![]() You can break these out into separate windows by clicking and dragging the tabs, same as with most modern web browsers. Conversations with different people show up in a single, vertically tabbed chat window (see above), which allows you to easily switch between conversations without switching between windows. In use, iChat now presents you with a unified buddy list, with friends across all protocols showing up in one window instead of multiple windows. These plug-ins need only be downloaded and double-clicked to be installed. It's all about adding support for different chat protocols, and to this end iChat in Lion adds support for Yahoo! Messenger and video chat, and also for the addition of other protocols via plug-ins. IChat is still largely the same program it has been for some time, but it adds some enhancements it needs to protect itself from web clients (Google Talk, Facebook Chat) on one hand and existing third-party all-in-one clients (Adium, Trillian) on the other. This generally works pretty well if you want to use the client apps, though I prefer to stick to web clients where possible. The second is less interesting, but still useful - logging into a recognized email service (such as Gmail or Yahoo!) will invoke a dialog box asking you if you’d like to setup the account with OS X - this will sync your mail, calendar, and contacts for you (if the services are available from your email provider). Initiating a new download makes the file visually fly up to the button (more of OS X’s visual frippery), and you click this button to check on your downloads’ status (a small progress bar is visible at all times to give you a general sense of how your downloads are going).Īs a heavy Chrome/Firefox user, I hope Google and Mozilla are paying enough attention to create their own versions of this. The best of these is a new download manager, which instead of being a separate window (IE, Firefox) or tab (Chrome) is a clickable drop-down window located in the upper right-hand corner of the browser window. ![]() In Lion, however, Safari gains a few new OS integration features that probably won’t be backported. Snow Leopard is going to get the new Safari 5.1 when it comes out, so its users will be able to take advantage of JavaScript performance gains, support for new standards, and the security patches included in most new browser releases.
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