Missing features in Safari Windows

I was intrigued by the 1.6 performance increase over firefox, but unfortunately have been disappointed by missing features I have grown to love in firefox.
Here are the things I wish Safari supported:
1) google suggestions in the google search box
2) the ability to close a tab by clicking my mouse wheel
3) support crtl + ent and crtl + alt + ent to automatically changing wikipedia to http://www.wikipedia.com as an example
4) when I highlight the url it doesn't highlight the entire url; instead it places the cursor in the url where I clicked
5) And the big one is the ability to restore my session.
I am still impressed how fast safari is compared to firefox, which is definitely noticable, but without my favorite features I don't see using safari.
Are these features present in Safari and I am just missing them? Perhaps there is a roadmap to implement these features? I hope so.

4) when I highlight the url it doesn't highlight the entire url; instead it places the cursor in the url where I clicked
Click on the little icon before http:// and the whole address bar will be selected.

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In the first part of my post I already said I was aware that "ctrl-click (or cmd-click or RMB-click)" would make the hierarchical dropmenu appear, both in SL and Leopard.
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Exerpt...
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etc.
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Easy backup of music files from android
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sjtp wrote:
The thread is intended to keep together a list of BT Cloud features that people would like but that are not present. It is sometimes difficult to keep buts and missing features apart; if posting please try to keep to the 'missing features' subject. While I can, I will edit this first post rather than adding extra posts as I add extra comments.
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~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~
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etc.
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NOSFERATU 75 wrote:
Mark Suhr wrote:
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Not sure what you are referring too... If I tap the screen once to get the commands to come up and then tap the shuffle icon, it changes from blue to white depending on whether shuffle on or off.
somehow, i can't reproduce it now. a friend showed me and i tried myself agreeingly. now it works ;>| - let you know when i find it again
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Not sure what you are refering too.... using the IPT for storage or using a USB key for extra space to store on the touch
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply, Pierre.
Just in case anyone is wondering, I didn't write this script, I found it somewhere online and then promptly forgot where. However, it doesn't work very well if I have other windows in other spaces, so I wanted to see if I could figure it out.
It's still not working correctly, it seems to work the same way as before:
--When in Safari, the coordinates {0,0} refer to the upper corner not including the menubar.
set theTargetIDs to {}
tell application "Safari"
set theIDs to id of every window
set theIDs to reverse of theIDs -- to keep the initial stacking order
repeat with thisID in theIDs
set index of window id thisID to 1 -- try to change the index value
if index of window id thisID is 1 then -- the window is in the current space
copy (thisID as number) to the beginning of theTargetIDs
end if
end repeat
theTargetIDs -- from front to back - the windows that are in the current space
set n to (count of theTargetIDs)
-- Determine screen size of your machine
tell application "Finder"
set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop
set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize
set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize
end tell
-- Dividing by zero is bad
if n is equal to 0 then return
set windowWidth to screenWidth / n
if (n > 0) then
activate
set x to 1
-- Position each window in turn
repeat
tell window x
set bounds to {windowWidth * (x - 1), 0, windowWidth * x, screenHeight}
end tell
set x to x + 1
if x is equal to (n + 1) then exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end tell
Am I missing something? I don't think that script is selecting only the windows in the current space- it's still tiling in every space. Can you take a look?
Sorry for my incapability to help myself. :S
Thank you.

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