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But why does your parent commenter - a Mac user and web dev - not know this? It should be default or super easy and obvious


Even assuming these features would help stop phishing (which I don't agree with), you can't make every single feature super easy and obvious. In addition, you can't infer anything about a design from a single user's experience with it.

And frankly, the Settings window and the View menu are not obscure places to put these options. Those are the first places you should look if you're in a Mac app and want to configure the UI.


Agreed, which is why this should be the default.

If Safari was a 1:1 clone of Chrome but without (probably) sending my stuff to Google, I'd be all over it. Millions of other Mac users too. Instead I'm using Chrome on Mac just to get many websites to even work.


Why do we need yet another one clone of chrome? The majority of noticeable browsers nowadays are chrome clones. If you do not want to use chrome due to sending data to google, you can use chromium, brave, vivaldi, opera...


> Agreed, which is why this should be the default.

Uh, which part of my comment do you agree with? Clearly you disagree with something, because that's the opposite conclusion I came to.


Maybe he doesn’t use Safari because he dislikes it so much? Would explain why he doesn’t know about these options.


Parent commenter here. Before submitting that comment I literally checked once again to try and find these settings. I looked through the General, Tabs, Security, Privacy, and Websites settings. It didn't occur to me to look in Advanced for a display setting. I also looked through View, but never would have guessed that "status bar" is the name for the link preview feature.


Never assume anybody knows anything.




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