Today I upgraded Safari 5.1 to 6.0 on my Mac OS X Lion – not installed Mountain Lion, yet. So many serious problems I have never seen before arisen since then.

Extremely slow typeahead completion on address bar

With the new [address bar + search bar = omnibar] feature, auto-complete feature is at least a few times slower. I just open up a new tab, enter “fa” and hit Return very fast. Instead of auto-completing facebook.com in several milliseconds, I end up searching “fa” on Google.

My Google searches increased by 200/day thanks to this feature (!).

No RSS Button

Seriously, Apple? RSS is not dead. While browsing web, I come across many good blogs, just hit RSS button and subscribe them on my RSS reader. Now thanks to you, I have to copy the address, open up my reader, paste URL and pray for it to discover RSS of the website.

No HTTPS icon?

After a SSL-secure page gets loaded, https:// fragment is removed from the address bar and no icons, no colors, not any indication. I don’t know phishing is beaten by Google Web Security Tools or whatever but when I fill in some login forms, I tend to look at address bar and see https:// over there. Here’s what a SSL-website looks like now:

Can’t copy URL of Google Search results

If you search for something from the new omnibar, you are not able to copy URL of search results page to clipboard and send it to your friends whatever. I am not sure if it is just me or Apple wants to force people to purchase Mountain Lion and enable “Share” feature on Safari but this is annoying.

Frequent crashes

The browser has “silently” quit 8 times in 2 hours, not a crash window appeared. It was quite annoying once, it just crashed while I was filling out a form. However the day after I installed, crashes are now rare.

Rarely high memory - CPU burst

Yesterday I was surfing on a text-only website and I don’t have any serious daemon Safari extensions installed but CPU usage of the browser was constantly around %15 and real memory usage reached to 1.3 GB. What the hell?

Goodbye View Source (Cmd+Option+U) Window

Apparently they decided to put View Source inside the Inspector. It is colored and syntax-highlighted by default now, however I used to refresh view source window while developing web apps. That’s a design choice, of course but I didn’t like it all.

Xcode-like Inspector Redesign

Inspector (Cmd+Option+I) is totally redesigned. It looks like Xcode now (which is disgusting), they removed labels next to the icons, so it is monochromatic icon-only interface now. (Remember when buttons on Gmail were all icon-only and then they had to switch it back, because well, it sucked?)

With the new design of inspector, Cmd+option+I does not trigger DOM element selection tool by default. You need to click hand icon to do that (try to find it!). It is going to take some time to get used to this new inspector. (Chrome users: I hope this does not happen to you!)

Reading List not optimized

I am a frequent reader of online articles. So I queue at least 5-10 articles every day and my reading list has more than a thousand of archived items. The problem is, when I add a new article (on both OS X and iOS) synchronization is very slow (even frequently crashes on my iPad) and you usually get that message “Please wait your bookmarks are syncing.” Nothing changed so far on this, oh and about offline reading feature, I won’t use it because I switched Instapaper.

No Activity Window

If you don’t remember the good old lovely Activity Window (see screenshot) it was a neat tool to watch downloaded files on all tabs. However if you hit Cmd+Option+A, inspector will show up and it is not the same thing at all. You can’t see things loaded in order, continuing downloads on a page, errors, file sizes etc.

Goodbye little Activity Window!

Backspace is not for Back anymore

I was using this very rarely but I believe there are many keyboard-lovers were using backspace. There is no option to bring it back, so stick with Cmd+Left arrow and trackpad gesture.