Safari lacks crucial features found in Firefox

According to a June 4 report by The Apple Blog, Safari’s browser market share climbed to an all time high of almost three percent. Meanwhile, Firefox dominates Safari in the browser market, with a little over 30 percent market share.

Ever since the Safari 4 beta came out, Safari has been my browser of choice but it’s missing two distinct features that come with Firefox. Two features that will make it the must-have browser for Mac users.

First, why can’t I load multiple pages when I start a new session in Safari? Every time I open my browser it loads my start.io page upon which I immediately click on Tumblr, Twitter, The Huffington Post and a forum that I help run, why can’t I load all four at once in Safari instead of a single page? It’s a simple feature that you think would exist by now in Safari 4 but alas, it doesn’t.

Second, the ability to save browsing sessions and tabs when you quit out of Safari, is perhaps the biggest feature included in Firefox that’s missing in Safari 4. I shut down my computer when I throw it in my backpack, just to make sure that the harddrive and all of my files are safe. The idea of starting all of my sessions over again is a pain, one that I deal with now that I use Safari. If Apple added the ability to save sessions and tabs in the next version of Safari, I would delete Firefox, never thinking twice.

If Safari wants to increase its market share, especially now it runs on both Mac OS X and Windows, multiple tab sessions startups and the ability to quit and save your work are two features that absolutely need to be included in future versions of Safari and included as soon as possible.

Edit: On Twitter @roamin told me that a program called Glims adds the two features described above and more.

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