3 Reasons Safari is not my default browser, yet.

Unfortuntately, Chrome is still my preferred browser, regardless of my desire to maintain the Apple ecosystem.  Here's why:
Prevention and Recovery: I'm on of those shortcut gurus. I use the 'Cmd+W' and 'Cmd+Alt+W' religeously.  So there are times when I accidentally hit 'Cmd+Q'  .  Chrome has a way to recover easily with 'Cmd+Alt+T', restoring all tabs in sequential action.  I wish Safari could incorporate this.  Then there is a Quit-Prevention feature that requires I hold Cmd+Q for atleast 3 seconds in order to execute a quit.  This is a simple, yet priceless feature...hopefully its not patented.  Apple can only undo a single tab currently.
BookMarks:  While no program has really revolutionized the organization of this feature, I like how bookmarks can be simplified and easy to recognize by their respective icons: 
Seeing those icons in the dropdown list also speeds up locating them.
User Profiles:  Chrome allows me to have different browser profiles.  So my friend can log into her gmail easily if she needs to use my computer briefly and have access to all her bookmarks, styling, and preferences.  This is great since I don't need to create another user account on the mac.  I think iCloud profiles would be a nice integration into Safari.
Any plans to implement these?

Jay ...
If you want, you can provide feedback to Apple here.
No one but Apple is privy to information regarding changes to future OS X software including Safari.

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