Safari: where is your Go button?

Jan 29th, 2008 // Blogging

Like many of you guys, it’s an usual thing to spend 1-2 hrs with your laptop on the bed, watching movies, browsing around or even check out your porn newsletters… I’m actually quiet happy with an off-keyboard experience - some mouse-clicking work, until I’ve encountered this: Safari does NOT have a GO button (both FF and IE does).

Safari without go button

It actually brought me another issue: I have to leaning on my pillow and hit Enter key. I just about installed that bitch Safari (no offense Mac user, I still love you!) for few weeks and this is all I get? Hello, Steve, focus! Yeah, I know. you’re about going to saying something like:

If you are changing the address, you usually need to use the keyboard, right? So if your nasty fingers are already at the keyboard, why not just hit Enter?

Well… you don’t get it, like I mentioned before, I really enjoy that moment of mouse clicking experience, comparing with Firefox and IE browsers so I’ve did a little research by googling, it seems there is no way to having that little green button back on Safari, I give up on this.

I’ve switch back to Firefox and try to keeping me happy. One thing for sure, I’m not judging the quality of Apple, personally I’m not familiar with OSX, please do let me know if there is some alternative way to make it happened. I’m glad that you can share it with me.

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  1. Uhm.. I think your impersonation of Steve was spot on. That’s exactly what he would say.. because that would be logical. No offense, but its pretty pointless if you just typed the URL in to not just hit enter. =)

    → Sam Brown // Jan 29th, 2008

  2. i new version firefox this problem is the same…

    → Glimm // Jan 29th, 2008

  3. I think they are going for the minimalistic approach. But you’re right, they should have an option to add it if desired.

    → Deaf Musician // Jan 29th, 2008

  4. I spoted the problem too and tried to find a go button for several times but failed.

    → Lunatic Sun // Jan 30th, 2008

  5. 刚看了一下,发现我的ff也没那个按钮, 囧~~~~~~

    → 漫步 // Jan 30th, 2008

  6. TO 漫步: ff的“转到”键往往都被设计成分割地址栏和搜索栏的那个圆点了，你可以试试点点看

    而Safari… 的确，我也遇到过好几次这样的状况，想用鼠标点一下结果他非要我用键盘。其实我是偶尔用鼠标右键+粘贴，然后理所应当点“转到”的嘛…
    不过 Mac 的易用和漂亮还是毋庸置疑啦～（寒假里我能用我的 iMac 了 =。=）

    → Jvstin // Jan 30th, 2008

  7. 连接给你做好啦····
    http://v08.pdmb.org/links/

    → }Ja{跑调麦霸 // Jan 30th, 2008

  8. @漫步，FF没有的话，至少可自定义让其出现，Safari….
    @Jvstin 打算买还是已经买了MBP了？好羡慕
    @Ja 非常感谢 :)

    → yichi // Jan 31st, 2008

  9. 呵呵，Leopard 刚出的时候我跑去买了 iMac～

    → Jvstin // Feb 1st, 2008

  10. Clearly if you typed the URL you can just press enter, but if you copied-and-pasted a URL into the address bar using the mouse, you don’t want to go to the keyboard just to press enter. Really annoying!!!

    → Andy Madge // Feb 4th, 2008

  11. I didn’t have the chance to use safari .. but is a nice tip.

    → Software // Feb 6th, 2008

  12. Use the reload button as the ‘Go’ button in a newly opened tab.

    → Wired // Mar 24th, 2008

  13. I noticed the missing button in firefox 3 as well. Personally I use the button quite frequently as a page refresh when I am developing a site.

    The problem with the refresh button that IE has, and perhaps the new refresh in FF, is that it wants to submit the form information again. What if I just want to GO to the same page again…. Does anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to just GO to the page you are on, essentially refresh it without re submitting the form information?

    → Jereme Guenther // Mar 28th, 2008

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