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Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 09:46 am
Apple releases Safari 6 with offline reading for OS X 10.7 Lion
For those with OS X 10.7 Lion who aren't ready to upgrade to Wednesday's release of Mountain Lion, Safari 6 is now available for download, though a Windows version of Safari 6 remains absent.Safari 6 for Lion can be downloaded through Software Update in OS X. New features of Safari 6 highlighted by Apple include:
- Smart Search Field. Safari now has one field for typing both searches and Web addresses.
- Offline Reading List. Safari saves entire webpages in your Reading List so you can catch up on your reading even when you don't have an Internet connection.
- Do Not Track. Safari can send the websites you visit a request not to track you online.
- Password pane. Manage your saved website logins with the new Password pane.
- Baidu. The leading Chinese search engine Baidu is now a built-in option for Chinese users.
In addition to new features, Safari 6 for OS X Lion also includes improvements to stability, compatibility, usability, and security. These changes:
- Make the swipe to navigate gesture work with PDFs.
- Restore the state of Reading List when Safari is launched.
- Fix an issue that affected full screen video in webpages that have positioned content.
- Restore the user's previous cookies after Private Browsing without requiring a Safari relaunch.
The last update to Safari, version 5.1.7, arrived for Lion users in May. It automatically disabled old versions of Adobe's Flash player that don't have the most up-to-date security features.
Safari for Windows was not updated on Wednesday, but version 5.1.7 remains available for download from Apple's site.
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Said it before, but it's more relevant here: I hope I'm not the only one that hates what they've done with tabs, and I certainly hope I'm not the only one that thinks Tab View is completely and utterly wrong in its execution. It needs to be a grid, like Top Sites.
It is a little perplexing why they've went for a horizontal (almost Microsoft Metro-like) scrollable strip.
Oh wait... excuse to use multi-touch scrolling. Never mind. :-D /s
Did they drop RSS support?!
Said it before, but it's more relevant here: I hope I'm not the only one that hates what they've done with tabs, and I certainly hope I'm not the only one that thinks Tab View is completely and utterly wrong in its execution. It needs to be a grid, like Top Sites.
What do you dislike about tabs?
What do you dislike about tabs?
Instead of being a uniform size until the entire bar is full, they start as the full bar, cutting in half as you create more tabs, until it runs over.
I can't stand the new tab view either. I liked the small tab so it was easy to double click to the right of it for a new tab. Now the tab is virtually the whole width of the Safari window with the plus sign to the far right. I've loved Safari so far but may have to look to Firefox now. Would rather they give us an option to have the regular tab view back though. Glad I'm not the only one, first thing I noticed.
Has RSS been completely removed?
Can anyone recommend an RSS reader. Always used Safari and have been very happy with it.
Shame to see it go.
Now that everyone can have Safari 6, I'd ask that everyone goes here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
And request they BRING THE ACTIVITY WINDOW BACK.
Yes...Apple abandoned RSS. Perplexes me. That was one of Safari's compelling features. Really like being able to keep up with RSS within the browser. Don't understand why Apple would encourage a user to leave Safari to get their RSS content. RSS is used by many sites.
At the moment, Reeder and Netnewswire are viable RSS options (via App store).
As posted here earlier, send feedback to Apple. Personally, I'd like to see the RSS function return.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
I can't stand the new tab view either. I liked the small tab so it was easy to double click to the right of it for a new tab. Now the tab is virtually the whole width of the Safari window with the plus sign to the far right. I've loved Safari so far but may have to look to Firefox now. Would rather they give us an option to have the regular tab view back though. Glad I'm not the only one, first thing I noticed.
Does hiding the Tab bar not address what you're talking about?
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Said it before, but it's more relevant here: I hope I'm not the only one that hates what they've done with tabs, and I certainly hope I'm not the only one that thinks Tab View is completely and utterly wrong in its execution. It needs to be a grid, like Top Sites.