“Safari 6 packs relatively few new features for a major browser update, and most of its shiny new bells and whistles need Mountain Lion to run properly,” Nathan Alderman writes for Macworld.
“Like Firefox, Safari has consolidated URLs and searches in a single bar at the top of the screen. You search with Google by default, but can specify Yahoo! or Bing in preferences,” Alderman writes. “Unlike Firefox, Safari doesn’t keep a vestigial search box hanging out next to its all-in-one window for no apparent reason. I liked Safari’s useful, unobtrusive implementation of this idea.”
Alderman writes, “Under Mountain Lion, Safari 6 attains striking poise. The blue progress bar once stuttered across the URL bar; now it glides. Pages slide even more smoothly as you swipe (on a trackpad) to navigate. And the contents of a page seem to pour into place as it loads. Aside from an odd habit of a split-second fade-out and fade-in while the browser reloads a page you’ve just moved forward or back to, everything feels fast and fluid, even on a 2008 laptop. Apple has made Safari 6 on Mountain Lion the Mac’s most visually polished browser.”
Much more in the full review here.
Just bring the activity ‘window’ back! Please Apple. Thank you.
I know all about the ‘Develop feature’ ‘Show Page Resources’… but is a pain…
It’s not for download videos from YouTube only… I mean any ‘protected’ videos, photos, from any site.
RSS I don’t care… It’s obsolete anyway… But of I know and agree with this… The web is dying and F$%$ the browsers… long live the apps… but we not there yet.
RSS obsolete? What color is the sky on your planet? Are there elves?
Opinions may very, but I love it. I stopped using Chrome.
Safari 6 is SO SO SO much faster restarting than 5.x was (I always close it with 20-30 tabs active) that I can’t believe I ever waited so long fro the older version to start up before. Thanks, Apple!
I haven’t upgraded yet. I am afraid to, Safari used to be sleek but is now a bloated slow and junky mess. I really wish I could go back to an earlier version. I guess I’m wiling to try the new version but I’m not really excited about it. Maybe it’s less terribly slow but I doubt it’ll ever be sleek and nice like it used to be 🙁
Safari went from great to complete bloated junky crap. And it’s something I need to use every single day.. *sigh*
I keep an extra tab open just for search. It works for me.
Still a LOT slower than Chrome, in my opinion. Lots of pauses when pages load, compared to Chrome.
Enough with the eye Candy and file bloat. Bring back some functionality aka RSS.
Also, Glims is now Safari 6 compatible. In part, fixes the tab width mess Safari 6 introduced.
http://wiki.machangout.com/howdoi/glims-development-build
It’s less unstable than the previous version, but that isn’t saying much.
Like above, why lose the activity window and separate search window?
Why the drop of RSS? RSS is not obsolete as not every feed is on iTunes or other device.
Sounds like a horrible “upgrade”. I thought Safari 5.x was a terrible upgrade, but 6.x seems like it strips out anything useful in the program to make it a slightly faster but crashy version. No thank you.
If you are one the .001% of people who used this feature, just grab the Subscribe To Feed Safari extension to get your feature back. Extensions were added to Safari specifically so that features like this don’t have to be in the main build.
And you might want to look into this thing called Twitter. It lets you subscribe to various news feeds, like RSS, except it’s kind of a lot better.
Where is the Downloads window?
If its gone then Safari is gone for me.
Why would they remove it… Oh I get it grandma doesn’t need it!
Just click on the downloads icon in the upper right corner. The window pops up.
Safari 6 is a downgrade. A little faster, but crashes a lot. They took out the activity window. No history on searches I have to retype entire search phrase rather then change a word to get different results. If I could go back to version 5 I would. Apple screwed this one up.
“They took out the activity window”
That’s all I need to know. Now I know never to bother to upgrade to this version. Thanks DaVE.
Quoting BobM :
“Just CLICK on the DOWNLOADS ICON in the upper right corner. The window pops up.”
Emphasis is mine.
Install Glims if you want a functional search in Safari 6
My family has not experienced any Safari 6 crashes on our three Macs running 10.8 ML – 2007 iMac, 2011 MBA, 2012 MBP. Safari 6 seems to run a lot faster than Safari 5, which was admittedly a dog. I don’t miss any of the lost functionality (e.g., RSS feeds), and I like Safari 6 a lot so far.
Every time I scroll back and forward it reloads the page instead of instantly displaying it from the cache. Really annoying. Anyone know why they did this?
Agree. Don’t like that the page reloads then takes you back to the top of the page. If you have a long list of items that you’re looking at (like ebay), click on an item then hit the back button it takes you back to the top of the page. I know I can open the item in another tab or window but seems like extra work.
cheers
Safari 5 I had only 1 site that wouldn’t function and I had to switch to firefox to complete my business(pay my electric bill). Now I can add to that list, (can’t pay or even see my home insurance bill or auto insurance) had to switch to firefox to view and pay the bill. Seems Apple doesn’t even follow some standard web standards. The list is building on sites Safari doesn’t work with and I used to be a stanch Safari supporter.
Sorry, but Chrome is faster, easier to use, more stable, just better. How come that a company who creates a great OS and great hardware creates such a poor browser?
Chrome is definitely better. It’s hard to hold out. I really wish Apple would get their software skills up to par with the hardware.
Couldn’t agree more. Chrome is far and away better. I wanted to like Safari under Mountain Lion and gave it a try, but it’s NOTICEABLY slower and pokier loading pages. If you haven’t used Chrome, do yourself a bit favor. And it pains me to have to say this. I would prefer to use Safari to have common bookmarks with my iPad and iPhone, but not at the expense of slower performance on my Mac.
1. I can’t believe Apple hasn’t incorporated Glims/Saft-like functionality in Safari. I know Glims is now compatible, but really this should be part of Safari to begin with. Apple should buy them.
2. Even with Glims compatibility, it’s not as good as having a dedicate search box. The reason being that with the search box, you can leave the term in the box and then use it to select other search engines (as well as other uses). Apple should’ve left the search box in the Customize Toolbar options.
3. RSS. Good god, I can’t believe they removed this. Talk about taking several steps back and being a real deal breaker. No, RSS is not dead. In fact many apps make use of RSS feeds, and all podcasts in iTunes are RSS based. Now, you have to use another browser besides Safari to check those RSS feeds, which really sucks because with Safari, you could check those RSS feeds to Apple’s unique specs.
are you using still crappy safari? throw it away. chrome is the best. MDN seems to have a bias too much. they criticize all excepting apple. typical fanboy shit. stop it.
Couldn’t agree more. MDN’s credibility is not good. Safari sucks relative to Chrome.