I went back to using using Safari 4 and because I got sick of Firefox wasting so much screen real estate... It just looked clunky....
But even thought I returned with a certain ambivalence, as soon as I came back I discovered something for me will probably keep me with Safari forever no matter what: One of my pet peeves in computers is how screen real estate is wasted, and WOW you can make safari so minimalist.
If you press command-shift-| the entire location bar and buttons all disappear!!! All that remains up are the tabs (which are of course window title bar in Safari). Pretty sleek!
So you ask, what if you want to open a new site or something? Well easy, you type command-l (as in lambda) and the location bar comes back with cursor focus in the location bar. You type in the URL and the location bar disappears all by itself!
If you need to search you just hit tab after control-l to move the cursor to the search box. Again, after you hit return the location bar disappears.
If you ever want the location bar back for a while, you just hit command-shift-| again. This really just toggles the location bar from sticky-on to non-sticky.
This along with command-/ (which toggles the status bar) means the whole browser takes up no room at all.
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