Apple today released Safari 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience.
“Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. “Safari now runs on over 200 million devices worldwide and its open source WebKit engine runs on over 500 million devices.”
Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email.
Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.
Safari 5 adds more than a dozen powerful HTML5 features that allow web developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.
The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.
Pricing & Availability
Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5 can be found at www.apple.com/safari. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.
*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted by Apple in May 2010 on an iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Performance test.
MacDailyNews Note: Safari is not showing up in Software Update nor have Apple’s Safari pages yet been updated. Note to Apple: Make the thing available first, then issue the press release. Happy reloading, everyone!
[UPDATE: 7:50pm EDT: The saga of the premature press release has ended: Safari 5 is now available for download.]
Source: Apple Inc.
Is this a future press release because it’s not in the Software Update and the apple.com/safari page is for Safari 4 (as of 6:31 pm EDT)?
Yahoooooooo
I’m not see this using the Safari link above. Just Safari 4.
SlashGear just announced the release as well and their link takes you to S4 site- No Safari 5.0 anywhere to be seen.
Like the others have pointed out, Safari 4 still listed as the download.
It’s not there. Still listed as 4.0.5.
Psst… someone tell the time traveler who posted this article that Safari 5 ain’t been released yet, d’oh! The timelines will be polluted now!
Great way to market a built-in ad blocker!
No Safari 5 love here either. 🙁
Same here no 5
Whoa, is this from the future?
I got iOS6 instead, smellovision, yay
uhhhh… bing?
NO love here
Bing ain’t so bad. Especially bing cashback.
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I bet its going to be snappy!
Bing cash back will soon end. Did you miss the news?
Hey there chaps, sorry about this… took some Apple folks for a spin in the TARDIS, but brought them back on the wrong date. Whoops!
Don’t think this’ll case *too* much damage to the timelines… though, if you start seeing Daleks in your history books, well, let me know…
Booooo. Bait and switch!
@ macarina – I think “Come on…” knew that already and was being snarky.
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where is Safari 5? hm……
as of right now it’s vaporware.
it should be out within the next hour. Lots of updates for the webpage this week.
A phone booth just popped in my yard — the phone in it is running Safari 5. Wait a minute; it disappeared!
Apple’s not being too “snappy” right now. Can’t imagine this slip up. Can we blame AT&T;for this as well?
Imminent…
Really, it is.
Any minute now…
Imminent I tell you!