Apple Releases Safari 6 Update for OS X Lion - Page 2

mrbyu · 09:35 AM

Hm... just updated on Lion (with ML I'm not in a hurry, I'm gonna update in the next few days). The huge tabs and the reader button look a little strange at first, but I think you just have to get used to it. One thing I really miss from Chrome is that if you have more opened tabs and you want to close them, they don't shrink until your mouse hovers over the X button, so you can just keep closing them without always moving your cursor.

The new pinch gesture for tab switching unfortunately doesn't work under Lion.

But hell it is a LOT snappier

And best of all: Top Sites finally seems to work nice and smooth, it doesn't freeze and always highlights the pages without having to move the cursor around!

azentropy · Jul 25, 2012, 09:32 AM

Does 6 still have RSS support?

beltzak · Jul 25, 2012, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jabingla2810

We will.

We used to, not anymore.

theosib · Jul 25, 2012, 09:42 AM

Great. Lots of new features. But let me guess. It still has massive memory bloat, and it still reverts your Google searches to whatever you typed into the address bar, not what you typed on the Google page. Any other non-fixed bugs?

dejo · Jul 25, 2012, 09:44 AM

Is it just me, or does hitting the 'delete' key no longer go back a page?

kissmo · Jul 25, 2012, 09:47 AM

Activity VIEW window disappeared.... sooo disappointing...

Navdakilla · Jul 25, 2012, 09:52 AM

Haven't had a chance to download it yet, but any idea if youtube works smoothly?

I ended up switching over to chrome only for the reason that youtube videos embedded in sites would never work properly. And typically on a average web browsing day I would come across 20-30.

Jessica Lares · Jul 25, 2012, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackboxxx

And nobody noticed that Apple just quietly killed Safari for Windows? Good riddance.

That leaves iTunes as the last remaining Apple software for Windows.

I just heard. I'm really happy that they came to that decision in the end. It was never meant to be and I'm pretty sure a lot of money went wasted into developing it. iTunes is great on Windows, so is Quicktime, but that's as far as it should go.

rtues-d2 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by dejo

Is it just me, or does hitting the 'delete' key no longer go back a page?

Nope, not just you. Don't know how I feel about that one...I guess they really are trying to make the trackpad as big a feature as possible.

steve-p · Jul 25, 2012, 10:09 AM

Ugh. Don't care much for the expanding tabs, or the omnibar.

diddl14 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by azentropy

Does 6 still have RSS support?

Just had a intensive WTF moment finding out it doesn't...

musio · Jul 25, 2012, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kissmo

Activity VIEW window disappeared.... sooo disappointing...

You're kidding!? This was the best way to download files.... Any alternative?

rtues-d2 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Navdakilla

Haven't had a chance to download it yet, but any idea if youtube works smoothly?

I ended up switching over to chrome only for the reason that youtube videos embedded in sites would never work properly. And typically on a average web browsing day I would come across 20-30.

So far, I've just gone on YT directly but it's been smooth as butter. When people say it feels snappier, they aren't lying.

Mr. Retrofire · Jul 25, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anzio

Where's the Windows version? Is Safari Mac only again?

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1539

Some features are only in the ML-version:
http://www.apple.com/safari/#tabs

AnonMac50 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackboxxx

And nobody noticed that Apple just quietly killed Safari for Windows? Good riddance.

That leaves iTunes as the last remaining Apple software for Windows.

Don't they still offer QuickTime (which IMO is a major fail on Windows).

mdimovv · Jul 25, 2012, 10:25 AM

Anybody know how to revert back to 5.1.7?
I'm using MacBook Air 2012, and 5.1.7 was a lot smoother at scrolling than
6.0.
Thanks!

DJJAZZYJET · Jul 25, 2012, 10:25 AM

Thought i'd try the new safari whilst mountain lion downloads, and I have to say, it feels snappier (get mad haters :P) Scrolling is much smoother, even in lion, but looking closely I can still see little choppy bits, but with mountain lion I think core graphics got updated,.

AnonMac50 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:27 AM

They released Safari 5.1.7 today for Windows.

hamkor04 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessica Lares

I just heard. I'm really happy that they came to that decision in the end. It was never meant to be and I'm pretty sure a lot of money went wasted into developing it. iTunes is great on Windows, so is Quicktime, but that's as far as it should go.

Safari is my main browser dispite ist used to be slover than chrome. But not on windows machines. I can't agree more with you Jessica. It was totaly wast

Sven11 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Edgecrusherr

Sorry Apple, Lion/Mt Lion doesn't cut it in my production environment! (Print company).

You should upgrade. Apple stopped support for Snow Leopard. There will be no security updates anymore.

anshuvorty · Jul 25, 2012, 10:50 AM

just checked software update on os x lion and I don't see the updated safari release, where is it?

blackboxxx · Jul 25, 2012, 10:53 AM

Address bar now hides http/https prefix and makes the path after domain name light grey, it's nearly invisible. I guess that's the trend now, with Chrome and Firefox doing the same thing, IE9 being the exception.

