Apple today released Safari 6 for OS X Lion which contains new features, including:
• 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.
Safari 6 for OS X Lion also includes improvements to stability, compatibility, usability and security, including changes that:
• 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.
Safari 6 for OS X 10.7 Lion is available via Software Update.
Not loving the unified search field. I’d rather keep search and web addresses separate. Safari’s address bar now looks like Michael Dell’s unibrow.
Well said BLN.
Recently saw one of the iPhone ads and couldn’t help think that Steve Jobs taste seems to be missing. Same goes for new version of Safari. Doubt he would have allowed the unibrow tab (or dropping of RSS support).
Where’s Jony?
Removing the RSS feature from Safari 6 makes no sense. Send feedback to Apple – http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
Plenty of bug reports/feature requests were sent during the Appleseed testing process since the first built. I don’t think we can get it back…and I’ve seen no good explanation for it. It’s a big unknown as to why this was killed in safari.
Removing RSS from Safari makes some sense when one considers that Mail supports RSS
Actually, in Mountain Lion, Mail no longer supports RSS. Google reader or other 3rd party is the only (not acceptable) option.
Open the app store app type rss into the search, a page and a half of support right there. Clearly this is a feature Apple felt other did better/People just don’t use.
That’s not the point. It’s not that one can read RSS in the browser that matter but when you stumble across a page you want to subscribe to, even in an external RSS client as I do with NewNewsWire, you can no longer click to get it to subscribe in your offline reader.
This is crucial, because even if the site author has helpfully put an RSS feed button on the site itself, if they have things like separate comment feeds they generally do not put separate buttons for those as well. Even the helpful extension will not deal with multiple RSS feeds on a page which Safari did well.
So a. I can attest to the fact that I for one used it and b. that nobody has actually replicated the functionality, even in an extension, so far.
I also much preferred the separate search box. Just because Chrome unified it is not reason for Apple to have to ape them.
I like the convenience of reading the RSS feeds right in the browser, especially as it makes it easy to open posts I want to read in more detail—without having to switch back and forth between two applications.
Apparently convenience is no longer a consideration?
Does Autofill actually work properly?
Is anyone else having a bad experience so far with Safari 6?
I’ve disabled all my Safari Extensions just to get MDN to load.
Mostly page loads half way and never completes.
I now I notice that there is no longer (that I can find anyway) “Show Activity” where you used to be able to see what was hanging up a page load. The new web inspector looks powerful, but even that isn’t revealing “activity” the way the pre-6 versions did.
Very first time I fired up Safari 6 it was chugging along… but all seams to work fine.
I turned off .js blacklist and am trying Do Not Track plus instead. (7 blocked on MDN btw..)
I don’t have any issues yet.
Extensions running fine for me:
Ghostery
youtube5
click to flash
Do Not Track plus
AdBlock
Reload button
NoMoreiTunes (Prevents safari from ALWAYS opening iTunes when you see the website preview)
only problem I see is the dynamic tab bar, not liking it so far. unified search… meh, it works. not my first choice but it doesn’t bother me that much.
One odd thing I just noticed.. I used to be able to drag this text box to see all I just typed instead of scrolling… I can’t now. Not sure it’s Safari or not, it’s happened before. (it came back)
Still looking for the update to arrive
Installing Mountain Lion. Never used RSS. Reserve comment on tabs. No need for Lion update at this time.
Love the unified search bar. One more piece of clutter gone. Good riddance!!
Everything looks great. No problems loading MDN at all.
Did they get rid of the ridiculous Oh I have refresh all the open windows if you want to see this page bullshit?
MDN does not resize to fit in the window. It just stays “full size” and I have to scroll right and left to see the whole page.
If you loved usIng the Activity Window (for grabbing Flash videos without extra software) you may wan to think twice before downloading. It has gone away, so at least find a flash video downloading app you like before upgrading.
YouTube 5 does this, granted I did not check that today after updating..
You could always install Firefox as a backup browser (I do for some sites that YouTube 5 does not work.. ) And use something like download helper to download any video from any source.
I would like to draw some attention that may or may not have been noticed by others.
I upgraded to OS X ML ( big download as expected). Then I had to upgrade Aperture (nearly 2GB).
