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• In Safari when filling out a form, you can’t tab to a drop down. Actually you can’t do it in FireFox either. What’s up with that? And as far as I can tell there is no easy way to quickly scroll through the list either.
• You can only resize windows from one corner. Let’s saw I have a window along the right edge, and I want to make it a little wider. Ideally I would be able to drag the left edge, but instead I need to drag the entire window over and then drag right using the little grip thingy.
• The inability to quickly switch between a couple of windows. Cmd-tab switches you between apps, but say for instance I have two terminals open side by side. When working I’ll often need to switch between the really quickly. I hate having to use my mouse in those instances, and I hate the fact that I have to memorize a specific “switch window” key combination for each app (if the app as one). For overlapping windows, Expose is annoying too. Expose works great for switching to a window that you haven’t used in a while and can’t remember where it is in the window stack. But Expose sucks for switching between the last couple of windows in the stack (where Windows’ Alt-tab sequence excells). Instead of a quick key combination that gets you there, you have a key combination that displays a bunch of windows, and then you need to search for the window of interest. And most annoying of all is that there doesn’t seem like an easy way to determine where a window may show up. And if you move a window around a little, Expose will show you the windows laid out all differently the next time you use it, and then you’ll need to play “hide and seek” with the windows again.

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