That prefix hiding, by the way, is very annoying if you access a site over https that has some content (images, scripts, ads) delivered over plain http. In this case you get no indication that the main page uses https whatsoever.

Maybe there's a hidden pref somewhere to disable this nonsense and bring back the old behaviour?

diddl14 · Jul 25, 2012, 10:54 AM

Looks like scrolling in pages with animated GIF's finally seem to work smoothly.

blackboxxx · Jul 25, 2012, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AnonMac50

They released Safari 5.1.7 today for Windows.

Nope, 5.1.7 was released a couple months ago.

If you go to the Safari download page, http://www.apple.com/safari/download/, you get redirected back to http://www.apple.com/safari/ and there's no download link.

On http://www.apple.com/downloads/ there's no longer any mention of neither Safari nor QuickTime.

It's official, Safari for Windows is dead.

blackboxxx · Jul 25, 2012, 11:22 AM

By the way, it's interesting to note that there are still RSS images in the app bundle, and they even have retina versions.

Jul 25, 2012, 09:28 AM	#26
mrbyu macrumors member Join Date: Jul 2011	Hm... just updated on Lion (with ML I'm not in a hurry, I'm gonna update in the next few days). The huge tabs and the reader button look a little strange at first, but I think you just have to get used to it. One thing I really miss from Chrome is that if you have more opened tabs and you want to close them, they don't shrink until your mouse hovers over the X button, so you can just keep closing them without always moving your cursor. The new pinch gesture for tab switching unfortunately doesn't work under Lion. But hell it is a LOT snappier And best of all: Top Sites finally seems to work nice and smooth, it doesn't freeze and always highlights the pages without having to move the cursor around! Last edited by mrbyu; Jul 25, 2012 at 09:35 AM.
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Jul 25, 2012, 09:42 AM	#29
theosib macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	New features, but none of the serious bugs fixed Great. Lots of new features. But let me guess. It still has massive memory bloat, and it still reverts your Google searches to whatever you typed into the address bar, not what you typed on the Google page. Any other non-fixed bugs?
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Jul 25, 2012, 09:44 AM	#30
dejo Demi-God (Moderator) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado	Is it just me, or does hitting the 'delete' key no longer go back a page? __________________ My iOS Apps: a.k.a., DreamStream I support the MacRumors Blood Drive!
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Jul 25, 2012, 09:47 AM	#31
kissmo macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2011	Activity View Activity VIEW window disappeared.... sooo disappointing...
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Jul 25, 2012, 09:52 AM	#32
Navdakilla macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Canada	Haven't had a chance to download it yet, but any idea if youtube works smoothly? I ended up switching over to chrome only for the reason that youtube videos embedded in sites would never work properly. And typically on a average web browsing day I would come across 20-30. __________________ New convert, and never turning back!!!
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Jul 25, 2012, 09:32 AM	#27
azentropy macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Surprise	Does 6 still have RSS support?
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:09 AM	#35
steve-p macrumors 65816 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Newbury, UK	Ugh. Don't care much for the expanding tabs, or the omnibar.
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:25 AM	#41
mdimovv macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2012	Anybody know how to revert back to 5.1.7? I'm using MacBook Air 2012, and 5.1.7 was a lot smoother at scrolling than 6.0. Thanks!
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:25 AM	#42
DJJAZZYJET macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2011	Thought i'd try the new safari whilst mountain lion downloads, and I have to say, it feels snappier (get mad haters :P) Scrolling is much smoother, even in lion, but looking closely I can still see little choppy bits, but with mountain lion I think core graphics got updated,.
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:27 AM	#43
AnonMac50 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Mar 2010	They released Safari 5.1.7 today for Windows. __________________ [Tutorial] Three Finger Drag on Non-supported Multitouch Macs (UPDATED!!! (18/1/2013)) Front Row for Lion Now I know why the maps icon wants you to jump off of a bridge!
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:50 AM	#46
anshuvorty macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2010	just checked software update on os x lion and I don't see the updated safari release, where is it?
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:53 AM	#47
blackboxxx macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2008	Address bar now hides http/https prefix and makes the path after domain name light grey, it's nearly invisible. I guess that's the trend now, with Chrome and Firefox doing the same thing, IE9 being the exception. That prefix hiding, by the way, is very annoying if you access a site over https that has some content (images, scripts, ads) delivered over plain http. In this case you get no indication that the main page uses https whatsoever. Maybe there's a hidden pref somewhere to disable this nonsense and bring back the old behaviour? __________________ about 6 stickers with  on them
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:54 AM	#48
diddl14 macrumors regular Join Date: Aug 2009	Looks like scrolling in pages with animated GIF's finally seem to work smoothly.
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Jul 25, 2012, 11:22 AM	#50
blackboxxx macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2008	By the way, it's interesting to note that there are still RSS images in the app bundle, and they even have retina versions. Attached Thumbnails __________________ about 6 stickers with  on them
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