Once that was all done, I went onto Google to look up some song lyrics, and I got a warning that my computer has been using too much bandwidth and I had to enter a code to prove I am a human not a computer, and this page also displayed details to my OS/computer/browser, etc….
HOW THE FKCU did google know I chewed up bandwidth? These upgrades used my ISP bandwidth and Google/Safari was never involved.
How did they get this information?
I never agreed to allow them to gather this or to log it. What are they doing with this information? By entering the code i saw, this is an electronic confirmation that a human understood what they saw and proceeded meaning the warning log confirms a user on my computer responded to this message. THIS CANNOT be legal, can it?
Anyone else facing these problems? I seriously believe rights are infringed on. Anyone know who a person can lodge such a complaint to? Sorry for not knowing , I am clueless.
It sure feels like Google is Big Brother from Nineteen Eighty Four!
here is a link to a copy i took of the screen
sorry for such a big post.
You are using google as a proxy for web traffic
Ask your service provider for settings that will avoid this
nikonfoxx, you are misreading the Google message. They are unaware of your bandwidth usage. They are saying that during your session your user agent behaved in a manor they felt was suspicious (probably preloaded a ton of pages to help speed up display). They called it “unusual traffic,” not “too much traffic.” =)
It could be possible, though my Safari usage had been pretty minimal the last few days. I know the same message would always show up if I was downloading torrents… Regardless, none of that has to do with my Google usage, and therefor is none of their business.
Not sure what happened, but when I went to install Safari 6, it also said there were a bunch of other apps that had updates, including iPhoto, iMovie and iWork. Went ahead and downloaded, and now my machine is all weird — acting like I installed the new OS (which I didn’t). My desktop set-up shifted, I got a notice that some of my software was “incompatible” with the “new” OS, and some weird process — NetAuthSysAgent — was taking up 99% of my CPU cycles.
After restarting once, then restarting again in safe mode, I’m still using about 80% of my CPU cycles on system software (a program called “hiutil,” which apparently indexes help pages) with only one app open, Safari 6.
Did anyone else get prompted to update a bunch of apps?
Does anyone out there have a clue what’s going on with my computer??
Personally, I’m at a loss…
I had like almost 3gb’s of updates, I forget what they all were.
As I said earlier, Safari 6 was VERY slow when it first fired up.. Beachballs everywhere just loading my home page.
lasted for about 2 minutes and all is fine now.
My system is running fine, haven’t restarted or anything though. and like I said I can’t think of all the updates. iMovie and iPhoto I think i saw were two.
I don’t have that hiutil running on mine. maybe try stopping it and see if things start working again..
ok, possible issue with Safari 6.. or maybe my settings are screwed.
I just clicked on a link to an album on Amazon.. and clicked the little Play button to play a sample of the song.
Safari Downloaded the file instead.. I then opened the file and it started playing in iTunes.
Yesterday the sample would have played in Safari..
You need to have Flash enabled to preview songs within the Amazon website. Otherwise, it will download an M3U file (streaming URL) and open with iTunes, the default application for that file type.
Never noticed that before.. must have been a recent version of flash released. I turned click to flash off, and it told me I was blocked from playing until I updated Flash..
I added amazon to the play flash list and turned click to flash back on, works now.
Still running Lion, but out of curiosity, I updated Safari to 6. If you like your bookmarks’ favicons, think twice, as they all disappear whenever you clear the browser history. Apparently, clicking “Clear History” in Safari 6 does considerably more than it did before.
For those of you who will scoff, “Who cares about favicons
(sorry, acclidentally cliched Publish)
… well, many of us find them very useful. They help me find individual bookmarks more quickly out of a long list. Besides, they add a bit of character and personalization to an otherwise droll list of things that all look alike without them.
I can think of no valid reason why Apple engineers thought this is a good idea. How does this enhance security, or anything, for that matter?
Thanks, Apple. You just can’t leave well enough alone, can you?
Hopefully this “feature” is a bug that will be fixed in Safari 6.1. Until then, however, I want to go back to Safari 5.
Okay, rant over.
spj, I can see your concern there. As a developer, though, not being able to clear favicons once they are grabbed is a big deal. Can’t tell you how many times I have been frustrated with the inability to clear out an old development favicon in favor of a new one. That’s no doubt why the added the ability to remove them. Haven’t tinkered with Safari 6 yet, though I have it at home, so can’t speak to their implementation of this.