen or lets us configure the 1 to 9 keypad keys to set speed dial. Until that happens (if ever), I hope this tutorial offered you some new insights and helps you call your favorite people with fewer taps.

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• iCloud contacts missing on iPhone? Here are 8 solutions to get them back
• How to add or fix wrong “My Card” info in the iPhone Contacts app
• How to sync your iPhone to another iPhone or iPad

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